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. FROM THE GERMAN OF PROFESSOR MAX DUNCKER, BY EVELYN ABBOTT, M.A., LL.D., _FELLOW AND TUTOR OF BALLIOL COLLEGE, OXFORD._ VOL. VI. LONDON: RICHARD BENTLEY & SON, NEW BURLINGTON STREET, Publishers in Ordinary to Her Majesty the Queen. 1882. Bungay: CLAY AND TAYLOR, PRINTERS. CONTENTS. BOOK VIII. (_CONTINUED._) _THE EMPIRE OF THE MEDES AND PERSIANS._ CHAPTER VI. PAGE THE FALL OF THE LYDIAN EMPIRE 3 CHAPTER VII. THE SUBJUGATION OF ASIA MINOR 47 CHAPTER VIII. THE FALL OF BABYLON 66 CHAPTER IX. THE KINGDOM OF CYRUS 100 CHAPTER X. THE FALL OF EGYPT 131 CHAPTER XI. THE MARCH TO MEROE 152 CHAPTER XII. THE DEATH OF CAMBYSES 168 CHAPTER XIII. THE RISE OF DARIUS 201 CHAPTER XIV. THE REBELLIONS IN THE PROVINCES 228 CHAPTER XV. THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF DARIUS ON THE INDUS AND THE DANUBE 258 CHAPTER XVI. THE CONQUESTS IN AFRICA AND EUROPE 299 CHAPTER XVII. THE STATE OF DARIUS 315 CHAPTER XVIII. THE FINANCE AND ARMY OF DARIUS 344 CHAPTER XIX. THE COURT OF DARIUS 368 CHAPTER XX. RETROSPECT 398 BOOK VIII. (_CONTINUED._) THE EMPIRE OF THE MEDES AND PERSIANS. EASTERN IRAN. CHAPTER VI. THE FALL OF THE LYDIAN EMPIRE.