Antiquity
Octavius
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Marcus Minucius Felix
This ancient Roman dialogue plays out as a religious debate between the Christian lawyer Octavius, and his close friend, a skeptical pagan n…
Stories of the Wars of the Jews
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Charlotte Maria Tucker
Stories of the Wars of the Jews from the Babylonish captivity, to the destruction of Jerusalem by Titus is a historical narrative spanning J…
The Golden Bough. A Study in Magic and Religion. Part 4. Adonis Attis Osiris. V…
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James Frazer
The fifth volume and the first of two in the fourth part of Frazer's seminal work on the evolution of belief deals with the semi mythologica…
Greek Athletics
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Frederick Adam Wright
The history of Greek athletics as it pertains to the Olympics. Describes various activities such as boxing, wrestling, etc. and accounts fro…
The Book of the Ancient Greeks
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Dorothy Mills
An Introduction to the History and Civilization of Greece from the Coming of the Greeks to the Conquest of Corinth by Rome in 146 B.C.The sp…
The Empresses of Rome
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Joseph Martin Mccabe and Joseph Martin McCabe
The story of Imperial Rome has been told frequently and impressively in our literature, and few chapters in the long chronicle of man’s deed…
Rome and Carthage: The Punic Wars
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Reginald Bosworth Smith
The Punic Wars (264-146 B.C.) were a series of conflicts between the rapidly expanding Roman Republic and the Phoenician Sea empire, Carthag…
Early Greek Philosophy
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Alfred William Benn
"Man is the measure of all things," said the early Greek philosopher, Protagoras of Abdera. It was in this spirit of humanistic se…
The Boys' and Girls' Pliny Vol. 3
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Pliny the Elder
The Natural History of Pliny the Elder is one of the largest single works to have survived from the Roman Empire. The full work consists of …
Dead Men Tell Tales
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Harry Rimmer
"Dead men tell no tales" was a common adage before the days of forensic science. In this book, the well-known evangelist and scien…
The History of Rome, volume 3
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Titus Livius
The History of Rome (Ab Urbe Condita) is a history of ancient Rome, written in Latin by Livy (Titus Livius) between 27 and 9 BC, covering th…
Alexander the Great
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Ada Russell
A relatively brief history of the life and conquests of Alexander the Great. - Summary by KevinS
The Golden Bough. A Study in Magic and Religion. Part 4. Adonis Attis Osiris. V…
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James Frazer
The sixth volume in the Golden Bough. Frazer continues into the second part of the compilation of analogies dealing with the recurring theme…
The Athenian Empire
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George William Cox
The British historian, George W. Cox writes that the "whole duration of the Athenian empire extends over little more than two generatio…
The History of Rome, volume 2
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Titus Livius
The History of Rome (Ab Urbe Condita) is a history of ancient Rome, written in Latin by Livy (Titus Livius) between 27 and 9 BC, covering th…
Hildebrand and his Times
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William Richard Ward Stephens
W.R.W. Stephens, the Anglican Dean of Winchester, writes a short, lively biography of the great church reformer, Hildebrand of Sovana (1015-…
Stonehenge, a Temple Restor'd to the British Druids
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William Stukeley
Stonehenge in Wiltshire, England never fails to amaze and fascinate; and has been the subject of speculation, research and investigation for…
History Of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Vol. 4
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Gaston Maspero
History Of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria is the masterwork of one of the fathers of modern egyptology. This work, in t…
The History of the Church of Christ: Century III
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Joseph Milner
It is certain, that from our Saviour's time to the present, there have ever been persons whose dispositions and lives have been formed by th…
The Gracchi, Marius and Sulla
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A. H. Beesly
During the last half of the second century B.C. Rome was undisputed mistress of the civilized western world. As the British historian, Augus…