History - Ancient

The Catacombs of Rome, and Their Testimony Relative to Primitive Christianity

W. H. Withrow

The book is a scholarly survey of Rome’s Christian catacombs, written by William Henry Withrow to fill a gap…

The Bible, King James Version, Complete

The Odyssey of Homer

Homer

The volume presents a scholarly overview of the many English renderings of Homer’s Odyssey, tracing how each…

Commentary Upon the Maya-Tzental Perez Codex with a Concluding Note Upon the Linguistic Problem of the Maya Glyphs

William Gates

The work is a scholarly commentary on the Maya‑Tzental Perez Codex, authored by William E.

Cicero and his friends: A study of Roman society in the time of Caesar

Gaston Boissier

The work is a scholarly study of Roman society in the age of Caesar, focusing on Cicero and his circle.

History of Julius Cæsar, Vol. 1 of 2

Emperor of the French Napoleon III

The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended To which is Prefix'd, A Short Chronicle from the First Memory of Things in Europe, to the Conquest of Persia by Alexander the Great

Isaac Newton

The work is a scholarly chronicle that sets out to revise the ancient timelines of the great kingdoms of…

Familiar Studies in Homer

Agnes M. Clerke

Familiar Studies in Homer is a scholarly yet accessible survey that seeks to bridge the gap between recent…

Toledo: an historical and descriptive account of the "City of generations"

Albert Frederick Calvert

Albert Frederick Calvert’s work is a compact, illustrated survey of Toledo’s layered past, positioned as one…

Against Apion

Flavius Josephus

Flavius Josephus’ Against Apion is a polemical apologetic work in which the Jewish historian sets out to…

The Historical Child Paidology; The Science of the Child

Oscar Chrisman

Oscar Chrisman’s work is a scholarly survey that treats the child as a distinct field of scientific inquiry,…

A History of Art in Ancient Egypt, Vol. 1 (of 2)

Perrot, Georges; Chipiez, Charles

The work is a scholarly survey of Egyptian visual culture, produced by the classicist Georges Perrot and the…

Tacitus on Germany

Cornelius Tacitus

Tacitus’s “Germany” is a concise ethnographic treatise attached to the Roman historian’s minor works,…

The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 5 (of 6)

the Elder Pliny

Discoveries Among the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon

Austen Henry Layard

This work is an abridged version of Austen Henry Layard’s extensive travel narrative of his…

Our Arctic province: Alaska and the Seal Islands

Henry Wood Elliott

The work is a sprawling survey of Alaska’s geography, natural history, and human societies as seen through…

Mosaics of Grecian History

Willson, Marcius; Wilson, Robert Pierpont

The work is a scholarly survey of Greek history that begins with a polemic on the shortcomings of…

History of the Wars, Books I and II: The Persian War

Procopius

Procopius of Caesarea presents his History of the Wars as a meticulous record of the campaigns waged by…

History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Vol. I

John Colin Dunlop

The work is a scholarly survey of Roman literary development from its beginnings through the Augustan era,…

The Reign of Tiberius, Out of the First Six Annals of Tacitus; With His Account of Germany, and Life of Agricola

Cornelius Tacitus

The volume presents the opening books of Tacitus’s Annals, focusing on the reign of Tiberius, together with…

Illuminated manuscripts in classical and mediaeval times, their art and their technique

J. H. Middleton

The book is a scholarly survey of illuminated manuscripts from antiquity to the sixteenth‑century advent of…

Ancient society: or, Researches in the lines of human progress from savagery, through barbarism to civilization

Lewis Henry Morgan

Lewis Henry Morgan’s Ancient Society is a scholarly treatise that maps humanity’s long‑term development from…

Pistis Sophia

The work is a scholarly edition of the Coptic manuscript known as the Pistis Sophia, a collection of early…

The Greek orators

J. F. Dobson

The Greek Orators is a concise survey of the principal Athenian speakers, arranged by chapter from the…