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  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                                                    