The History of Antiquity (Vol. 1-6). Duncker Max

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       Max Duncker

      The History of Antiquity (Vol. 1-6)

       Complete Edition

       Translator: Evelyn Abbott

      e-artnow, 2020

       Contact: [email protected]

      EAN: 4064066398910

Table of Contents

       Volume 1

       Volume 2

       Volume 3

       Volume 4

       Volume 5

       Volume 6

Volume 1

       Table of Contents

       PREFACE

       TO THE ENGLISH EDITION.

       BOOK I.

       EGYPT.

       CHAPTER I.

       THE LAND AND THE PEOPLE.

       CHAPTER II.

       THE ANTIQUITY OF THE CIVILISATION IN THE VALLEY OF THE NILE.

       CHAPTER III.

       THE RELIGION OF THE EGYPTIANS.

       CHAPTER IV.

       THE KINGDOM OF MEMPHIS.

       CHAPTER V.

       THE HYKSOS AND THE RESTORATION OF THE EGYPTIAN KINGDOM.

       CHAPTER VI.

       THE HOUSE OF RAMSES.

       CHAPTER VII.

       THE MONUMENTS OF THE HOUSE OF RAMSES.

       CHAPTER VIII.

       LIFE AND MANNERS OF THE EGYPTIANS.

       BOOK II.

       THE SEMITIC NATIONS.

       CHAPTER I.

       THE ANCIENT KINGDOM OF BABYLON.

       CHAPTER II.

       THE RELIGION AND SCIENCE OF THE CHALDÆANS.

       CHAPTER III.

       THE ART AND TRADE OF BABYLONIA.

       CHAPTER IV.

       THE ARABS.

       CHAPTER V.

       THE CANAANITES.

       CHAPTER VI.

       THE RELIGIOUS RITES OF THE CANAANITES.

       CHAPTER VII.

       THE ORIGIN AND DESCENT OF THE HEBREWS.

       CHAPTER VIII.

       THE HEBREWS IN EGYPT.

       CHAPTER IX.

       THE LIBERATION OF THE HEBREWS.

       CHAPTER X.

       THE HEBREWS IN THE DESERT.

       CHAPTER XI.

       THE HEBREW INVASION OF CANAAN.

       CHAPTER XII.

       THE NATIONS OF ASIA MINOR.

      PREFACE

      TO THE ENGLISH EDITION.

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      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 human race, while others believed that it was possible to discover there the remnants of an original wisdom, received by mankind at the beginning of their course immediately from the hand of heaven. The monuments of the East, subsequently discovered and investigated by the combined labour of English, German, and French scholars, have added an unexpected abundance of fresh information to the Hebrew Scriptures and the narratives of the Greeks, which, till then, were almost our only resource. No one can any longer be ignorant that Hither Asia at a very remote period was in possession of a rich and many-sided civilisation. The earliest stages of that civilisation in the valley of the Nile, of the Euphrates and the Tigris, on the coasts and in the interior of Syria are, it is true, entirely hidden from our knowledge; even the far more recent culture of the Aryan tribes we can only trace with the help of the Veda and the Avesta back to the point at which they were already acquainted with agriculture, and possessed considerable artistic skill.

      Our object in regard to the ancient East is not to retrace the beginning of human civilization, but rather to understand and establish the value and extent of those early phases of civilisation to which the entire development of the human race goes back. The way to this aim is clearly sketched out for us. A minute comparison of tradition with the results of the successful advance of Oriental studies, a conscientious