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The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Book Reviews
Charles RollinDemetrius Phalereus in the government of that republick. His prudent administration. Eutne nes quits Nora. Various expeditions of Antigonusy Seleucus, Ptolemy, and other generals, ...
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A Source Book for Ancient Church History Book Reviews
Joseph Cullen AyerThe value of the sourcebook has long been recognized in the teaching of general history. In ecclesiastical history quite as much use can be made of the same aid in instruction. It ...
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The Legacy of Greece Book Reviews
Various AuthorsThe greatest contribution from the Greeks to civilization is their contribution of medicine. Modern medicine originated in Ancient Greece by a man named Hippocrates. Up until he ca...
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The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci Book Reviews
Leonardo da VinciA collection of papers written in Italian by Leonardo da Vinci , in his characteristic lefthanded mirrorwriting (reading from right to left), including diagrams, drawings and brief...
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The Greek View of Life Book Reviews
Goldsworthy Lowes DickinsonThis book is story with the Greek civilisation beauty perished from the world. Never again has it been possible for man to believe that harmony is in fact the truth of all existenc...
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The Common People of Ancient Rome Book Reviews
Frank Frost AbbottThis book, like the volume on "society and politics in Ancient Rome," deals with the life of the common people, with their language and literature, their occupations and ...
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Darius the Great Book Reviews
Jacob AbbottDarius the Great was the third king of the Persian Achaemenid Empire. He ruled the empire at its peak, when it included much of West Asia, the Caucasus, Central Asia, parts of the ...
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Conspiracy of Catiline and the Jurgurthine War Book Reviews
86 BC-34? BC SallustCatiline, in his youth, had been guilty of many criminal connections, with a virgin of noble birth, with a priestess of Vesta, and of many other offenses of this nature, in defianc...
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The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended Book Reviews
Isaac NewtonThis is a short chronicle from the first memory of things in Europe, to the Conquest of Persia by Alexander the Great.
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Cyrus the Great Book Reviews
Jacob AbbottCyrus the Great, also known as Cyrus the Elder, was the founder of the Achaemenid Empire. Under his rule, the empire embraced all the previous civilized states of the ancient Near ...
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Cicero Book Reviews
William Lucas CollinsWhen we speak, in the language of our title page, of the 'Ancient Classics', we must remember that the word 'ancient' is to be taken with a considerable differe...
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The Story of the Greeks Book Reviews
Hélène Adeline GuerberThis elementary history of Greece is intended for supplementary reading or as a first history textbook for young pupils. It is therefore made up principally of stories about person...
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Cerberus, The Dog of Hades Book Reviews
Maurice BloomfieldThe history of an idea. A collection of thoughts and discussions on Cerberus in art, literature and the myths behind the dog of Hades.
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History of India Book Reviews
Romesh Chunder DuttIn this volume of History of India, the principal object is on the Ancient History of India, an elaborate work of discussions on Indian antiquities. It offers a more realistic and ...
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A Commentary on Herodotus Book Reviews
Walter Wybergh HowThis is a history book. Herodotus has been called by Cicero and other ancient critics `the father of history'. He was in fact the first to make the events of the past the subj...
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Social life at Rome in the Age of Cicero Book Reviews
W. Warde FowlerIf Cicero, the most tenderhearted of Roman public men, could urge the claims of the companies so strongly, and, as in this last letter, without any allusion to the interests of the...
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The Religion of Ancient Egypt Book Reviews
William Matthew Flinders PetrieIt became an immediate bestseller, reprinted in 1888 at home in England and abroad. She travelled throughout Egypt at a time when most women didn’t leave home. One of the pioneerin...
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The Curse of King Tut Book Reviews
Grace YipIn this short book, it includes facts about the discovery of King Tut's tomb and the mysterious things that occurred. It's your turn to discover the secrets.
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The Babylonian Legends of the Creation Book Reviews
Ernest Alfred Wallis BudgeThe Babylonian Legends of the Creation is a study that contains dense information, notes, explanations and the translation of the Seven Tablets, which can be found in the British M...
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Legends of Babylon and Egypt in relation to Hebrew tradition Book Reviews
Leonard William KingThis book, Legends of Babylon and Egypt, contains good historical information on this mysterious and ancient civilization and its influence on the states surrounding the Mediterran...
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Seven wonders of the world Book Reviews
Anders Asplund BerggrenFakta om världens sju underverk från antiken. Inom kort kommer det även publiceras en bok om världens moderna underverk.
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An Account of Egypt Book Reviews
HerodotusHerodotus wrote a nine volume series called The Histories. An Account of Egypt or Euterpe is the second in the series. This is an eyewitness account of life in Egypt written in a s...
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Roman History, Books I-III Book Reviews
Titus LiviusThough nobody doubted that a war was impending from the Tarquins, yet it broke out later than was generally expected; however, liberty was wellnigh lost by fraud and treachery, a t...
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History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Book Reviews
Edward GibbonThe great work of Gibbon is indispensable to the student of history. The literature of Europe offers no substitute for The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. It has obtained und...
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The Egyptian Conception of Immortality Book Reviews
George Andrew ReisnerIt is a history book. Of the nations which have contributed to the direct stream of civilization, Egypt and Mesopotamia are at present believed to be the oldest. The chronological ...
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The Extant Odes of Pindar Book Reviews
518? BC-438? BC PindarIt is as an attempt towards obviating the first of these hindrances to the study of Pindar, the difficulty of his language, that this translation is of course especially intended. ...
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ABCs of Egypt Book Reviews
Mrs. Heidi MorganA sixthgrade, student created, ABC book of ancient Egypt. This book was created after studying ancient Egypt.
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House of John Procter, Witchcraft Martyr, 1692 Book Reviews
William Phineas UphamThis book of ancient history is a True account of one individual, John Procter, who was a victim of sorts in the Salem witchcraft episode. It also tells what happened to John Proct...
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Ancient Egyptian and Greek Looms Book Reviews
Henry Ling RothAncient Egyptian and Greek Looms is a Book of History. This book illustrate that Halifax, which is situated in the heart of the great textile trade of Lancashire and Yorkshire, has...
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A Translation of the New Testament from the original Greek Book Reviews
T. HaweisThis book about the transfuse the spirit of the Original into a Translation must be admitted to be very difficult in any language, peculiarly so where the matters treated of are so...
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Egyptian Ideas of the Future Life Book Reviews
Ernest Alfred Wallis BudgeA study of the complicated ideas of the after life in which the Egyptians were so obsessed. Discussions from the Book of the Dead, as well as the three elements of the Egyptian rel...
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Ancient Greek Literary Letters Book Reviews
Patricia A. RosenmeyerThe first referenece to letter writing occurs in the first text of western literature, Homer's Iliad. From the very beginning, Greeks were enthusiastic letter writers, and let...
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The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria Book Reviews
Morris JastrowBabylonia and Assyria were two great eastern empires before which all the states of Syria and Palestine fell. About their history, we learn partially from the bible and the contemp...
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The Treasury of Ancient Egypt Book Reviews
Arthur E. P. B. WeigallThis volume contains twelve chapters written at various times and in various places each dealing with some subject drawn from the great treasury of Ancient Egypt. From expounding o...
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The Apology Book Reviews
XenophonThis is a history book. The Apology (in full Apology of Socrates to the jury; Greek) is a Socratic dialogue by Xenophon, a student of Socrates. It recounts Socrates' selfdefen...
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Greek in a Nutshell Book Reviews
James StrongA brief history of Greece/Hellas – the land everyone has heard and read so much about – is presented in this book. A most fascinating and splendid experience awaits the reader of s...
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History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Book Reviews
Edward GibbonThey had become weak, outsourcing their duties to defend their Empire to barbarian mercenaries, who then became so numerous and ingrained that they were able to t...
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Ancient Greece Book Reviews
Stephan WeaverThe foundation of democracy, the genesis of the Olympic Games, the cradle of Western thinking; the inspiration of the Renaissancethe world owes Ancient Greece a lot more than one m...
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History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Book Reviews
Edward GibbonThe frontispiece portrait of Gibbon is after Sir Joshua Reynolds, the three engraved folding maps are of the Western and Eastern Roman Empire, and a folding map of Constantinople. ...
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Ancient Egypt Book Reviews
George RawlinsonSurveys the land and people of Egypt before taking the development of the nation through historic chapters. Told in a level of detail to rival Breasted's classic work on Egypt...
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The History of Rome, Book I Book Reviews
Theodor MommsenThe classical historian Theodor Mommsen (1817 1903) published his monumental History of Rome between 1854 and 1856. His work was received with widespread acclaim by the scholarly c...
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The History of Rome, Books 27 to 36 Book Reviews
Titus LiviusThis book contains history of Rome. It contains event history of The first two Punic Wars and also it contains detailed history of The Macedonian and other eastern wars down to 167...
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Germania Book Reviews
Cornelius TacitusLes traités d'ethnologie ont une longue histoire dans la littérature classique et La Germanie s'inscrit parfaitement dans cette tradition établie par des auteurs tels que...
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The Wonders of Pompeii Book Reviews
Marc MonnierThis book tells how Pompeii was like when it was being excavated over 100 years ago.
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Problems in Greek history Book Reviews
J. P. MahaffyIrish classicist John Pentland Mahaffy examines a variety of issues related to understanding the history of the ancient Greeks, from Homer’s time to Alexander’s, in this work publi...
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Ancient Rome Book Reviews
Mary Agnes HamiltonMore than two thousand years ago, at a time when the people in the British Isles and in most parts of Western Europe were living the lives of savages, occupied in fighting...
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Maxims and Opinions of Field-Marshal His Grace the Duke of Wellington, Selected From His Writings and Speeches During a Public Life of More Than Half a Century Book Reviews
Arthur Wellesley WellingtonThis book is history of a Maxims and Opinions of FieldMarshal His Grace the Duke of Wellington, Selected From His Writings and Speeches During a Public Life of More Than Half a Cen...
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The History of the Peloponnesian War Book Reviews
ThucydidesThe history book recounts the 5th century BC war between Sparta and Athens to the year 411 BC.
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History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria in the Light of Recent Discovery Book Reviews
Harry Reginald HallThe work is designed not only for children, but also for older people interested in the story of California, including the tourists who visit the state by the thousand every year. ...
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History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Book Reviews
Edward GibbonThey take as their material the behaviour and decisions that led to the decay and eventual fall of the Roman Empire in the East and West, offering an explanation for why the Roman ...
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The Metatronic Bible Book Reviews
Church FathersThis is the combination of the early books of the Bible which are still canon with the Ethiopian Orthodox Christian Church.
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Egyptian Tales, Translated from the Papyri Book Reviews
William Matthew Flinders PetrieThe book is The Egyptian Tales, Second Series, XVIIIth To XIXth Dynasty Translated From The Papyri, Second Edition. Brief, and in some cases incomplete, stories of magic from ancie...
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History of Phoenicia Book Reviews
George RawlinsonThis book is George Rawlinson's classic account of the Phoenicians, one of the most important and compelling of ancient civilizations.
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Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius Book Reviews
Samuel DillTHE century which separates Nero from Marcus Aurelius is of exceptional interest. The monster or mountebank who ruled the world when it opened was the " Caesar " to whom ...
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History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Book Reviews
Edward GibbonThey take as their material the behaviour and decisions that led to the decay and eventual fall of the Roman Empire in the East and West, offering an explanation for why the Roman ...
Best Paid Ancient Books of 2024
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The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Book Reviews
Charles RollinDemetrius Phalereus in the government of that republick. His prudent administration. Eutne nes quits Nora. Various expeditions of Antigonusy Seleucus, Ptolemy, and other generals, ...
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A Source Book for Ancient Church History Book Reviews
Joseph Cullen AyerThe value of the sourcebook has long been recognized in the teaching of general history. In ecclesiastical history quite as much use can be made of the same aid in instruction. It ...
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The Legacy of Greece Book Reviews
Various AuthorsThe greatest contribution from the Greeks to civilization is their contribution of medicine. Modern medicine originated in Ancient Greece by a man named Hippocrates. Up until he ca...
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The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci Book Reviews
Leonardo da VinciA collection of papers written in Italian by Leonardo da Vinci , in his characteristic lefthanded mirrorwriting (reading from right to left), including diagrams, drawings and brief...
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The Greek View of Life Book Reviews
Goldsworthy Lowes DickinsonThis book is story with the Greek civilisation beauty perished from the world. Never again has it been possible for man to believe that harmony is in fact the truth of all existenc...
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The Common People of Ancient Rome Book Reviews
Frank Frost AbbottThis book, like the volume on "society and politics in Ancient Rome," deals with the life of the common people, with their language and literature, their occupations and ...
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Darius the Great Book Reviews
Jacob AbbottDarius the Great was the third king of the Persian Achaemenid Empire. He ruled the empire at its peak, when it included much of West Asia, the Caucasus, Central Asia, parts of the ...
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Conspiracy of Catiline and the Jurgurthine War Book Reviews
86 BC-34? BC SallustCatiline, in his youth, had been guilty of many criminal connections, with a virgin of noble birth, with a priestess of Vesta, and of many other offenses of this nature, in defianc...
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The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended Book Reviews
Isaac NewtonThis is a short chronicle from the first memory of things in Europe, to the Conquest of Persia by Alexander the Great.
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Cyrus the Great Book Reviews
Jacob AbbottCyrus the Great, also known as Cyrus the Elder, was the founder of the Achaemenid Empire. Under his rule, the empire embraced all the previous civilized states of the ancient Near ...
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Cicero Book Reviews
William Lucas CollinsWhen we speak, in the language of our title page, of the 'Ancient Classics', we must remember that the word 'ancient' is to be taken with a considerable differe...
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The Story of the Greeks Book Reviews
Hélène Adeline GuerberThis elementary history of Greece is intended for supplementary reading or as a first history textbook for young pupils. It is therefore made up principally of stories about person...
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Cerberus, The Dog of Hades Book Reviews
Maurice BloomfieldThe history of an idea. A collection of thoughts and discussions on Cerberus in art, literature and the myths behind the dog of Hades.
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History of India Book Reviews
Romesh Chunder DuttIn this volume of History of India, the principal object is on the Ancient History of India, an elaborate work of discussions on Indian antiquities. It offers a more realistic and ...
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A Commentary on Herodotus Book Reviews
Walter Wybergh HowThis is a history book. Herodotus has been called by Cicero and other ancient critics `the father of history'. He was in fact the first to make the events of the past the subj...
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Social life at Rome in the Age of Cicero Book Reviews
W. Warde FowlerIf Cicero, the most tenderhearted of Roman public men, could urge the claims of the companies so strongly, and, as in this last letter, without any allusion to the interests of the...
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The Religion of Ancient Egypt Book Reviews
William Matthew Flinders PetrieIt became an immediate bestseller, reprinted in 1888 at home in England and abroad. She travelled throughout Egypt at a time when most women didn’t leave home. One of the pioneerin...
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The Curse of King Tut Book Reviews
Grace YipIn this short book, it includes facts about the discovery of King Tut's tomb and the mysterious things that occurred. It's your turn to discover the secrets.
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The Babylonian Legends of the Creation Book Reviews
Ernest Alfred Wallis BudgeThe Babylonian Legends of the Creation is a study that contains dense information, notes, explanations and the translation of the Seven Tablets, which can be found in the British M...
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Legends of Babylon and Egypt in relation to Hebrew tradition Book Reviews
Leonard William KingThis book, Legends of Babylon and Egypt, contains good historical information on this mysterious and ancient civilization and its influence on the states surrounding the Mediterran...
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Seven wonders of the world Book Reviews
Anders Asplund BerggrenFakta om världens sju underverk från antiken. Inom kort kommer det även publiceras en bok om världens moderna underverk.
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An Account of Egypt Book Reviews
HerodotusHerodotus wrote a nine volume series called The Histories. An Account of Egypt or Euterpe is the second in the series. This is an eyewitness account of life in Egypt written in a s...
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Roman History, Books I-III Book Reviews
Titus LiviusThough nobody doubted that a war was impending from the Tarquins, yet it broke out later than was generally expected; however, liberty was wellnigh lost by fraud and treachery, a t...
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History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Book Reviews
Edward GibbonThe great work of Gibbon is indispensable to the student of history. The literature of Europe offers no substitute for The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. It has obtained und...
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The Egyptian Conception of Immortality Book Reviews
George Andrew ReisnerIt is a history book. Of the nations which have contributed to the direct stream of civilization, Egypt and Mesopotamia are at present believed to be the oldest. The chronological ...
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The Extant Odes of Pindar Book Reviews
518? BC-438? BC PindarIt is as an attempt towards obviating the first of these hindrances to the study of Pindar, the difficulty of his language, that this translation is of course especially intended. ...
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ABCs of Egypt Book Reviews
Mrs. Heidi MorganA sixthgrade, student created, ABC book of ancient Egypt. This book was created after studying ancient Egypt.
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House of John Procter, Witchcraft Martyr, 1692 Book Reviews
William Phineas UphamThis book of ancient history is a True account of one individual, John Procter, who was a victim of sorts in the Salem witchcraft episode. It also tells what happened to John Proct...
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Ancient Egyptian and Greek Looms Book Reviews
Henry Ling RothAncient Egyptian and Greek Looms is a Book of History. This book illustrate that Halifax, which is situated in the heart of the great textile trade of Lancashire and Yorkshire, has...
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A Translation of the New Testament from the original Greek Book Reviews
T. HaweisThis book about the transfuse the spirit of the Original into a Translation must be admitted to be very difficult in any language, peculiarly so where the matters treated of are so...
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Egyptian Ideas of the Future Life Book Reviews
Ernest Alfred Wallis BudgeA study of the complicated ideas of the after life in which the Egyptians were so obsessed. Discussions from the Book of the Dead, as well as the three elements of the Egyptian rel...
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Ancient Greek Literary Letters Book Reviews
Patricia A. RosenmeyerThe first referenece to letter writing occurs in the first text of western literature, Homer's Iliad. From the very beginning, Greeks were enthusiastic letter writers, and let...
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The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria Book Reviews
Morris JastrowBabylonia and Assyria were two great eastern empires before which all the states of Syria and Palestine fell. About their history, we learn partially from the bible and the contemp...
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The Treasury of Ancient Egypt Book Reviews
Arthur E. P. B. WeigallThis volume contains twelve chapters written at various times and in various places each dealing with some subject drawn from the great treasury of Ancient Egypt. From expounding o...
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The Apology Book Reviews
XenophonThis is a history book. The Apology (in full Apology of Socrates to the jury; Greek) is a Socratic dialogue by Xenophon, a student of Socrates. It recounts Socrates' selfdefen...
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Greek in a Nutshell Book Reviews
James StrongA brief history of Greece/Hellas – the land everyone has heard and read so much about – is presented in this book. A most fascinating and splendid experience awaits the reader of s...
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History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Book Reviews
Edward GibbonThey had become weak, outsourcing their duties to defend their Empire to barbarian mercenaries, who then became so numerous and ingrained that they were able to t...
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Ancient Greece Book Reviews
Stephan WeaverThe foundation of democracy, the genesis of the Olympic Games, the cradle of Western thinking; the inspiration of the Renaissancethe world owes Ancient Greece a lot more than one m...
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History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Book Reviews
Edward GibbonThe frontispiece portrait of Gibbon is after Sir Joshua Reynolds, the three engraved folding maps are of the Western and Eastern Roman Empire, and a folding map of Constantinople. ...
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Ancient Egypt Book Reviews
George RawlinsonSurveys the land and people of Egypt before taking the development of the nation through historic chapters. Told in a level of detail to rival Breasted's classic work on Egypt...
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The History of Rome, Book I Book Reviews
Theodor MommsenThe classical historian Theodor Mommsen (1817 1903) published his monumental History of Rome between 1854 and 1856. His work was received with widespread acclaim by the scholarly c...
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The History of Rome, Books 27 to 36 Book Reviews
Titus LiviusThis book contains history of Rome. It contains event history of The first two Punic Wars and also it contains detailed history of The Macedonian and other eastern wars down to 167...
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Germania Book Reviews
Cornelius TacitusLes traités d'ethnologie ont une longue histoire dans la littérature classique et La Germanie s'inscrit parfaitement dans cette tradition établie par des auteurs tels que...
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The Wonders of Pompeii Book Reviews
Marc MonnierThis book tells how Pompeii was like when it was being excavated over 100 years ago.
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Problems in Greek history Book Reviews
J. P. MahaffyIrish classicist John Pentland Mahaffy examines a variety of issues related to understanding the history of the ancient Greeks, from Homer’s time to Alexander’s, in this work publi...
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Ancient Rome Book Reviews
Mary Agnes HamiltonMore than two thousand years ago, at a time when the people in the British Isles and in most parts of Western Europe were living the lives of savages, occupied in fighting...
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Maxims and Opinions of Field-Marshal His Grace the Duke of Wellington, Selected From His Writings and Speeches During a Public Life of More Than Half a Century Book Reviews
Arthur Wellesley WellingtonThis book is history of a Maxims and Opinions of FieldMarshal His Grace the Duke of Wellington, Selected From His Writings and Speeches During a Public Life of More Than Half a Cen...
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The History of the Peloponnesian War Book Reviews
ThucydidesThe history book recounts the 5th century BC war between Sparta and Athens to the year 411 BC.
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History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria in the Light of Recent Discovery Book Reviews
Harry Reginald HallThe work is designed not only for children, but also for older people interested in the story of California, including the tourists who visit the state by the thousand every year. ...
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History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Book Reviews
Edward GibbonThey take as their material the behaviour and decisions that led to the decay and eventual fall of the Roman Empire in the East and West, offering an explanation for why the Roman ...
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The Metatronic Bible Book Reviews
Church FathersThis is the combination of the early books of the Bible which are still canon with the Ethiopian Orthodox Christian Church.
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Egyptian Tales, Translated from the Papyri Book Reviews
William Matthew Flinders PetrieThe book is The Egyptian Tales, Second Series, XVIIIth To XIXth Dynasty Translated From The Papyri, Second Edition. Brief, and in some cases incomplete, stories of magic from ancie...
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History of Phoenicia Book Reviews
George RawlinsonThis book is George Rawlinson's classic account of the Phoenicians, one of the most important and compelling of ancient civilizations.
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Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius Book Reviews
Samuel DillTHE century which separates Nero from Marcus Aurelius is of exceptional interest. The monster or mountebank who ruled the world when it opened was the " Caesar " to whom ...
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History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Book Reviews
Edward GibbonThey take as their material the behaviour and decisions that led to the decay and eventual fall of the Roman Empire in the East and West, offering an explanation for why the Roman ...
