This is the third volume of Max Duncker's multi-volume history of antiquity, translated by Evelyn Abbott. It surveys the ancient Near East across Assyria, Israel, Egypt, Babylon and Lydia, covering rulers, prophets, wars and the fall of empires. It is worth listening to for a broad nineteenth-century narrative of how these civilizations rose, interacted and declined.
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TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES: Footnotes have been renumbered and moved to the end of the chapters in this HTML version. Obvious errors in punctuation have been silently corrected. Other than that, printer's inconsistencies in spelling, hyphenation, and ligature usage have been retained. THE HISTORY OF ANTIQUITY. FROM THE GERMAN OF PROFESSOR MAX DUNCKER, BY EVELYN ABBOTT, M.A., LL.D., FELLOW AND TUTOR OF BALLIOL COLLEGE, OXFORD. VOL. III.
LONDON: RICHARD BENTLEY & SON, NEW BURLINGTON STREET, Publishers in Ordinary to Her Majesty the Queen. 1879. Bungay: CLAY AND TAYLOR, PRINTERS. CONTENTS. BOOK IV. ASSYRIA. ISRAEL. EGYPT. BABYLON. LYDIA. PAGE CHAPTER I. THE CAMPAIGNS OF TIGLATH PILESAR II 1 CHAPTER II. THE PROPHETS OF ISRAEL 15 CHAPTER III. THE PHARAOHS OF TANIS, BUBASTIS, AND NAPATA 50 CHAPTER IV. THE FIRST COLLISION OF ASSYRIA AND EGYPT 76 CHAPTER V. ASSYRIA IN THE REIGNS OF SARGON AND SENNACHERIB 95 CHAPTER VI. SENNACHERIB IN SYRIA 121
CHAPTER VII. ESARHADDON 143 CHAPTER VIII. ASSURBANIPAL'S WARS AND VICTORIES 161 CHAPTER IX. THE CONSTITUTION, ARMY, AND ART OF THE ASSYRIANS 182 CHAPTER X. JUDAH UNDER MANASSES AND JOSIAH 208 CHAPTER XI. THE NATIONS OF THE NORTH 228 CHAPTER XII. THE FALL OF ASSYRIA 247 CHAPTER XIII. EGYPT UNDER PSAMMETICHUS AND NECHO 295 CHAPTER XIV. THE RESTORATION OF BABYLON 320 CHAPTER XV. NEBUCHADNEZZAR AND HIS SUCCESSORS 356 CHAPTER XVI. EGYPT UNDER THE LAST PHARAOHS 398 CHAPTER XVII. THE OVERTHROW OF THE HERACLEIDS IN LYDIA 414 CHAPTER XVIII. LYDIA UNDER THE MERMNADÆ 427 ASSYRIA.
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