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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 Max Duncker

by Alfred John Church

by Henry Houssaye

by Jesse Benedict Carter

by Sister Mary Rosaria

by Jesse Walter Fewkes

by Cornelius Tacitus

by Edward Gibbon

by Suetonius

by Thucydides

by Cesare Cantù

by Heinrich Brugsch

by Emil Zilliacus

by Flavius Josephus

by Samuel Dill

by the Elder Pliny

by Polybius

by King of Babylonia Hammurabi

by Donald A. (Donald Alexander) Mackenzie

by active 6th century B.C. Sunzi, Qi Wu

by W. H. (William Henry) Withrow

by Joseph Cullen Ayer

by Xenophon

by John Burnet

by George Grote

by William Shakespeare

by Theodor Mommsen

by Frank Frost Abbott

by Delphian Society

by Andrew Lang

by George H. Filian

by G. (Gaston) Maspero

by Cornelius Tacitus

by G. R. S. (George Robert Stow) Mead

by William C. Massey, Carolyn M. Osborne

by Louis Figuier

by Francis Henry Skrine, Sir E. Denison (Edward Denison) Ross

by Flavius Josephus

by Roy C. (Roy Caston) Flickinger

by marquis de Jean-François-Albert du Pouget Nadaillac

by active 2nd century B.C. Zhongshu Dong

by Theophilus G. (Theophilus Goldridge) Pinches

by Ernst Wilhelm Förstemann

by Jennie Hall

by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce

by W. S. W. (William Sandys Wright) Vaux

by Edward Tyson

by Friedrich von Schlegel

by Suetonius

by Lysias

by Frances Delavan Page Jermain

by Charles Rollin

by Various Authors

by Xenophon

by Suetonius

by Guy Dickins

by Suetonius

by Anonymous

by Susan Paxson

by Anonymous

by Alfredo Oriani

by Southwest Parks and Monuments Association

by Cornelius Tacitus

by Walter Woodburn Hyde
by Ferdinando Fontana

by Georges Perrot, Charles Chipiez

by Llewellynn Frederick William Jewitt

by Walter Libby

by Zhitui Yan

by Morris Jastrow

by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott

by James Fergusson

by J. C. (John Clarke) Stobart

by Lewis Spence

by Raphael Holinshed, William Harrison, John Hooker

by Ming Zuoqiu

by Sir Theodore Martin

by L. W. (Leonard William) King

by Gilbert Murray

by C. A. (Charles Adolphus) Row

by Max Duncker

by A. H. (Augustus Henry) Beesly

by Helen McClees, N.Y.) Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York

by Robert S. (Robert Stawell) Ball

by Julius Caesar

by Clifford Herschel Moore