History of Xerxes the Great
By Jacob Abbott. The story of Xerxes the Great (circa 519–465 BC), the fourth king of the Persian Achaemenid Empire,…
History of Romulus
By Jacob Abbott. More than just a marvelously-told history of the life of the founder of Rome, this work by…
History of Nero
By Jacob Abbott. The violent, bloody, and incredible story of Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus (37–68 AD), who was Roman…
History of Darius the Great
By Jacob Abbott. The story of the founder of the Achaemenid, or the First Persian Empire, Darius I (c. 550–486 BC) is…
History of Cyrus the Great
By Jacob Abbott. Cyrus II of Persia (c. 600–530 BC) was the founder of the Achaemenid Empire, which expanded to…
Hannibal
By Jacob Abbott. Rome or Carthage: the struggle between these two great powers of the ancient world determined the course of western…
Cleopatra
By Jacob Abbott. Cleopatra VII was more than the last Macedonian Queen of Egypt. She was a femme fatale of…
Conqueror of the World: Alexander the Great
By Jacob Abbott. By the age of 33, Alexander of Macedon had conquered most of the known world and would…