Antiquity
Malaria: A Neglected Factor in the History of Greece and Rome
This short book has the objective of showing how important it is to stamp out malaria as soon as possible. Unlike a plague that suddenly tak…
The Jesus of History
A collection of a series of lectures delivered while Glover was in India setting the life of Jesus into its historical context and seeing wh…
The Golden Bough. A Study in Magic and Religion. Adonis Attis Osiris.
The sixth volume in the Golden Bough. Frazer continues into the second part of the compilation of analogies dealing with the recurring theme…
The Idea of Progress
John Bagnell Bury was Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge University in the early twentieth century. In The Idea of Progress, he…
Israel under Samuel, Saul, and David, to the Birth of Solomon
The history of Israel, viewed as the Theocracy, or Kingdom of God, consists of three periods : First, that under the guidance of Prophets (f…
The Exodus and the Wanderings in the Wilderness
The period covered by the central books of the Pentateuch is, in many respects, the most important in Old Testament history, not only so far…
The Gracchi, Marius and Sulla
During the last half of the second century B.C. Rome was undisputed mistress of the civilized western world. As the British historian, Augus…
Stories of the Wars of the Jews
Stories of the Wars of the Jews from the Babylonish captivity, to the destruction of Jerusalem by Titus is a historical narrative spanning J…
The Empresses of Rome
The story of Imperial Rome has been told frequently and impressively in our literature, and few chapters in the long chronicle of man’s deed…
Octavius
This ancient Roman dialogue plays out as a religious debate between the Christian lawyer Octavius, and his close friend, a skeptical pagan n…
Egypt of the Pharaohs and of the Khedivé
Those particulars of the History of Egypt, and of its present condition, in which it differs from other countries, are factors of the idea t…
Sulla the Fortunate
George P. Baker explores the life of Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix, known more commonly as Sulla. Sulla was a Roman general and statesman of …
The History of the Church of Christ
It is certain, that from our Saviour's time to the present, there have ever been persons whose dispositions and lives have been formed by th…
The Golden Bough. A Study in Magic and Religion.
The seventh volume in The Golden Bough series by Sir James George Frazer. The figure of the dying and reviving god in Oriental religions of …
Beacon Lights of History
Volume 4 discusses some of the key leaders of the ancient world, including Julius Caesar, Marcus Aurelius and Constantine, as well as import…
Christianity in the Apostolic Age
The purpose of this volume, A history of Christianity in the Apostolic Age, is strictly historical. At the same time brief accounts of the N…
Malaria in Greek History
This book is an attempt to correct and develop the theory proposed tentatively in the little work Malaria. Put briefly, this theory is as fo…
Roman History
William Wolfe Capes (1834-1914) was an Anglican cleric, a classicist, and a historian. This is his short chronicle of the early Roman Empire…
Lectures on the History and Principles of Ancient Commerce
"There are few in this room who have not attended [Gilbart's] excellent lectures on 'Ancient Commerce.' I feel what a train of agreeabl…
The Temple
It has been my wish in this book, to take the reader back eighteen centuries; to show him Jerusalem as it was, when our Lord passed through …