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The Great Events by Famous Historians [Volumes 1-14]
- Автор: Gutenberg
- Год: 1905
- Язык: английский
- Жанр: История
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The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 01
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 02 / (From the Rise of Greece to the Christian Era)
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 03
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 04
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 05 / (From Charlemagne to Frederick Barbarossa)
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 06 / (From Barbarossa to Dante)
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 08 / The Later Renaissance: from Gutenberg to the Reformation
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 09
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 10
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 11
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 12
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 13
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 14
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 17
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 21 / The Recent Days (1910-1914)
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The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Great Events by Famous Historians, Vol. 2, by Various, Edited by Rossiter Johnson
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Title: The Great Events by Famous Historians, Vol. 2
Author: Various
Release Date: November 17, 2003 [eBook #10114]
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***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE GREAT EVENTS BY FAMOUS HISTORIANS,
VOL. 2***
E-text prepared by Juliet Sutherland, David King,
and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team
THE GREAT EVENTS BY FAMOUS HISTORIANS
VOLUME II
A COMPREHENSIVE AND READABLE ACCOUNT OF THE WORLD'S HISTORY. EMPHASIZING THE MORE IMPORTANT EVENTS, AND PRESENTING THESE AS COMPLETE NARRATIVES IN THE MASTER-WORDS OF THE MOST EMINENT HISTORIANS
NON-SECTARIAN NON-PARTISAN NON-SECTIONAL
ON THE PLAN EVOLVED FROM A CONSENSUS OF OPINIONS GATHERED FROM THE MOST DISTINGUISHED SCHOLARS OF AMERICA AND EUROPE, INCLUDING BRIEF INTRODUCTIONS BY SPECIALISTS TO CONNECT AND EXPLAIN THE CELEBRATED NARRATIVES, ARRANGED CHRONOLOGICALLY, WITH THOROUGH INDICES, BIBLIOGRAPHIES, CHRONOLOGIES, AND COURSES OF READING
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
ROSSITER JOHNSON, LL.D.
ASSOCIATE EDITORS
CHARLES F. HORNE, Ph.D.
JOHN RUDD, LL.D.
COPYRIGHT, 1905
The binding of this volume is a facsimile of the original on exhibition in the Bibliothèque Nationale.
It was executed by the Royal Binder, Clovis Eve, for Marie de' Médicis, Queen Consort of Henry IV of France. She was a great lover of fine arts, and especially of rich bindings. The one here shown was her special pride. It shows her arms—the arms of France and Tuscany—surrounded with the cordelière, the sign of her widowhood, accompanied by the monogram M.M. (Marie Médicis). She was exiled by Cardinal Richelieu in 1631.
CONTENTS
An Outline Narrative of the Great Events, CHARLES F. HORNE
Institution and Fall of the Decemvirate in Rome (B.C. 450), HENRY G. LIDDELL
Pericles Rules in Athens (B.C. 444), PLUTARCH
Great Plague at Athens (B.C. 430), GEORGE GROTE
Defeat of the Athenians at Syracuse (B.C. 413), SIR EDWARD S. CREASY
Retreat of the Ten Thousand Greeks (B.C. 401-399), XENOPHON
Condemnation and Death of Socrates (B.C. 399), PLATO
Brennus Burns Rome (B.C. 388), BARTHOLD GEORG NIEBUHR
Tartar Invasion of China by Meha (B.C. 341), DEMETRIUS CHARLES BOULGER
Alexander Reduces Tyre, Later Founds Alexandria (B.C. 332), OLIVER GOLDSMITH
The Battle of Arbela (B.C. 331), SIR EDWARD S. CREASY
First Battle Between Greeks and Romans (B.C. 280-279), PLUTARCH
The Punic Wars (B.C. 264-219-149), FLORUS
Battle of the Metaurus (B.C. 2O7), SIR EDWARD S. CREASY
Scipio Africanus Crushes Hannibal at Zama and Subjugates Carthage (B.C. 202), LIVY
Judas Maccabaeus Liberates Judea (B.C. 165-141), JOSEPHUS
The Gracchi and Their Reforms (B.C. 133), THEODOR MOMMSEN
Caesar Conquers Gaul (B.C. 58-50), NAPOLEON III
Roman Invasion and Conquest of Britain (B.C. 55-A.D. 79), OLIVER GOLDSMITH
Cleopatra's Conquest of Caesar and Antony (B.C. 51-30), JOHN P. MAHAFFY
Assassination of Caesar (B.C. 44), NIEBUHR PLUTARCH
Rome Becomes a Monarchy, Death of Antony and Cleopatra (B.C. 44-30), HENRY GEORGE LIDDELL
Germans under Arminius Revolt Against Rome (A.D. 9), SIR EDWARD S. CREASY
Universal Chronology (B.C. 450-A.D. 12), JOHN RUDD
ILLUSTRATIONS
VOLUME II
Blind Appius Claudius led into the Roman Senate Chamber to vote on the
proposition of peace or war with Pyrrhus (page 174),
Painting by Prof, A. Maccari.
Oracle of Delphi,
Painting by Claudius Harper.
Death of Alexander the Great after a prolonged debauch,
Painting by Carl von Piloty.
AN OUTLINE NARRATIVE
TRACING BRIEFLY THE CAUSES, CONNECTIONS, AND CONSEQUENCES OF
THE GREAT EVENTS
(FROM THE RISE OF GREECE TO THE CHRISTIAN ERA)
CHARLES F. HORNE, Ph.D.
Earth's upward struggle has been baffled by so many stumbles that critics have not been lacking to suggest that we do not advance at all, but only swing in circles, like a squirrel in its cage. Certain it is that each ancient civilization seemed to bear in itself the seeds of its own destruction. Yet it may be held with equal truth that each new power, rising above the ruins of the last, held something nobler, was borne upward by some truth its rival could not reach.
At no period is this more evident than in the five centuries immediately preceding the Christian era. Persia, Greece, Carthage, Rome, each in turn was with some justice proclaimed lord of the world; each in turn felt the impulse of her glory and advanced rapidly in culture and knowledge of the arts; and each in turn succumbed to the temptations that beset unlimited success. They degenerated not only in physical strength, but in moral honesty.
Let us recognize, however, that the term "world-ruler" as applied to even the greatest of these nations has but a restricted sense. When the Persian monarch called himself lord of the sun and moon, he only meant in a figurative way that he was acquainted with no other king so powerful as himself; that beyond his own dominions he heard only of feeble colonies, and beyond those the wilderness. Alexander, when he sighed for more worlds to conquer, had in reality made himself lord of less than a quarter of Asia and of about one-sixtieth part of Europe.
No man and no nation has ever yet been intrusted with the government of the entire globe. None has proved sufficiently fitted for the giant task. Each empire has been, as it were, but an experiment; and beyond the border line of seas and deserts which ringed each boastful conqueror, there were always other races developing along slower, and it may be surer, lines.
In those old days our world was in truth too big for conquest. Armies marched on foot. Provisions could not be carried in any quantity, unless a general clung to the sea-shore and depended on his ships. What Alexander might with more truth have sighed for, was some modern means of swift transportation, possessed of which he might still have enjoyed many interesting, bloody battles in more distant lands.