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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 Lydia Hoyt Farmer

by C.-F. (Constantin-François) Volney

by Franz Cumont

by Theodore Ayrault Dodge

by Vicente Riva Palacio, Rafael Martinez de la Torre, Juan A. (Juan Antonio) Mateos, Manuel Payno

by Don Watson

by Eva March Tappan

by R. B. (Reginald Bainbridge) Appleton, W. H. S. (William Henry Samuel) Jones

by Domingo Francisco de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Cuauhtlehuanitzin

by Edward Gibbon

by Edward Gibbon

by Julius Krohn

by Demosthenes

by John Lord

by the Elder Pliny

by Albert Augustus Trever

by George Grote

by W. Warde (William Warde) Fowler

by Alfred William Benn

by Henri Frankfort

by Lewis Spence

by Hippocrates

by Charles Bucke

by Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton

by Lewis Spence

by Thomas Davidson

by William Gordon Holmes

by William Ridgeway

by Thomas Okey

by Thomas Hodgkin

by Evelyn S. (Evelyn Shirley) Shuckburgh

by British Museum. Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities

by William Dean Howells

by Robert Grant Watson

by Louis Raphael Nardini

by Isaac Myer

by George Foot Moore

by William Gordon Holmes

by William Tuckwell

by Sir Norman Lockyer

by Marshall H. (Marshall Howard) Saville

by Gotthard Deutsch

by Various Authors

by F. (Francis) Haverfield

by J. A. K. (James Alexander Kerr) Thomson

by G. (Gaston) Maspero

by Jessie Mothersole

by T. A. (Theodore Arthur) Willard

by Sir John William Dawson

by John Stewart Milne

by Charles P. (Charles Pickering) Bowditch

by Jacomy-Régnier

by Anonymous

by Philipp J. J. (Philipp Johann Josef) Valentini

by Edmund F. (Edmund Farwell) Slafter

by Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton

by Anonymous

by Edward Gibbon

by Hans Sohrmann

by Max Kemmerich

by Thucydides

by Edward Gibbon

by M. W. (Max Wilhelm) Meyer

by Louis Heldring

by Herodotus

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

by Jacob Abbott

by Various Authors

by William Smith

by A. H. (Augustus Henry) Keane

by Bishop of Milan Saint Ambrose

by Theophilus G. (Theophilus Goldridge) Pinches

by Tiberius Catius Silius Italicus

by Theodor Mommsen

by Sir Daniel Wilson

by Marcus Tullius Cicero

by active 4th century Eutropius

by T. W. (Thomas William) Allies

by Sir Daniel Wilson

by W. E. (William Ewart) Gladstone

by Camille Jullian

by Mary Agnes Hamilton

by William Stukeley

by Earl of George Edward Stanhope Molyneux Herbert Carnarvon, Howard Carter

by Thomas Henry Huxley

by Frank Stevens

by Edward Wortley Montagu

by Arthur Thomas Malkin

by Mary Platt Parmele

by Arthur Thomas Malkin