In course of publication, each volume complete in itself,

EPOCHS OF ANCIENT HISTORY.

EDITED BY THE

Rev. Sir G. W. COX, Bart. M.A. late Scholar of Trin. Coll. Oxford,

AND JOINTLY BY

CHARLES SANKEY, M.A. late Scholar of Queen's Coll. Oxford.

The GRACCHI, MARIUS, and SULLA. By A. H. BEESLY, M.A. Assistant-Master, Marlborough College. With 2 Maps. Fcp. 8vo. price 2s. 6d. The EARLY ROMAN EMPIRE. From the Assassination of Julius Cæsar to the Assassination of Domitian. By the Rev. W. WOLFE CAPES, M.A. With 2 Coloured Maps. Fcp. 8vo. price 2s. 6d.

The ROMAN EMPIRE of the SECOND CENTURY, or the AGE of the ANTONINES. By the Rev. W. WOLFE CAPES, M.A. With 2 Coloured Maps. Fcp. 8vo. price 2s. 6d.

The ATHENIAN EMPIRE from the FLIGHT of XERXES to the FALL of ATHENS. By the Rev. Sir G. W. Cox, Bart. M.A. Joint-Editor of the Series. With 5 Maps. Fcp. 8vo. price 2s. 6d. The GREEKS and the PERSIANS.

By the Rev. Sir G. W. Cox,

Bart. M.A. Joint-Editor of the Series. With 4 Coloured Maps. Fcp. 8vo. 2s. 6d. The RISE of the MACEDONIAN EMPIRE. BY ARTHUR M. CURTEIS, M.A. formerly Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford. With 8 Maps. Fcp. 8vo. 2s. 6d. ROME to its CAPTURE by the GAULS. By WILHELM IHNE, Author of 'History of Rome.' With a Coloured Map. Fcp. 8vo. price 2s. 6d. The ROMAN TRIUMVIRATES. By the Very Rev. CHARLES MERIVALE, D.D. Dean of Ely. With a Coloured Map. Fcp. 8vo. price 2s. 6d. SPARTAN and THEBAN SUPREMACIES. By CHARLES SANKEY, M.A. Joint-Editor of the Series, Assistant-Master in Marlborough College. With 5 Maps. Fcp. 8vo. price 2s. 6d.

before us a vivid picture of the causes that led to that eminent man's condemnation. The characters of the other im portant actors in the history of that time are equally well brought out, and the reader rises from the perusal of the work ready to carry his researches further into more voluminous pages, with an increased zest in consequence of having had the whole train of events passed in a clear and rapid review before him. The Greeks carried their wars over that part of Western Asia where the Russians are now attacking the Turks, and the changes in the modern nomenclature of the maps are so great that nothing but the conformation of the country remains the same. There are five Maps, and an excellent Index.' SCHOOLMASTER.

The period of history covered by this volume is full both of interest and importance. It embraces about seventy years, and treats of that grave period in the history of the Greeks when Sparta over-ran and subdued Athens, and destroyed its rule and power everywhere. This was followed by the rise and success for a time of Thebes. It was the transition period from the glories of the Athenian Empire to the degradation of the Macedonian Conquest. The stirring events of the time are remarkably well related, and the characters of great men who took a part in the momentous struggle are well pourtrayed. Spartan rule was a tyrannical and corrupt rule. It was under this rule that SOCRATES was condemned to death, and we have placed ROME and CARTHAGE, the PUNIC WARS. SMITH, M.A. Assistant-Master, Harrow School.

By R. BoswORTH [In preparation.

London, LONGMANS & CO.

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