  The following works are recommended to the student who desires a more complete account of the nations of antiquity. Rawlinson’s History of the Five Great Monarchies of the Ancient Eastern World. Wilkinson’s Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians. Heeren’s Researches into the Politics, Commerce, etc., of the Ancient World. Niebuhr’s Lectures on Ancient History. Layard’s Nineveh. Milman’s History of the Jews. Stanley’s History of the Jewish Church. Josephus’s Jewish Antiquities. Herodotus. (Rawlinson’s translation, with illustrative essays, is incomparably the best.) Xenophon’s CyropÆdia, Anabasis, and Memorabilia. Grote’s History of Greece. Curtius’s History of Greece. Dr. Wm. Smith’s History of Greece, in a single volume. Bulwer’s Athens: its Rise and Fall. St. John’s The Hellenes: the Manners and Customs of Ancient Greece. Creasy’s Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World. Niebuhr’s History of Rome. Arnold’s History of Rome. Mommsen’s History of Rome. Forsyth’s Life of Cicero. Selections from Cicero’s Orations. CÆsar’s Commentaries. Life of CÆsar, by Napoleon III. Merivale’s History of the Romans under the Empire. Gibbon’s History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Among Stories, Poems, and Dramas illustrative of Ancient History, the following are recommended—the first three especially to the youngest readers. Kingsley’s “Heroes.” Hawthorne’s “Wonder-book” and “Tanglewood Tales.” Mrs. Child’s “Philothea.” Becker’s “Charicles” and “Gallus.” Macaulay’s “Lays of Ancient Rome.” Ware’s “Zenobia,” “Julian,” and “Probus.” Mrs. Charles’s “Victory of the Vanquished.” Kingsley’s “Hypatia.” Shakespeare’s “Coriolanus,” “Julius CÆsar,” and “Antony and Cleopatra.” Among collections of Engravings, the following should especially be sought. “Description of Egypt,” made by the Commission of savans who accompanied the French army in 1798. Commonly called “Napoleon’s Egypt.” 9 vols. Text, and 14 folio vols. Plates. Fergusson’s “Palaces of Nineveh and Persepolis Restored.” Fergusson’s “Illustrated Handbook of Architecture.” Botta’s “Monuments of Nineveh.” Layard’s “Monuments of Nineveh.” Penrose’s “Athenian Architecture.” Stuart’s “Antiquities of Athens.” Canina’s “Edifices of Ancient Rome.” |
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