History of Ancient Greece and Roman Empire: 24 Essential Books
Twenty-Four Classical Histories of War, Empire, Liberty, and the Ancient MediterraneanBy Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, Arrian, Livy, Tacitus, Ammianus Marcellinus, Suetonius, Plutarch, Polybius, Sallust, Julius Caesar, Strabo, Flavius Josephus, John Bagnell Bury, Theodor Mommsen, Edward Gibbon
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Spanning archaic Greece to the late Roman Empire and its modern interpretation, History of Ancient Greece and Roman Empire: 24 Essential Books gathers historiography, memoir, biography, geography, and political analysis into a capacious record of Mediterranean antiquity. Military narrative, constitutional inquiry, ethnographic observation, imperial chronicle, and moral portraiture coexist, allowing landmark accounts of the Persian Wars, Peloponnesian conflict, Roman expansion, and imperial decline to speak across centuries. The collection's range foregrounds both the grandeur of public events and the contingencies of power, character, religion, and place. Its contributors represent Greek and Roman historical writing at its most influential, from eyewitness participants and imperial administrators to biographers and geographers attentive to the peoples beyond Rome's borders. Their divergent social positions, political commitments, and literary methods illuminate the development of classical historiography: civic inquiry, pragmatic analysis, republican moralism, imperial critique, and universal history. The inclusion of major modern historians extends this dialogue, demonstrating how antiquity was received, systematized, and contested within nineteenth- and early twentieth-century scholarship. This volume is especially valuable for readers seeking a broad, comparative entrance into the ancient world. It offers an exceptional opportunity to trace recurring questions of war, governance, citizenship, empire, and historical causation through multiple voices and genres. Students and general readers alike will find in its breadth a rich educational resource and a sustained conversation about how history is written, remembered, and used.
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Publish dateJul 31, 2024
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Table of contents
1New History (Annotated)
2History of Ancient Greece and Roman Empire: 24 Essential Books
3The Histories
4Preface (pt. 1)
5Preface (pt. 2)
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6The History of the Peloponnesian War
7The First Book.
8Chapter I. The State of Greece from the earliest Times to the Commencement of the Peloponnesian War
9Chapter II. Causes of the War - The Affair of Epidamnus - The Affair of Potidaea
10Chapter III. Congress of the Peloponnesian Confederacy at Lacedaemon
11Chapter VI. Beginning of the Peloponnesian War - First Invasion of Attica - Funeral Oration of Pericles (pt. 1)
12Chapter VI. Beginning of the Peloponnesian War - First Invasion of Attica - Funeral Oration of Pericles (pt. 2)
13Chapter IX. Fourth and Fifth Years of the War - Revolt of Mitylene
14Chapter X. Fifth Year of the War - Trial and Execution of the Plataeans - Corcyraean Revolution
15Chapter XI. Year of the War - Campaigns of Demosthenes in Western Greece - Ruin of Ambracia
16Chapter XII. Seventh Year of the War - Occupation of Pylos - Surrender of the Spartan Army in Sphacteria (pt. 1)
17Chapter XII. Seventh Year of the War - Occupation of Pylos - Surrender of the Spartan Army in Sphacteria (pt. 2)
18Chapter XV. Tenth Year of the War - Death of Cleon and Brasidas - Peace of Nicias
19Chapter XVII. Sixteenth Year of the War - The Melian Conference - Fate of Melos (pt. 1)
20Chapter XVII. Sixteenth Year of the War - The Melian Conference - Fate of Melos (pt. 2)
21Chapter XVII. Sixteenth Year of the War - The Melian Conference - Fate of Melos (pt. 3)
22Chapter XVII. Sixteenth Year of the War - The Melian Conference - Fate of Melos (pt. 4)
23Hellenica: The History of the Peloponnesian War and Its Aftermath
24BOOK I
25BOOK II
26BOOK III
27BOOK IV
28BOOK V
29BOOK VI
30BOOK VII
31Anabasis: The March of the Ten Thousand
32BOOK I
33BOOK II
34BOOK III
35BOOK IV
36BOOK V
37BOOK VI
38BOOK VII
39The History of the Wars and Conquests of Alexander the Great
40PREFACE.
41ARRIAN'S PREFACE.
42BOOK II.
43BOOK III.
44BOOK IV.
45BOOK V.
46BOOK VI.
47BOOK VII.
48CHAPTER I
49CHAPTER II
50CHAPTER III
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