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
Length92h 42m
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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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Publish dateJul 17, 2020
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Table of contents
1Introduction
2Volume 1
3PREFACE: TO THE ENGLISH EDITION.
4BOOK I.
5EGYPT.
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6CHAPTER I.: THE LAND AND THE PEOPLE.
7CHAPTER II.: THE ANTIQUITY OF THE CIVILISATION IN THE VALLEY OF THE NILE.
8CHAPTER III.: THE RELIGION OF THE EGYPTIANS.
9CHAPTER IV.: THE KINGDOM OF MEMPHIS.
10CHAPTER V.: THE HYKSOS AND THE RESTORATION OF THE EGYPTIAN KINGDOM.
11CHAPTER VI.: THE HOUSE OF RAMSES.
12CHAPTER VII.: THE MONUMENTS OF THE HOUSE OF RAMSES.
13CHAPTER VIII.: LIFE AND MANNERS OF THE EGYPTIANS.
14BOOK II.
15THE SEMITIC NATIONS.
16CHAPTER I.: THE ANCIENT KINGDOM OF BABYLON.
17CHAPTER II.: THE RELIGION AND SCIENCE OF THE CHALDÆANS.
18CHAPTER III.: THE ART AND TRADE OF BABYLONIA.
19CHAPTER IV.: THE ARABS.
20CHAPTER V.: THE CANAANITES.
21CHAPTER VI.: THE RELIGIOUS RITES OF THE CANAANITES.
22CHAPTER VII.: THE ORIGIN AND DESCENT OF THE HEBREWS.
23CHAPTER VIII.: THE HEBREWS IN EGYPT.
24CHAPTER IX.: THE LIBERATION OF THE HEBREWS.
25CHAPTER X.: THE HEBREWS IN THE DESERT.
26CHAPTER XI.: THE HEBREW INVASION OF CANAAN.
27CHAPTER XII.: THE NATIONS OF ASIA MINOR.
28Volume 2
29ASSYRIA.
30CHAPTER I.: THE STORY OF NINUS AND SEMIRAMIS.
31CHAPTER II.: THE BEGINNINGS OF THE ASSYRIAN KINGDOM.
32CHAPTER III.: THE NAVIGATION AND COLONIES OF THE PHENICIANS.
33CHAPTER IV.: THE TRIBES OF ISRAEL.
34CHAPTER V.: THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE MONARCHY IN ISRAEL.
35CHAPTER VI.: DAVID'S STRUGGLE AGAINST SAUL AND ISHBOSHETH.
36CHAPTER VII.: THE RULE OF DAVID.
37CHAPTER VIII.: KING SOLOMON.
38CHAPTER IX.: THE LAW OF THE PRIESTS.
39CHAPTER X.: JUDAH AND ISRAEL.
40CHAPTER XI.: THE CITIES OF THE PHENICIANS.
41CHAPTER XII.: THE TRADE OF THE PHENICIANS.
42CHAPTER XIII.: THE RISE OF ASSYRIA.
43Volume 3
44ASSYRIA.
45CHAPTER I.: THE CAMPAIGNS OF TIGLATH PILESAR II.
46CHAPTER II.: THE PROPHETS OF ISRAEL.
47CHAPTER III.: THE PHARAOHS OF TANIS, BUBASTIS, AND NAPATA.
48CHAPTER IV.: THE FIRST COLLISION OF ASSYRIA AND EGYPT.
49CHAPTER V.: ASSYRIA IN THE REIGNS OF SARGON AND SENNACHERIB.
50CHAPTER VI.: SENNACHERIB IN SYRIA.
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