The History of Antiquity (Vol. 1-6) (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. Egypt, Assyria, Phoenicia, Israel, Babylon, Lydia, Arians, Buddhists and Brahmans, The Medes and Persians…By Max Duncker
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Max Duncker's The History of Antiquity (Vol. 1–6) is an ambitious nineteenth-century synthesis of the ancient world, moving from the civilizations of the Near East to the rise of Greece and the wider political, religious, and cultural formations of antiquity. Written in a lucid, expansive prose characteristic of German historical scholarship, it combines narrative history with ethnographic, mythological, and institutional analysis. Though shaped by the evidentiary limits and assumptions of its age, the work stands within the great tradition of universal history, seeking to discern continuity, causation, and civilizational development across vast chronological and geographical fields. Duncker, a German historian, liberal politician, and public intellectual, brought to the project both scholarly discipline and a statesman's interest in the formation of peoples, laws, and political orders. His academic training and engagement with philology, classical literature, and emerging Oriental studies informed his desire to present antiquity not as a sequence of isolated episodes, but as a connected historical drama. This work is recommended to readers interested in the intellectual history of historiography, classical civilization, and nineteenth-century interpretations of the ancient past. It remains valuable not only for its breadth, but also for revealing how modern historical imagination first attempted to organize antiquity on a truly comparative scale.
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Table of contents
1Introduction
65CHAPTER I.: THE LAND AND THE PEOPLE.
2Volume 1
66CHAPTER II.: THE ARYAS ON THE INDUS.
3PREFACE: TO THE ENGLISH EDITION.
67CHAPTER III.: THE CONQUEST OF THE LAND OF THE GANGES.
4BOOK I.
68CHAPTER IV.: THE FORMATION AND ARRANGEMENT OF THE ORDERS.
5EGYPT.
69CHAPTER V.: THE OLD AND THE NEW RELIGION.
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6CHAPTER I.: THE LAND AND THE PEOPLE.
70CHAPTER VI.: THE CONSTITUTION AND LAW OF THE INDIANS.
7CHAPTER II.: THE ANTIQUITY OF THE CIVILISATION IN THE VALLEY OF THE NILE.
71CHAPTER VII.: THE CASTES AND THE FAMILY.
8CHAPTER III.: THE RELIGION OF THE EGYPTIANS.
72CHAPTER VIII.
9CHAPTER IV.: THE KINGDOM OF MEMPHIS.
73THE THEOLOGY AND PHILOSOPHY OF THE BRAHMANS.
10CHAPTER V.: THE HYKSOS AND THE RESTORATION OF THE EGYPTIAN KINGDOM.
74BOOK VI.
11CHAPTER VI.: THE HOUSE OF RAMSES.
75BUDDHISTS AND BRAHMANS.
12CHAPTER VII.: THE MONUMENTS OF THE HOUSE OF RAMSES.
76CHAPTER I.: THE STATES ON THE GANGES IN THE SIXTH CENTURY B.C.
13CHAPTER VIII.: LIFE AND MANNERS OF THE EGYPTIANS.
77CHAPTER II.: BUDDHA'S LIFE AND TEACHING.
14BOOK II.
78CHAPTER III.: THE KINGDOM OF MAGADHA AND THE SETTLEMENTS IN THE SOUTH.
15THE SEMITIC NATIONS.
79CHAPTER IV.: THE NATIONS AND PRINCES OF THE LAND OF THE INDUS.
16CHAPTER I.: THE ANCIENT KINGDOM OF BABYLON.
80CHAPTER V.: POLITICAL AND SOCIAL LIFE OF THE INDIANS IN THE FOURTH CENTURY B.C.
17CHAPTER II.: THE RELIGION AND SCIENCE OF THE CHALDÆANS.
81CHAPTER VI.: CHANDRAGUPTA OF MAGADHA.
18CHAPTER III.: THE ART AND TRADE OF BABYLONIA.
82CHAPTER VII.: THE RELIGION OF THE BUDDHISTS.
19CHAPTER IV.: THE ARABS.
83CHAPTER VIII.: THE REFORMS OF THE BRAHMANS.
20CHAPTER V.: THE CANAANITES.
84CHAPTER IX.: AÇOKA OF MAGADHA.
21CHAPTER VI.: THE RELIGIOUS RITES OF THE CANAANITES.
85CHAPTER X.: RETROSPECT.
22CHAPTER VII.: THE ORIGIN AND DESCENT OF THE HEBREWS.
86Volume 5
23CHAPTER VIII.: THE HEBREWS IN EGYPT.
87BOOK VII.
24CHAPTER IX.: THE LIBERATION OF THE HEBREWS.
88THE ARIANS OF EASTERN IRAN.
25CHAPTER X.: THE HEBREWS IN THE DESERT.
89EASTERN IRAN.
26CHAPTER XI.: THE HEBREW INVASION OF CANAAN.
90CHAPTER I.: THE LAND AND THE TRIBES.
27CHAPTER XII.: THE NATIONS OF ASIA MINOR.
91CHAPTER II.: THE KINGDOM OF THE BACTRIANS.
28Volume 2
92CHAPTER III.: THE SCRIPTURES OF IRAN.[76]
29ASSYRIA.
93CHAPTER IV.: ZARATHRUSTRA AND THE DATE OF THE COMPOSITION OF THE AVESTA.[118]
30CHAPTER I.: THE STORY OF NINUS AND SEMIRAMIS.
94CHAPTER V.: THE GODS OF THE ARIANS IN IRAN.
31CHAPTER II.: THE BEGINNINGS OF THE ASSYRIAN KINGDOM.
95CHAPTER VI.: THE REFORM OF THE FAITH.
32CHAPTER III.: THE NAVIGATION AND COLONIES OF THE PHENICIANS.
96CHAPTER VII.: THE DOCTRINE OF THE AVESTA.
33CHAPTER IV.: THE TRIBES OF ISRAEL.
97CHAPTER VIII.: THE PRIESTHOOD OF IRAN
34CHAPTER V.: THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE MONARCHY IN ISRAEL.
98CHAPTER IX.: THE LAW OF THE PRIESTS.
35CHAPTER VI.: DAVID'S STRUGGLE AGAINST SAUL AND ISHBOSHETH.
99CHAPTER X.
36CHAPTER VII.: THE RULE OF DAVID.
100THE LATER DEVELOPMENT OF EASTERN IRAN.
37CHAPTER VIII.: KING SOLOMON.
101BOOK VIII.
38CHAPTER IX.: THE LAW OF THE PRIESTS.
102THE EMPIRE OF THE MEDES AND PERSIANS.
39CHAPTER X.: JUDAH AND ISRAEL.
103THE EMPIRE OF THE MEDES AND PERSIANS.
40CHAPTER XI.: THE CITIES OF THE PHENICIANS.
104CHAPTER I.: THE FOUNDATION OF THE MEDIAN KINGDOM.
41CHAPTER XII.: THE TRADE OF THE PHENICIANS.
105CHAPTER II.: THE EMPIRE OF THE MEDES.
42CHAPTER XIII.: THE RISE OF ASSYRIA.
106CHAPTER III.: THE TRIBES OF THE PERSIANS.
43Volume 3
107CHAPTER IV.: THE FALL OF THE MEDIAN KINGDOM.
44ASSYRIA.
108CHAPTER V.: THE RISE OF THE PERSIAN KINGDOM.
45CHAPTER I.: THE CAMPAIGNS OF TIGLATH PILESAR II.
109Volume 6
46CHAPTER II.: THE PROPHETS OF ISRAEL.
110BOOK VIII. (CONTINUED.)
47CHAPTER III.: THE PHARAOHS OF TANIS, BUBASTIS, AND NAPATA.
111THE EMPIRE OF THE MEDES AND PERSIANS.
48CHAPTER IV.: THE FIRST COLLISION OF ASSYRIA AND EGYPT.
112EASTERN IRAN.
49CHAPTER V.: ASSYRIA IN THE REIGNS OF SARGON AND SENNACHERIB.
113CHAPTER VI.: THE FALL OF THE LYDIAN EMPIRE.
50CHAPTER VI.: SENNACHERIB IN SYRIA.
114CHAPTER VII.: THE SUBJUGATION OF ASIA MINOR.
51CHAPTER VII.: ESARHADDON.
115CHAPTER VIII.: THE FALL OF BABYLON.
52CHAPTER VIII.: ASSURBANIPAL'S WARS AND VICTORIES.
116CHAPTER IX.: THE KINGDOM OF CYRUS.
53CHAPTER IX.: THE CONSTITUTION, ARMY, AND ART OF THE ASSYRIANS.
117CHAPTER X.: THE FALL OF EGYPT.
54CHAPTER X.: JUDAH UNDER MANASSES AND JOSIAH.
118CHAPTER XI.: THE MARCH TO MEROE.
55CHAPTER XI.: THE NATIONS OF THE NORTH.
119CHAPTER XII.: THE DEATH OF CAMBYSES.
56CHAPTER XII.: THE FALL OF ASSYRIA.
120CHAPTER XIII.: THE RISE OF DARIUS.
57CHAPTER XIII.: EGYPT UNDER PSAMMETICHUS AND NECHO.
121CHAPTER XIV.: THE REBELLIONS IN THE PROVINCES.
58CHAPTER XIV.: THE RESTORATION OF BABYLON.
122CHAPTER XV.: THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF DARIUS ON THE INDUS AND THE DANUBE.
59CHAPTER XV.: NEBUCHADNEZZAR AND HIS SUCCESSORS.
123CHAPTER XVI.: THE CONQUESTS IN AFRICA AND EUROPE.
60CHAPTER XVI.: EGYPT UNDER THE LAST PHARAOHS.
124CHAPTER XVII.: THE STATE OF DARIUS.
61CHAPTER XVII.: THE OVERTHROW OF THE HERACLEIDS IN LYDIA.
125CHAPTER XVIII.: THE FINANCE AND ARMY OF DARIUS.
62CHAPTER XVIII.: LYDIA UNDER THE MERMNADÆ.
126CHAPTER XIX.: THE COURT OF DARIUS.
63Volume 4
127CHAPTER XX.: RETROSPECT.
64INDIA.
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