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02 - The Capture of Panama

In Great Pirate Stories

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Joseph Lewis French


Piracy embodies the romance of the sea at its highest expression. It isa sad but inevitable commentary on our civilization, that, so far as …

Ch 07: Provincial Administration under Augustus: The Eastern Provinces (27 B.C.…

In The Students’ Roman Empire part 1, A History of the Roman Empire from Its Found…

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John Bagnell Bury


The writings of J. B. Bury, on subjects ranging from ancient Greece to the 19th-century papacy, are at once scholarly and accessible to the …

Ch 03 The Romans in Gaul

In A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times vol 1

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Francois Guizot and François Pierre Guillaume Guizot


François Pierre Guillaume Guizot was a French historian, orator, and statesman. Guizot was a dominant figure in French politics prior…

01 - Preface and The Life and Writings of Pliny, part 1

In The Natural History Volume 1

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Pliny the Elder


Naturalis Historia (Latin for "Natural History") is an encyclopedia published circa AD 77-79 by Pliny the Elder. It is one of the …

Catiline Conspiracy part 01

In The Catiline Conspiracy and the Jugurthine War

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Sallust and Gaius


The Catiline Conspiracy and the Jugurthine War are the two separate surviving works of the historian commonly known as "Sallust". …

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