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Ancient History from Primary Sources
Ancient History from Primary Sources: A Literary Timeline by Harvey and
Laurie Bluedorn is a reference book which guides the student on a selective
timeline tour through ancient history, outlining the major events and
personalities, and noting the primary literary sources from which these
things are known. Time-wise, this book covers the period from the creation
of the world to the fall of Rome in A.D. 476. Space-wise, this book covers
the civilizations of the near east and west. Each event or person in history
is accompanied by suggested readings from various ancient sources. Included
with the book are two CDs which contain the full text English translations
of most of the classical literature which we reference in the book.
This book will lead you by the hand through the maze of ancient literature
and help you find what is appropriate for you and your students to read as
you pursue your study of ancient history. And with the CDs, you have the
full texts of the works of literature right at your fingertips.
Book specifications: 223 pages, 8 1/2 X 11, double column format, paperback
with lay-flat binding, sturdy paper, full color cover.
CD specification: two CDs in a vinyl case (see below for contents of CDs).
Retail price for the Book & CD set: $59
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Table of Contents for Ancient History from Primary Sources: A Literary
Timeline
I Introduction
How to Use This Book
Using Primary Sources to Study History
II Timeline of Ancient Literature
III Author & Primary Source Index
The Bible
The Hebrew Scriptures
The Greek Scriptures
Literature of Egypt
Literature of the Hebrew People
The Hebrew Scriptures
Apocrypha
Pseudepigrapha
Talmud
Midrash
Targum
Dead Sea Scrolls
Literature of Mesopotamia (Sumer, Accad, Babylonia, Assyria, and Persia)
Literature of Greece and Rome (including early Literature of Christians)
Accius
Aeschines
Aeschylus
Aesop
Ambrose
Ammianus
Anaxagoras
Anaximander
Antiphon
Appian of Alexandria
Archimedes of Syracuse
Aristarchus of Samos
Aristides
Aristophanes
Aristotle
Arrian
Athanasius
Augustine
Augustus
Avianus
Caesar
Cato the Elder
Catullus
Celsus
Cicero
Clement of Alexandria
Clement of Rome
Commodianus
Cyprian
Demosthenes
Dio Cassius
Dio Chrysostom
Diodorus Siculus
Diogenes Laertius
Dionysius of Halicarnassus
Ennius
Epictetus
Epicurus
Eratosthenes
Euclid
Euripides
Eusebius
Eutropius
Frontinus
Galen
Gellius
Herodian
Herodotus
Hesiod
Hippocrates
Homer
Horace
Ignatius of Antioch
Irenaeus of Lyons
Isocrates
Jerome
John Chrysostom
Josephus
Julian the Apostate
Justin
Justin Martyr
Juvenal
Lactantius
Livy
Lucan
Lucian
Lucilius
Lucretius
Lysias
Marcus Aurelius
Martial
Menander
Nepos
Nicolaus of Damascus
Nicomachus of Gerasa
Origen
Ovid
Pacuvius
Pausanias
Pericles
Philo
Pindar
Plato
Plautus
Pliny the Elder
Pliny the Younger
Plutarch
Polybius
Priscus
Prudentius
Pyrrho of Elis
Pythagoras
Quintilian
Quintus Curtius
Sallust
Salvian
Sappho
Seneca
Socrates
Socrates Scholasticus
Solon
Sophocles
Sozomen
Strabo
Suetonius
Tacitus
Terence
Tertullian
Thales
Theocritus
Theodoret
Theodosius II
Thucydides
Tyrtaeus
Varro
Vegetius
Velleius
Virgil
Vitruvius
Xenophon
Zeno of Citium
IV Appendices
1. Four Approaches to the Study of Ancient Literature
2. Nothing is Neutral
3. Was Paul a Classical Greek Scholar?
4. The Bible Chronology Puzzle
5. Sources Consulted
6. History Curricula and Resources which can be used with this Book
There are 51 small illustrations in the book, 6 full page illustrations
(including Herodotus reading to the Greeks, Caesar Crossing the Rubicon, and
the Death of Archimedes), and 5 full page reproductions of antique maps
(maps of the world according to Strabo, Herodotus, Ptolemy, Homer, and
Eratosthenes).
Full texts which are included on the two CDs:
Egyptian and Mesopotamian literature:
Inscription of Tiglath-Pileser I King of Assyria
Book of the Dead
Products of Arabia
Story of Sinuhe
The Babylonian-Assyrian Story of the Creation
The Hymn of Aton
The Hymn of the Nile
The Laboring Classes
The Shipwrecked Sailor
Epitaph of Beka
How Cyrus Took Babylon
The Behistan Inscription of King Darius
Esarhaddon The Black Stone of Esarhaddon
Gilgamesh Babylonian-Assyrian Epic of Gilgamesh Flood Story
Achievements of Hammurabi
Code of Hammurabi
The Israel Stela of Mernepteh
An Inscription of Nebuchadnezzar
Letter of Pepi II to Harkhuf
Ptah-Hotep Egyptian Precepts (also called The Instruction of Ptah-Hotep)
Ramesses at Kadesh
Ramesses II, Son and Second Self of the God Ptah-Totunen
Treaty between Ramesses II and the Hittite King Hattusilis III
Chronicle of the Reign of Sargon
Sargon's Capture of Sumeria
Annals of Sennacherib
A Babylonian Lawsuit
The Moabite Stone
Tablets of Tel El Amarna
Greek and Latin Literature:
Aeschines (Against Ctesiphon, On the Embassy)
Aeschylus (The Persians)
Aesop's Fables (2 versions)
Ammianus (The History)
Appian of Alexandria (The Roman History)
Archimedes (most of his works)
Aristotle (most of his works)
Arrian (Anabasis of Alexander Book 8)
Augustine (Confessions, City of God)
Augustus (The Acts of Augustus as Recorded on the Monumentum Ancyranum)
Avianus' Fables
Julius Caesar (Gallic War, Civil War)
Cato the Elder (On Agriculture)
Celsus (On Medicine)
Cicero (On Friendship, Moral Duties, In Defense of Sestius, On the State,
The Making of an Orator, Second Philippic, The First Oration Against
Catiline, Discussions at Tusculum, Against Verres, Letters, On the Nature of
the Gods, Brutus, and numerous others)
Clement of Alexandria (Miscellanies, Exhortation to the Greeks, The
Instructor)
Clement of Rome (Epistle to the Corinthians)
Commodianus (Instructions)
Cyprian (Letters, The Lapsed, many others)
Demosthenes (most of his works)
Diogenes Laertius (Lives of the Philosophers)
Dionysius of Halicarnassus (Roman Antiquities)
Epictetus (Discourses, The Manual)
Epicurus (Letter to Menoeceus)
Euclid (Elements)
Eusebius (History of the Church, Life of Constantine)
Eutropius (A Concise History of Rome)
Frontinus (On Water)
Galen (On the Natural Faculties)
Gellius (Attic Nights)
Herodotus (History of the Persian War)
Hesiod (Works and Days, Theogony)
Hippocrates (most of his works)
Horace (Odes, Satires)
Ignatius (Letters)
Irenaeus (Against All Heresies)
Isocrates (Panegyricus, Areopagiticus, To Philip)
Jerome (Letters)
John Chrysostom (most of his works)
Josephus (War of the Jews, Antiquities, and all others)
Julian the Apostate (Letters, Orations)
Justin (Epitome of the Philippic Histories)
Justin Martyr (Dialog with Trypho, 1st Apology, 2nd Apology)
Lactantius (Divine Institutes, On the Deaths of the Persecutors)
Livy (The Early History of Rome)
Lucan (The Civil War)
Lucian (Life of Peregrinus)
Lucretius (On the Nature of Things)
Lysias (most of his works)
Marcus Aurelius (Meditations)
Nepos (On Famous Men)
Nicolaus of Damascus (Life of Augustus)
Origen (Against Celsus, De Principiis)
Pausanias (Description of Greece)
Philo (Embassy to Gaius, Every Good Man is Free, On the Creation of the
World)
Plato (most of his works)
Pliny the Elder (Natural History)
Pliny the Younger (Letters)
Plutarch (Lives, selections from Morals)
Polybius (The Histories)
Priscus (History)
Quintilian (The Education of an Orator)
Sallust (The Conspiracy of Catiline, The Jugurthine War)
Seneca (Essay on Benefits, Moral Letters)
Socrates Sch (History of the Church)
Sozomen (Ecclesiastical History)
Strabo (Ancient Geography)
Suetonius (Lives of the 12 Caesars)
Tacitus (Agricola, Annals, Germania, Histories, Dialog on Orators)
Tertullian (most of his works)
Theodoret (Ecclesiastical History)
Thucydides (History of the Persian War)
Varro (On Agriculture)
Vegetius (Military Institutions of the Romans)
Velleius (History of Rome)
Virgil (Georgics, Aenid, The Ecologues)
Vitruvius (On Architecture)
Xenophon (Cyropaedia, Anabasis, Constitution of the Lacedaemonians, and
others)
Full texts of these books:
Guides to the Egyptian and Babylonian Rooms of the British Museum by E. A.
Wallis Budge
A Source-Book of Ancient History by G. W. Botsford
Ancient Records of Egypt by James Henry Breasted
Records of the Past: Series 1 and 2 by A. H. Sayce
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The book is divided into four sections:
PART I
The first part tells how to use the book, who should use it, why we chose
our chronology, and why studying primary sources is important.
PART II
The second part is The Timeline of Ancient Literature which is divided into
rows for the progression of time, and into columns for comparison of the
five civilizations:
Hebrew and Christian
Egyptian
Mesopotamian (Sumer/ Accad/Babylon/Assyria/Persia)
Greek
Roman
The Timeline of Ancient Literature notes the major historical events and
personalities, and it lists selected literary excerpts for those
events/people. Each excerpt is identified by author, work, and citation.
PART III
The third part of our book is the Author and Primary Source Index. This
lists, in alphabetical order, the authors identified in the Timeline of
Ancient Literature, gives a biographical sketch for each, lists their extant
works with descriptions of these works, cites significant excerpts of these
works, and describes those excerpts.
Here is an example from the Author and Primary Source Index:
Herodotus (c. 484-425 B.C.)
Herodotus was a Greek historian. He wrote the earliest surviving Greek
history, The History of the Persian Wars, consisting of 9 books. Herodotus
states two reasons for writing his History: 1) "...to preserve the memory of
the past by putting on record the astonishing achievements both of our own
[Greek] and of the Asiatic [Persian, Egyptian, etc. barbarian] peoples;"
and 2)"... to show how the two races came into conflict." Herodotus isn't
always accurate in his narrative, although he is objective in his
observations and is free of national prejudice and racial bias.
Extant works:
The History of the Persian Wars (also called "The History")
Book 1 The rise of the Persian Empire through the downfall of the Lydian
Empire.
Book 2 The history of Egypt.
Book 3 The establishment of the Persian Empire under the reigns of
Cambyses, Smerdis, and Darius.
Book 4 The conflict of Persia against Scythia and Libya.
Book 5 The developing struggle between Persia and Athens.
Book 6 The growth of the Hellenic spirit in Ionia and Greece and the
Battle of Marathon.
Book 7 Xerxes' march against Greece.
Book 8 The Battle of Salamis.
Book 9 -- The battles of Plataea and Mycale and the failure of the Persian
invasion.
Significant excerpts:
The History of the Persian Wars
1.29-33 How Solon visited Croesus at Sardis.
1.74-75 Thales
1.95-106 Early history of Persia.
1.107-130 Birth and rise of Cyrus.
1.131-140 Customs of the Persians.
1.171 The Carians (former subjects of King Minos).
1.190-191 The taking of Babylon.
1.195 Description of Babylonian clothing.
2.2-5 The antiquity of Egypt.
2.14 Farm labor in Egypt is easy because of the Nile.
2.19-28 The Nile flood.
2.35-38 Manners and customs of the Egyptians.
2.68-76 Egyptian crocodiles and the hippopotamus.
2.86-88 How the Egyptians embalm their dead.
2.95 Egyptian mosquitoes.
2.124-128 The Building of the Pyramids by Cheops.
3.39-43 The Ring of Polycrates.
3.80-97 The Persians reject democracy; Darius' state.
3.122 The Carians (former subjects of King Minos).
4.196 Phoenician trade with Libya.
5.49-51 Aristagoras at Sparta.
5.58 The Phoenicians gave the alphabet to Greece.
5.66-77 How Athens was given a democratic organization by Clisthenes and
triumphed over her neighbors.
5.97, 99-101 Aristagoras at Athens and what came of it.
5.102-106 How the Persians came to Marathon.
6.56-58 The two kings of Sparta: their privileges in war and peace, their
dinner, jurisdiction and funeral.
6.102-117, 120 The Battle of Marathon.
7.1-7 Darius dies, ascension of Xerxes.
7.22-24 Mt. Athos.
7.33-56 Bridging of Hellespont.
7.60-83 The contingents and nations in Xerxes' army.
7.100-105 Dialog between Xerxes and Demaratus.
7.118-120 How the Greek towns were forced to entertain Xerxes' army.
7.138-144 How Athens resolved to face the Persians, and how Themistocles
interpreted the adverse oracles.
7.145-147 How Xerxes dealt with the Greek spies.
7.175-177 The Greeks decide to take a stand at Thermopylae by land and at
Artemisium point by sea.
7.196-234 Battle of Thermopylae.
8.40-43 The evacuation of Attica and the mustering of the Greek fleet.
8.74-86, 96-99 Salamis.
8.118 The Persians' devotion to Xerxes.
8.143 The answer the Athenians gave the Persian envoy before the battle of
Plataea.
9.52-70 The Battle of Plataea.
9.82 Persian magnificence and Greek simplicity.
Part IV is the Appendices which includes the following articles:
Four Approaches to the Study of Ancient Literature
Nothing is Neutral
Was Paul a Classical Greek Scholar?
The Bible Chronology Puzzle
History Curricula and Resources Which Can Be Used With This Book
Sources Consulted
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English translations of hundreds of works of classical literature. See our
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