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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 James Augustus St. John

by Anthony Trollope

by Aulus Cornelius Celsus

by Edward (Edward A.) Foord, Gordon Home

by Augustus Le Plongeon

by John B. (John Benjamin) Firth

by Henri Loeb

by Gabriel Bonnot de Mably

by W. M. Flinders (William Matthew Flinders) Petrie

by John M. (John Mason) Tyler

by J. H. (Joseph Harvey) Ward

by Theodor Mommsen

by Arthur E. P. Brome (Arthur Edward Pearse Brome) Weigall

by Anonymous

by active 150 B.C. Ying Han

by Plato

by William J. Smyth

by Martin I. (Martin Ingham) Townsend

by H. A. (Henry Abraham) Henry

by R. (Rommert) Casimir

by T. R. (Terrot Reaveley) Glover

by F. W. (Frederic William) Farrar

by James Baikie

by Aristotle

by Aristotle

by John Hewitt

by Percy S. P. (Percy Stuart Peache) Handcock

by John Fiske

by T. E. (Thomas Edward) Thorpe

by Amelia B. Edwards

by Augusto Filipe Simões

by William Shakespeare

by Sir E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis) Budge

by Alexander Van Millingen

by Morris Jastrow

by James Ward

by J. B. de (Jacques-Benjamin) Saint-Victor

by W. D. (William Dool) Killen

by Karl Kiesewetter

by Mary Platt Parmele

by George Grote

by John Henry Blunt

by Guglielmo Ferrero

by S. H. M. (Samuel Hawkins Marshall) Byers

by Frederick Ross

by C. (Carl) Witt, Xenophon

by C.-F. (Constantin-François) Volney

by Thucydides

by Edward Hutton

by Fernandes Costa

by Mesa Verde Museum Association

by United States. National Park Service

by United States. National Park Service

by Jacob Fredrik Lagervall

by John D. (John Denison) Baldwin

by Elbert Hubbard

by George Coffey

by George Grote

by Homer

by Sir E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis) Budge

by Marcius Willson, Robert Pierpont Wilson

by Sir Edward Shepherd Creasy

by active 1695-1711 Chengquan Wu, active 1678-1695 Dazhi Wu

by W. E. (William Ewart) Gladstone

by Edward Gibbon

by W. T. (Walter Terence) Stace

by Guangxian Sun

by Walter Richard Cassels

by Sir George Charles Vincent Holmes

by Georges Perrot, Charles Chipiez

by Sir Thomas Little Heath

by Sir Charles Lyell

by Emperor of the French Napoleon III

by E. Norman (Edward Norman) Gardiner

by Max Duncker

by Ermete Pierotti

by William Elliot Griffis

by Jacob Abbott

by Walter Besant

by Charles Kingsley

by Gaston Tissandier

by Glen W. Watson

by Arthur Thomas Malkin

by Heinrich Schliemann

by Charles Morris

by Demosthenes

by J. P. (John Pentland) Mahaffy

by Marcus Terentius Varro

by Thucydides

by Herodotus