Jacob Abbott was a well-known 19th century historian who wrote biographies on various leaders and famous individuals, including this one about the Persian emperor Xerxes, who led the Second Persian War with his massive invasion of Greece. The war is remembered for the Battle of Thermopylae and the ultimate Greek victory after Salamis.
Jacob Abbott was a well-known 19th century historian who wrote biographies on various leaders and famous individuals, including this one about the Per...
Jacob Abbott was a well-known 19th century historian who wrote biographies on various leaders and famous individuals, including this one about the last Egyptian pharaoh, Cleopatra. During one of the most turbulent periods in the history of Rome, men like Julius Caesar, Mark Antony, and Octavian participated in two civil wars that would spell the end of the Roman Republic and determine who would become the Roman emperor. In the middle of it all was history's most famous woman, the Egyptian pharaoh Cleopatra (69-30 B.C.), who famously seduced both Caesar and Antony and thereby positioned...
Jacob Abbott was a well-known 19th century historian who wrote biographies on various leaders and famous individuals, including this one about the las...
Jacob Abbott was a well-known 19th century historian who wrote biographies on various leaders and famous individuals, including this one about Julius Caesar. Possibly the most important man of antiquity, and even all of history, was Julius Caesar. Alexander Hamilton, the famous American patriot, once remarked that "the greatest man who ever lived was Julius Caesar." Such a tribute, coming from one of the Founding Fathers of the quintessential modern democracy in reference to a man who destroyed the Roman Republic, is testament to the enduring mark that Caesar left upon the world. The ultimate...
Jacob Abbott was a well-known 19th century historian who wrote biographies on various leaders and famous individuals, including this one about Julius ...
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In respect to the heroes of ancient history, who lived in times antecedent to the period when the regular records of authentic history commence, no reliance can be placed upon the actual verity of the accounts which have come down to us of their lives and actions. In those ancient days there was, in fact, no line of demarkation between romance and history, and the stories which were told of Cyrus, Darius, Xerxes, Romulus, Pyrrhus, and other personages as ancient as they, are all more or less fabulous and mythical.
In respect to the heroes of ancient history, who lived in times antecedent to the period when the regular records of authentic history commence, no re...
