The History of the World

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Of the Creation, and Presentation of the World....Pages 85-118
Of mans estate in his first Creation, and of Gods rest....Pages 119-120
Of the place of Paradise....Pages 131-134
Of the two chiefe Trees in the Garden of Paradise....Pages 134-143
Of diuers memorable things betweene the fall of Adam, and the floud of Noah....Pages 143-145
Of idolatrous corruptions, quickly rising, and hardly at length vanishing in the world: and of the Reliques of Truth touching these ancient times, obscurely appearing in fables and old Legends....Pages 146-154
Of the beginning and establishing of Gouernement....Pages 154-155
of Nimrod, Belvs, and Ninvs: and of memorable thinges about those times....Pages 155-155
Of Zoroaster, supposed to haue beene the chiefe Authour of Magick Arts; and of the diuers kinds of Magicke....Pages 156-164
Of the memorable buildings of Ninvs, and of his wife Semiramis: and of other of her actes....Pages 165-165
Of the time of the birth of Abraham; and of the vse of this question, for the ordering of the Storie of the Assyrian Empire....Pages 165-169
Of the Kings of Ægypt from the first peopling of it after the Floud, to the time of the deliverie of the Israelites from thence....Pages 169-175
Of the delivery of Israel out of Ægypt....Pages 179-179
Of the iournying of the Israelites from the Red Sea, to the place where the Law was giuen them: with a discourse of Lawes....Pages 179-179
The Storie of the Israelites from the receiuing of the Law, to the death of Moses....Pages 180-180
Of the Nations with whom the Israelites had dealing after their comming out of Ægypt…....Pages 184-200
Of the Tribes of Israel…....Pages 200-200
Of the Kingdom of Phœnicia....Pages 202-202
Of the Tribe of Ephraim …....Pages 202-202
Of the memorable places of Dan, Simeon, Ivda, Rvben, Gad …....Pages 202-202
The Historie of the Syrians…....Pages 202-202
Of the Tribe of Beniamin, and of Hierusalem....Pages 203-203
Of the memorable thinges that happened in the world, from the death of Iosva to the Warre of Troy: which was about the time of Iephtha....Pages 203-203
Of the Warre of Troy....Pages 203-203
Of Sampson, Eli, and Samvel....Pages 203-209
Of Savl....Pages 209-209
Of Salomon....Pages 210-210
Of Salomons Successors until the end of Iehosaphat....Pages 210-210
Of Iehoram the sonne of Iehosaphat, and Ahazia....Pages 210-210
of Athalia....Pages 210-210
0f Vzzia....Pages 210-212
0f the Antiquities of Italie, and foundation of Rome in the time of Ahas....Pages 212-212
Of Ezekia, and his Contemporaries....Pages 212-217
Of the Kings that raigned in Ægypt…....Pages 217-217
Of Manasse(s) and his Contemporaries....Pages 217-217
Of the times from the death of Manasses to the destruction of Ierusalem....Pages 217-217
Of the time passing betweene the destruction of Ierusalem, and the fall of the Assyrian Empire....Pages 218-218
Of the originall and first greatnesse of the Persians....Pages 218-218
Of Cyrvs....Pages 218-218
The estate of things from the death of Cyrvs to the Raigne of Darivs....Pages 218-218
Of Darivs the Sonne of Hyspaspes....Pages 221-221
Of Xerxes....Pages 222-222
Of things that passed in Greece from the end of the Persian Warre to the beginning of the Peloponnesian....Pages 222-222
Of the Peloponnesian Warre....Pages 222-222
Of matters concurring with the Peloponnesian Warre....Pages 222-222
Of the expedition of Cyrvs the younger....Pages 222-232
Of the affaires of Greece, whitest they were managed by the Lacedœmonians....Pages 232-232
Of the flourishing estate of Thebes, from the battaile of Leuctra to the battaile of Mantiœa....Pages 233-233
Of Philip, the Father of Alexander the Great, King of Macedon....Pages 233-233
Of Alexander the Great....Pages 233-233
The raigne of Aridævs....Pages 233-233
0f the great ciuill Warre betweene Alexanders Captaines…....Pages 233-240
0f the warres betweene… Alexanders Princes…....Pages 243-243
The growth of Rome: and setling of the Easterne Kingdomes....Pages 243-320
Of the first Punick Warre....Pages 320-320
Of diners actions passing betweene the first and second Punick Warres....Pages 320-320
Of the second Punick Warre....Pages 320-320
The second Macedonian Warre....Pages 320-320
Back Matter....Pages 321-321
....Pages 325-350