I. History of the Syrian empire under the Seleucidæ B. C. 312—64 232     II. History of the Egyptian kingdom under the Ptolemies, B. C. 323—30 247     III. History of Macedonia itself and of Greece, from the death of Alexander to the Roman conquest, B. C. 323—146 268         Achæan league 280         Ætolian league 279     IV. History of some smaller or more distant kingdoms and states formed out of the Macedonian monarchy 290         The kingdom of Pergamus 291         Bithynia 293         Paphlagonia 294         Pontus 295         Cappadocia 297         Armenia 298         The kingdom of Parthia 299         The kingdom of Bactria 305         The restored kingdom of the Jews 306             1. Under the Persians 307             2. Under the Ptolemies and Seleucidæ 308             3. Under the Maccabees 309             4. Under the family of Herod 311 Book V. History of the Roman state: Introductory remarks on the Geography of Ancient Italy 314     Period I. From the foundation of Rome to the conquest of Italy, and the commencement of the wars with Carthage, B. C. 754—264, or A. U. C. 1—490 321     Period II. From the commencement of the war with Carthage to the rise of the civil broils under the Gracchi, B. C. 264—134, or A. U. C. 490—620 339     Period III. From the beginning of the civil broils under the Gracchi to the fall of the republic, B. C. 134—30, or A. U. C. 620—724 362     Period IV. History of the Roman state as a monarchy till the overthrow of the western empire, B. C. 30—A. C. 476 402 Geographical outline. View of the Roman empire and provinces, and other countries connected with it by war or commerce ib.     1st Section. From Augustus Cæsar to the death of Commodus, B. C. 30—A. C. 193 411     2nd Section. From the death of Commodus to Diocletian, A. C. 193—284 437     3rd Section. From Diocletian to the overthrow of the Roman empire in the west, A. C. 284—476 454 Appendix. Chronology of Herodotus from the time of Cyrus, according to