DS

_Pythian Games at Delphi_ (_B.C. 585_)
GEORGE GROTE

_Solon's Early Greek Legislation_ (_B.C. 594_)
GEORGE GROTE

_Conquests of Cyrus the Great_ (_B.C. 550_)
GEORGE GROTE

_Rise of Confucius, the Chinese Sage_ (_B.C. 550_)
R.K. DOUGLAS

_Rome Established as a Republic_
_Institution of Tribunes_ (_B.C. 510-494_)
HENRY GEORGE LIDDELL

_The Battle of Marathon_ (_B.C. 490_)
SIR EDWARD SHEPHERD CREASY

_Invasion of Greece by Persians under Xerxes_
_Defence of Thermopylae_ (_B.C. 480_)
HERODOTUS

_Universal Chronology_ (_B.C. 5867-451_)
JOHN RUDD

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

VOLUME I

_Sphinx, with Great and Second Pyramids of Gizeh_ (_page 12_)
Frontispiece From an original photograph.

_The Rosetta Stone, and Description_
Facsimile of original in the British Museum.

_The Sabine Women_--_now mothers_--_suing for peace between the
combatants_ (_their Roman husbands and their Sabine relatives_)
Painting by Jacques L. David.

THE GREAT EVENTS

BY

FAMOUS HISTORIANS

* * * * *

General Introduction

THE GREAT EVENTS BY FAMOUS HISTORIANS is the answer to a problem which
has long been agitating the learned world. How shall real history, the
ablest and profoundest work of the greatest historians, be rescued from
its present oblivion on the dusty shelves of scholars, and made welcome
to the homes of the people?

THE NATIONAL ALUMNI, an association of college men, having given this
question long and earnest discussion among themselves, sought finally
the views of a carefully elaborated list of authorities throughout
America and Europe. They consulted the foremost living historians and
professors of history, successful writers in other fields, statesmen,
university and college presidents, and prominent business men. From this
widely gathered consensus of opinions, after much comparison and sifting
of ideas, was evolved the following practical, and it would seem
incontrovertible, series of plain facts. And these all pointed toward
"THE GREAT EVENTS."

In the first place, the entire American public, from top to bottom of
the social ladder, are at this moment anxious to read history. Its
predominant importance among the varied forms of literature is fully
recognized. To understand the past is to understand the future. The
successful men in every line of life are those who look ahead, whose
keen foresight enables them to probe into