Antiquity
The World's Famous Orations
This is the first volume in the ten volume collection of the world's most famous orations, as compiled by William Jennings Bryant and Franci…
Octavius
This ancient Roman dialogue plays out as a religious debate between the Christian lawyer Octavius, and his close friend, a skeptical pagan n…
The Codes of Hammurabi and Moses
The discovery of the Hammurabi Code is one of the greatest achievements of archaeology, and is of paramount interest, not only to the studen…
Aztec Ruins National Monument
This U.S. National Park Service historical handbook from 1962 introduces the reader to the history, geography, and archaeology of the Aztec …
Predecessors of Cleopatra
This book provides such information as was known at the onset of the 20th Century about Egyptian queens in antiquity. Much has been learned …
The Boys' and Girls' Pliny
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 …
Ancient Achievements
The third book in the Beacon Lights of History series, Lord discusses achievements such as the formation of laws, the development of the fin…
Tribal Custom in Anglo-Saxon Law
Explores the evolution of law during the period of early medieval England and the influence of tribal practices on later Anglo-Saxon legal s…
Kojiki
Of all the mass of Japanese literature, which lies before us as the result of nearly twelve centuries of book-making, the most important mon…
A History of the Roman Empire from Its Foundation to the Death of Marcus Aureli…
A History of the Roman Empire from Its Foundation to the Death of Marcus Aurelius offers a comprehensive exploration of the Roman Empire's e…
Les origines
Ouvrage collectif sous la direction d'Ernest Lavisse et Alfred Rambaud.«Le présent volume n'est que le tome premier d'un ouvrag…
Characters and Events of Roman History
Guglielmo Ferrero was an Italian historian and journalist, and this book contains his Lowell Lectures, presented in 1908 at the Lowell Insti…
Historia de Heródoto
Las Historias de Heródoto de Halicarnaso (484–después del 430 a. C.) es una obra que tiene como objetivo narrar las Guerras M&…
Historia de Heródoto
Refiere Heródoto en su cuarto libro de las historias, las dos expediciones de los persas contra los Escitas y la Libia. - Summary by …
On the Nature of the Gods
De Natura Deorum (On the Nature of the Gods) outlines Stoic, Epicurean and Academic (Skeptical) views on religious questions. Problems discu…
Divine Names
CORPUS AREOPAGITICUM · CORPUS DIONYSIACUMSaint Dionysius the Areopagite · Διονύσιος ὁ ἈρεοπαγίτηςTranslated by Clarence Edwin …
Hannibal and the Crisis of the Struggle Between Carthage and Rome
Hannibal, like Napoleon, towers over all the figures of an age of war in its grandest aspects, and of the shock of nations in conflict. We…
Speeches Against Catilina
This volume contains the four speeches delivered by Cicero in 63 BC, when he was a consul, against the conspiracy headed by L. Sergius Catil…
Historia de Heródoto
Histieo continúa induciendo a los Jonios a batirse contra los Persas. Derrota de la armada jonia y toma de Mileto. La armada persa se…
Compendio de la Historia de la Literatura
Escrito para la enseñanza en el Instituto Nacional, este compendio comprende la literatura antigua del Oriente y la literatura griega…