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The History of Antiquity, Vol. 2 (of 6)

The History of Antiquity, Vol. 2 (of 6)

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THE HISTORY OF ANTIQUITY.

 

 

THE

HISTORY OF ANTIQUITY.

FROM THE GERMAN
OF

PROFESSOR MAX DUNCKER,

 

BY

EVELYN ABBOTT, M.A.,
FELLOW AND TUTOR OF BALLIOL COLLEGE, OXFORD.

 

VOL. II.

 

 

LONDON:
RICHARD BENTLEY & SON, NEW BURLINGTON STREET,
Publishers in Ordinary to Her Majesty the Queen.
1879.

Bungay:
CLAY AND TAYLOR, PRINTERS.

The present volume has been translated from the fifth edition of the original, and has had, throughout, the benefit of Professor Duncker's revision.

E. A.

Oxford, Jan. 14, 1879.

 

 

CONTENTS.

BOOK III.
ASSYRIA.     PHŒNICIA.     ISRAEL.
PAGE
CHAPTER I.
THE STORY OF NINUS AND SEMIRAMIS 1
CHAPTER II.
THE BEGINNINGS OF THE ASSYRIAN KINGDOM 26
CHAPTER III.
THE NAVIGATION AND COLONIES OF THE PHENICIANS 49
CHAPTER IV.
THE TRIBES OF ISRAEL 89
CHAPTER V.
THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE MONARCHY IN ISRAEL 109
CHAPTER VI.
DAVID'S STRUGGLE AGAINST SAUL AND ISHBOSHETH 128
CHAPTER VII.
THE RULE OF DAVID 150
CHAPTER VIII.
KING SOLOMON 179
CHAPTER IX.
THE LAW OF THE PRIESTS 201
CHAPTER X.
JUDAH AND ISRAEL 227
CHAPTER XI.
THE CITIES OF THE PHENICIANS 262
CHAPTER XII.
THE TRADE OF THE PHENICIANS 294
CHAPTER XIII.
THE RISE OF ASSYRIA 308

BOOK III.

ASSYRIA. PHŒNICIA. ISRAEL.

ASSYRIA.

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 west it is traversed by a few water-courses only, which spring out of the mountains of Sindyar, and unite with the Tigris; from the east the affluents are far more abundant. On the southern shore of the lake of Urumiah the edge of the plateau of Iran abuts on the Armenian table-land, and then, stretching to the south-east, it bounds the river valley of the Tigris toward the east. From its vast, successive ranges, the Zagrus of the Greeks, flow the Lycus and Caprus (the Greater and the Lesser Zab), the Adhim and the Diala. The water, which these rivers convey to the land between the Zagrus and the Tigris, together with the elevation of the soil, softens the heat and allows olive trees and vines to flourish in the cool air on the hills, sesame and corn in the valleys between groups of palms and fruit-trees. The backs of the heights which rise to the east are covered by forests of oaks and nut trees. Toward the south the ground gradually sinks—on the west immediately under the mountains of Sindyar, on the east below the Lesser Zab—toward the course of the Adhim into level plains, where the soil is little inferior in fertility to the land of Babylonia. The land between the Tigris and the Greater Zab is known to Strabo and Arrian as Aturia.[1] The districts between the Greater and Lesser Zab are called Arbelitis and Adiabene by western writers.[2] The region bounded by the

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