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Step into a world where empires rise on the edge of the sword, laws are carved into the foundations of civilization, and myths blur with the first records of history. From Caesar’s battlefields and Cicero’s thunderous speeches to Assyria, Babylon, Egypt, and Greece, this bookshelf opens the gates to the ancient world in all its grandeur, intrigue, and mystery. Here, prophecy, warfare, religion, and power collide across centuries that still echo today.

by Herodotus

by H. Clay (Henry Clay) Trumbull

by Xenophon

by Mary Macgregor

by W. Lucas (William Lucas) Collins

by J. H. (Joseph Holt) Ingraham

by Harold Whetstone Johnston

by Anonymous

by Marcus Tullius Cicero

by Ammianus Marcellinus

by Procopius

by Lewis Henry Morgan

by Galen

by Flavius Josephus

by Mary Macgregor

by Henry Wood Elliott

by Xenophon

by George Frederick Kunz, Charles Hugh Stevenson

by Heinrich Graetz

by Fustel de Coulanges

by H. A. (Hélène Adeline) Guerber

by Gomes Eannes de Zurara

by Cornelius Tacitus

by Marcus Tullius Cicero

by Edward Gibbon

by Procopius

by J.-B.-J. (Jean-Baptiste-Joseph) Champagnac

by Viktor Rydberg

by Sophus Ruge

by G. (Gaston) Maspero

by Gerhard Rohlfs

by Homer

by Thomas Carlyle

by Théophile Lavallée

by Anonymous

by Bayard Taylor

by Plutarch

by Vatsyayana

by M. Lievevrouw-Coopman

by Herodotus

by Anonymous

by G. (Gaston) Maspero

by Procopius

by Xenophon

by G. (Gaston) Maspero

by Cornelius Tacitus

by Lacy Collison-Morley

by Theodor Mommsen

by Jovan Zujovic

by Petros Vrailas-Armenes

by William Hickling Prescott

by Ernest Arthur Gardner

by Julius Caesar

by Richard Maisch

by Bruno Schulz

by Don G. Wyckoff, D. E. (Dennis E.) Peterson

by Cândido de Figueiredo

by Arrian

by Marcus Tullius Cicero

by Robert F. Pennell

by Edward Gibbon

by Homer

by George Grote

by J. M. (Joseph Mazzini) Wheeler

by Cassius Dio Cocceianus

by Corrado Barbagallo

by L. (Ludwig) Stacke

by Antonio Labriola

by John Addington Symonds

by John Richard Green

by Marcus Tullius Cicero

by Jacob Abbott

by Anonymous

by Samuel Rawson Gardiner

by Plutarch

by Charles E. Moldenke

by Stephen Salisbury

by Ettore Ciccotti

by A. U. (Albert Ulrik) Bååth

by Xenophon

by G. (Gaston) Maspero

by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

by G. (Gaston) Maspero

by G. (Gaston) Maspero

by Norman Bentwich

by P. L. Jacob

by Arthur E. R. (Arthur Edward Romilly) Boak