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Max Duncker

The History of Antiquity, Vol. 6 (of 6)Max Duncker The History of Antiquity, Vol. 6 (of 6) CHAPTER VI THE FALL OF THE LYDIAN EMPIRE After the fall of Nineveh, Media, Babylonia, and Lydia had continued to exist side by side in peace and friendship. The successful rebellion of Cyrus altered at one ...

The History of Antiquity, Vol. 2 (of 6)Max Duncker The History of Antiquity, Vol. 2 (of 6) CHAPTER I THE STORY OF NINUS AND SEMIRAMIS About the middle course of the Tigris, where the mountain wall of the Armenian plateau steeply descends to the south, there is a broad stretch of hilly country. To...

The History of Antiquity, Vol. 3 (of 6)Max Duncker The History of Antiquity, Vol. 3 (of 6) CHAPTER I. THE CAMPAIGNS OF TIGLATH PILESAR II In the course of the ninth century B.C. the power of Assyria had made considerable progress. In addition to the ancient dependencies on the upper Zab and the u...

The History of Antiquity, Vol. 4 (of 6)Max Duncker The History of Antiquity, Vol. 4 (of 6) BOOK V. THE ARIANS ON THE INDUS AND THE GANGES CHAPTER I. THE LAND AND THE PEOPLE It was not only in the lower valley of the Nile, on the banks of the Euphrates and the Tigris, and along the coast and on th...

The History of Antiquity, Vol. 5 (of 6)Max Duncker The History of Antiquity, Vol. 5 (of 6) BOOK VII. THE ARIANS OF EASTERN IRAN CHAPTER I. THE LAND AND THE TRIBES Between the valley of the Indus and the land of the Euphrates and Tigris, bounded on the south by the ocean and the Persian Gulf, on t...

The History of Antiquity, Vol. 1 (of 6)Max Duncker The History of Antiquity, Vol. 1 (of 6) PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION Fifty years ago, the opinion was held by some that we could watch, in the tradition of the most ancient realms of the East, the first awkward steps in the childhood of the hum...