The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians and Grecians (Vol. 1 of 6)

About this eBook

Author

Rollin, Charles, 1661-1741

Language

English

LoC Class

D: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere

Subject

History, Ancient

Category

Text

eBook-No.

28558

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/28558

Release Date

April 11, 2009

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Contents — Preface.
2. 2.The Usefulness of Profane History, especially with regard to Religion.
3. 3.Of Religion. — Of the Feasts. — The Panathenea. — Feasts of Bacchus. — The Feast of Eleusis. — Of Auguries, Oracles, &c. — Of Auguries. — Of Oracles — Of the Games and Combats. — Of the Athletæ, or Combatants. — Of Wrestling. — Of Boxing, or the Cestus. — Of the Pancratium. — Of the Discus, or Quoit. — Of the Pentathlum. — Of Races. — Of the honours and rewards granted to the victors. — The different Taste of the Greeks and Romans, in regard to Public Shows. — Of the Prizes of Wit, and the Shows and Representations of the Theatre. — Extraordinary Fondness of the Athenians for the Entertainments of the Stage. Emulation of the Poets in disputing the Prizes in those Representations. A short Idea of Dramatic Poetry. — The Origin and Progress of Tragedy. Poets who excelled in it at Athens; Æschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides. — Of the Old, Middle, and New Comedy. — The Theatre of the Ancients described. — Fondness for Theatrical Representations one of the principal Causes of the Decline, Degeneracy, and Corruption of the Athenian State.
4. 4.Epochas of the Jewish History.
5. 5.Epochas of the Roman History.
6. 6.The Origin and Condition of the Elotæ, or Helots.
7. 7.Lycurgus, the Lacedæmonian Lawgiver
8. 8.War between the Argives and the Lacedæmonians.
9. 9.Wars between the Messenians and Lacedæmonians. — The First Messenian War. — The Second Messenian War.
10. 10.I. The Kingdom of Egypt.
11. 11.II. The Kingdom of Syria.
12. 12.III. The Kingdom of Macedonia.
13. 13.IV. The Kingdom of Thrace, and Bithynia, &c. — Kings of Bithynia — Kings of Pergamus — Kings of Pontus. — Kings of Cappadocia. — Kings of Armenia. — Kings of Epirus. — Tyrants of Heraclea. — Kings of Syracuse. — Other Kings.
14. 14.Catalogue of the Editions of the principal Greek Authors cited in this Work. — Book The First. The Ancient History Of The Egyptians.
15. 15.Part The First. Description of Egypt: with an Account of whatever is most curious and remarkable in that Country. — Chapter I. Thebais. — Chapter II. Middle Egypt, or Heptanomis. — Chapter III. Lower Egypt.
16. 16.Part The Second. Of the Manners and Customs of the Egyptians. — Chapter I. Concerning The Kings And Government. — Chapter II. Concerning the Priests And Religion Of The Egyptians. — Chapter III. Of The Egyptian Soldiers And War. — Chapter IV. Of Their Arts And Sciences. — Chapter V. Of Their Husbandmen, Shepherds, and Artificers. — Chapter VI. Of The Fertility Of Egypt.
17. 17.Part The Third. The History of the Kings of Egypt. — Book The Second. The History Of The Carthaginians.
18. 18.Part The First. Character, Manners, Religion, And Government Of The Carthaginians.
19. 19.Part The Second. The History of the Carthaginians. — Chapter I. The Foundation of Carthage and its Aggrandizement till the Time of the first Punic War. — Chapter II. The History of Carthage from the first Punic War to its destruction. — Book the Third. The History of the Assyrians.
20. 20.Chapter I. The First Empire of the Assyrians.
21. 21.Chapter II. The Second Assyrian Empire, both of Nineveh and Babylon.
22. 22.Chapter III. The History of the Kingdom of the Medes.
23. 23.Chapter IV. The History of the Lydians. — Maps. — Footnotes

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