Produced by Adrian Mastronardi and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) 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. PHOENICIA. ISRAEL._ CHAPTER I. PAGE 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. PHOENICIA. ISRAEL. ASSYRIA. CHAPTER I. THE STORY OF NINUS AND SEMIRAMIS.