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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 Aristophanes

by the Younger Pliny

by Plato

by William Shakespeare

by Henry Smith Williams, Edward Huntington Williams

by Charles Kingsley

by William Shakespeare

by P. L. Jacob

by Charles Kingsley

by Flavius Josephus

by Homer

by Edward Gibbon

by Edward Gibbon

by Edward Gibbon

by Plutarch

by Herodotus

by Flavius Josephus

by George Rawlinson

by Various Authors

by Thomas Inman, M.R.C.S.E. John Newton

by T. R. (Terrot Reaveley) Glover

by Herodotus

by Herodotus

by Xenophon

by Baron Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay

by Homer

by Flavius Josephus

by Ignatius Donnelly

by Emory Adams Allen

by Xenophon

by Theophilus G. (Theophilus Goldridge) Pinches

by Sir Edward Shepherd Creasy

by Edward Gibbon

by marquis de Jean-François-Albert du Pouget Nadaillac

by Edward Gibbon

by Aristotle

by Anonymous

by John William Draper

by Dudley Wright

by Julius Caesar

by Edward Gibbon

by H. E. (Henrietta Elizabeth) Marshall

by Robert S. (Robert Stawell) Ball

by Max Duncker

by Edward Gibbon

by Xenophon

by Marcus Tullius Cicero

by Lina Duff Gordon

by Max Duncker

by Henry Smith Williams, Edward Huntington Williams

by Plutarch

by Max Duncker

by L. W. (Leonard William) King

by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce

by Flavius Josephus

by Herbert Allen Giles

by Thomas Carlyle

by Xenophon

by Max Duncker

by Xenophon

by Flavius Josephus

by F.R.H.S. Joseph Fisher

by J. P. (John Patterson) MacLean

by Thomas Henry Huxley

by Marcus Tullius Cicero

by Faye Huntington

by Frank Justus Miller

by Theodor Mommsen

by Theophilus G. (Theophilus Goldridge) Pinches

by Theodor Mommsen

by John Russell Bartlett

by Theodor Mommsen

by Theodor Mommsen

by Theodor Mommsen

by Anonymous

by Theodor Mommsen

by Herodotus

by W.E. (William Edwy) Vine

by Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison) Brinton

by active 6th century B.C. Sunzi

by Xenophon
by Aristotle

by Xenophon

by J. P. (John Pentland) Mahaffy

by Cornelius Tacitus
by Sir Charles Lyell

by Xenophon

by F. B. (Frank Bigelow) Tarbell

by William Hickling Prescott

by the Younger Pliny

by Richard Maisch

by Francis Parkman
by Suetonius