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... preserved , but extracts from it , comprising the thirty dynasties , more or less entire , together with the Tables of Eratosthenes , are embodied in the Chronographia of George Syncellus , a Byzantine @monk of the ninth century A.D. ...
... preserved , but extracts from it , comprising the thirty dynasties , more or less entire , together with the Tables of Eratosthenes , are embodied in the Chronographia of George Syncellus , a Byzantine @monk of the ninth century A.D. ...
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... preserved in the temples lists of the kings , town annals , and accounts of important events . The correspondence of Solomon and Hiram , King of Tyre , is alluded to in Scripture . It is evi- dent that the Phoenician archives survived ...
... preserved in the temples lists of the kings , town annals , and accounts of important events . The correspondence of Solomon and Hiram , King of Tyre , is alluded to in Scripture . It is evi- dent that the Phoenician archives survived ...
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... preserved a great volume of his Letters and State Papers ( Variae ) , val- uable as these documents are . The reading public of the sixth century— which by that time had shrunk wholly to churchmen - was too indif- ferent to secular ...
... preserved a great volume of his Letters and State Papers ( Variae ) , val- uable as these documents are . The reading public of the sixth century— which by that time had shrunk wholly to churchmen - was too indif- ferent to secular ...
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CHAPTER PAGE I THE ANCIENT ORIENT | 3 |
ANCIENT GREEK HISTORIOGRAPHY | 21 |
THE ALEXANDRIAN AND POSTALEXANDRIAN EPOCH | 41 |
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