VOLUME I
General Introduction
An Outline Narrative of the Great Events
Charles F. Horne
Dawn of Civilization (B.C. 5867)
G.C.C. MASPERO
Compilation of the Earliest Code (B.C. 2250)
Hammurabi
Theseus Founds Athens (B.C. 1235)
Plutarch
The Formation of the Castes in India (B.C.
1200)
GUSTAVE LE BON
W.W. HUNTER
Fall of Troy (B.C. 1184)
GEORGE GROTE
Accession of Solomon Building of the Temple
at Jerusalem (B.C. 1017)
HENRY HART MILMAN
Rise and Fall of Assyria Destruction of
Nineveh (B.C. 789)
F. LENORMANT AND E. CHEVALLIER
The Foundation of Rome (B.C. 753)
BARTHOLD GEORG NIEBUHR
Prince Jimmu Founds Japan’s Capital (B.C.
660)
SIR EDWARD REED
THE “NEHONGI”
The Foundation of Buddhism (B.C. 623)
THOMAS W. RHYS-DAVIDS
Pythian Games at Delphi (B.C. 585)
GEORGE GROTE
Solon’s Early Greek Legislation (B.C.
594)
GEORGE GROTE
Conquests of Cyrus the Great (B.C. 550)
GEORGE GROTE
Rise of Confucius, the Chinese Sage (B.C.
550)
R.K. DOUGLAS
Rome Established as a Republic Institution
of Tribunes (B.C. 510-494)
HENRY GEORGE LIDDELL
The Battle of Marathon (B.C. 490)
SIR EDWARD SHEPHERD CREASY
Invasion of Greece by Persians under Xerxes
Defence of Thermopylae (B.C. 480)
HERODOTUS
Universal Chronology (B.C. 5867-451)
JOHN RUDD
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
VOLUME I
Sphinx, with Great and Second Pyramids of Gizeh (page 12) Frontispiece From an original photograph.
The Rosetta Stone, and Description Facsimile of original in the British Museum.
The Sabine Women—now mothers—suing for peace between the combatants (their Roman husbands and their Sabine relatives) Painting by Jacques L. David.
THE GREAT EVENTS
BY
FAMOUS HISTORIANS
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General Introduction
THE GREAT EVENTS BY FAMOUS HISTORIANS is the answer to a problem which has long been agitating the learned world. How shall real history, the ablest and profoundest work of the greatest historians, be rescued from its present oblivion on the dusty shelves of scholars, and made welcome to the homes of the people?