THE GREAT EVENTS BY FAMOUS HISTORIANS VOLUME II A COMPREHENSIVE AND READABLE ACCOUNT OF THE WORLD'S HISTORY. EMPHASIZING THE MORE IMPORTANT EVENTS, AND PRESENTING THESE AS COMPLETE NARRATIVES IN THE MASTER-WORDS OF THE MOST EMINENT HISTORIANS NON-SECTARIAN NON-PARTISAN NON-SECTIONAL ON THE PLAN EVOLVED FROM A CONSENSUS OF OPINIONS GATHERED FROM THE MOST DISTINGUISHED SCHOLARS OF AMERICA AND EUROPE, INCLUDING BRIEF INTRODUCTIONS BY SPECIALISTS TO CONNECT AND EXPLAIN THE CELEBRATED NARRATIVES, ARRANGED CHRONOLOGICALLY, WITH THOROUGH INDICES, BIBLIOGRAPHIES, CHRONOLOGIES, AND COURSES OF READING EDITOR-IN-CHIEF ROSSITER JOHNSON, LL.D. ASSOCIATE EDITORS CHARLES F. HORNE, Ph.D. JOHN RUDD, LL.D. 1905 BINDING Vol. II The binding of this volume is a facsimile of the original on exhibition in the Bibliothèque Nationale. It was executed by the Royal Binder, Clovis Eve, for Marie de' Médicis, Queen Consort of Henry IV of France. She was a great lover of fine arts, and especially of rich bindings. The one here shown was her special pride. It shows her arms--the arms of France and Tuscany--surrounded with the cordelière, the sign of her widowhood, accompanied by the monogram M.M. (Marie Médicis). She was exiled by Cardinal Richelieu in 1631. CONTENTS VOLUME II An Outline Narrative of the Great Events, CHARLES F. HORNE Institution and Fall of the Decemvirate in Rome (B.C. 450), HENRY G. LIDDELL Pericles Rules in Athens (B.C. 444), PLUTARCH Great Plague at Athens (B.C. 430), GEORGE GROTE Defeat of the Athenians at Syracuse (B.C. 413), SIR EDWARD S. CREASY Retreat of the Ten Thousand Greeks (B.C. 401-399), XENOPHON Condemnation and Death of Socrates (B.C. 399), PLATO Brennus Burns Rome (B.C. 388), BARTHOLD GEORG NIEBUHR Tartar Invasion of China by Meha (B.C. 341), DEMETRIUS CHARLES BOULGER Alexander Reduces Tyre, Later Founds Alexandria (B.C. 332), OLIVER GOLDSMITH The Battle of Arbela (B.C. 331), SIR EDWARD S. CREASY First Battle Between Greeks and Romans (B.C. 280-279), PLUTARCH The Punic Wars (B.C. 264-219-149), FLORUS Battle of the Metaurus (B.C. 2O7), SIR EDWARD S. CREASY Scipio Africanus Crushes Hannibal at Zama and Subjugates Carthage (B.C. 202), LIVY Judas Maccabaeus Liberates Judea (B.C. 165-141), JOSEPHUS The Gracchi and Their Reforms (B.C. 133), THEODOR MOMMSEN Caesar Conquers Gaul (B.C. 58-50), NAPOLEON III Roman Invasion and Conquest of Britain (B.C. 55-A.D. 79), OLIVER GOLDSMITH Cleopatra's Conquest of Caesar and Antony (B.C. 51-30), JOHN P. MAHAFFY Assassination of Caesar (B.C. 44), NIEBUHR PLUTARCH Rome Becomes a Monarchy Death of Antony and Cleopatra (B.C. 44-30), HENRY GEORGE LIDDELL Germans under Arminius Revolt Against Rome (A.D. 9), SIR EDWARD S. CREASY Universal Chronology (B.C. 450-A.D. 12), JOHN RUDD ILLUSTRATIONS VOLUME II