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| Author: | Lillie M . Shaw Botsford George Willis Botsford |
| Category: | Enjoying Life [Edit] |
| Language: | English |
| Publisher: | New York : The Macmillan Company |
| Release Date: | 01 Jan 1912 |
| Pages: | 612 |
| File Size: | 15.2 MB |
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| Rank: | 337,786 No 1 most popular |
| Short link: | Copy |
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The Author Book A Source-book Of Ancient History .
George Willis Botsford, Lillie M . Shaw Botsford
Book digitized by Google from the library of University of Michigan and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.
x, 594 pages ; 20 cm
Includes bibliographical references
"This volume may be used in connection with any course in ancient history. It is especially intended, however, to serve as an auxiliary to Botsford's ʻHistory of the ancient world'."--Preface
Book I. The Oriental nations -- Introduction to the sources -- Egypt -- The Tigris-Euphrates Valley -- Syria: The Phoenecians and the HEbrews -- The Median and Persian empires -- Book II. Hellas -- Introduction to the sources -- The Cretan and Mycenaean civilizations -- The epic of Homeric age -- Myth and religion -- The city-state and its development -- Economy and colonization -- The rise of SParta and the Peloponnesian league -- Athens: From monarchy to democracy -- The poets and the philosophers -- The Ionic revolt -- The war between Greece and Persia -- The Dellian confederarcy and the Athenian empire -- The age of Pericles -- The Peloponnesian war to the Scicilian expedition -- From the Sicilian expediton tot he end of the war -- Sicily: The tyrant and the liberator -- The supremacy of Sparta -- Thebes attempts to gain the supremacy -- The rise of Macedon -- Alexander's empire -- Greek life and thought -- The Hellenistic age -- Book III. Rome -- Introduction to the sources -- Italy and her people -- Rome under the kings -- The early republic: i. The Plebeians win their rights -- The early republic: ii. Rome becomes supreme in Italy -- Roman organization: Progress in culutre -- The first and second Punic wars -- The end of Greek freedom -- Growth of plutocracy, progress in civilization -- The revolution: i. From plutocracy to military rule -- The revolution: ii. The military power in conflict with the repubic -- The founding of the principate, Augustus and Tiberius -- From principate to monarchy: The Claudian and Flavian princes -- The period of the five good emperors -- Early history of Christianity -- The absolute monarchy -- Some aspects of the decline -- The northern barbarians -- Roman life under the late empire -- The Mohammedans and the Frankish power
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