An Universal History: In Twenty-four Books, Volume 1

Johannes von Müller, James Cowles Prichard

Cottons and Barnard, 1834 - World history

Contents

• THE FIRST VOLUME: 1
• Political Constitutions: 8
• BOOK I: 15
• Of the Syrian Coast and Phcenice: 21
• Sect XLGreece: 27
• Italy: 34
• Egypt: 38
• Lacedffimon: 40
• Athens: 49
• The other Republics in Greece and Lesser Asia: 59
• Colonies in Italy and Sicily: 62
• Rome: 63
• Carthage: 71
• Conclusion: 74
• BOOK III: 75
• Herodotus: 77
• Thucydides: 78
• Xenophon: 79
• The Theatre: 81
• Orators: 82
• Philosophers: 83
• Poets: 85
• BOOK IV: 86
• Persia: 87
• The Persian War: 88
• Supremacy of Athens: 92
• Pericles: 94
• The Peloponnesian War: 95
• The Sicilian War: 96
• Destruction of the Athenian Sovereignty: 98
• The Sovereignty of Lacedaemon: 100
• Decline of the Spartan Sovereignty: 102
• Ruin of the Independence of Greece: 104
• The Macedonian Monarchy: 107
• Reflections: 108
• The Kingdom of Macedonia and the Fate of Greece: 110
• The Seleucida: 112
• The Ptolemies: 114
• Conclusion: 115
• BOOK V: 116
• Polybius: 117
• Plautus Terentius Cato: 118
• Sallust: 119
• Nepos Catullus Lucretius Dionysius of Halicar nassus Diodorus of Sicily: 120
• Sect Vil Titus Livius and Velleius Paterculus: 122
• Sect VIH Strabo Mela Pausanias Ptolenueus: 123
• Virgil Horace Ovid: 124
• Tacitus the Elder Pliny: 125
• Plutarch Suetonius: 126
• Later Historians: 127
• Various Writers of particular Histories: 128
• Authors who have borrowed from others: 129
• Collections: 130
• Seven other auxiliary Resources: 131
• BOOK VI: 135
• Government of the Consuls: 136
• Tribunes of the People and Dictators: 137
• Wars with the Gauls Latium Samnium and the Na tions of the Apennines: 139
• The War of Pyrrhus: 142
• The internal Constitution of Rome: 144
• General View of the Constitution of Rome: 145
• The Military Affairs of the Romans: 149
• Authors who have written particularly on the Military Affairs of the Romans: 159
• The Manners of the Romans: 161
• The First Punic War Cisalpine Gaul Dalmatia: 166
• The Second Punic War: 169
• The Macedonian and Syrian Wars: 173
• The Fate of Hannibal and Scipio: 175
• Conquest of Macedonia: 176
• The Third Punic War: 177
• The Achsean War: 180
• The Wars inlSpain: 181
• The Gracchi: 182
• The Cimbric War: 184
• Mithridates: 186
• State of Affairs in the City War in Italy: 187
• Marius and Sylla: 189
• The Age of Pompey: 195
• Caesar Pompey and Crassus Cato and Cicero: 198
• The War of Caisar in Gaul: 202
• Csesars Civil War: 209
• Caisars last War and his Death: 213
• The Civil War of Brutus and Cassius: 217
• Of the Union of Power in the Hands of a single Ruler: 220

Bibliographic information

• Title: An Universal History: In Twenty-four Books, Volume 1; An Universal History: In Twenty-four Books, James Cowles Prichard
• Authors: Johannes von Müller, James Cowles Prichard
• Publisher: Cottons and Barnard, 1834
• Original from: Harvard University
• Digitized: Jul 11, 2008