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Title: Beacon lights of history. (The world's heroes and master minds)
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Lord, John, 1810-1894
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Publisher: New York, J. Clarke
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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y 324 ^schylus, Sophocles, and Euripides 325-328 Greek comedy, Aristophanes 328 Roman poetry 330 Nsevius, Plautus, Terence 331, 334 Roman epic poetry, Virgil 335 Lyrical poetry, Horace, Catullus 336-338 Didactic poetry, Lucretius 338 Elegiac poetry, Ovid, TibuUus 339-341 Satire, Horace, Martial, Juvenal 342, 343 Perfection of Greek prose writers 344 History, Herodotus 345 Thucydides, Xenophon 347-349 Roman historians 349 Julius Caesar 351 Livy 353 Tacitus 354 Orators 360 Pericles 362 Demosthenes 363 ^schines 365 Cicero 366 Learned men, Varro 371 Seneca 372 Quintilian 373 Lucian 374 Authorities 377 LIST OP ILLUSTRATIONS. Volume I. Paok Ciceros Oration against Catiline Frontispiece Dr. John Lord in his Library 27 Temple of the Sun 34 Car of Juggernaut 76 Buddhist Temple 100 Apollo Belvidere 114 Confucian Temple 152 Socrates 208 Plato and Aristotle 220 Socrates Instructing Alcibiades 258 Phidias 286 Homer 322 Demosthenes 364 ANCIENT RELIGIONS: EGYPTIAN, ASSYRIAN, BABYLONIAN, AND PERSIAN.
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Ajtvr n iKiiiitiiKj by Aiiine A. LordDR. JOHN LORD IN HIS LIBRARY ^ £_^^^6c^ ^■t^M~ ^-v-f- c^^e^^^ ^ L/>^c^\t^ BEACON LIGHTS. ANCIENT RELIGIONS: EGYPTIAN, ASSYRIAN, BABYLONIAN, AND PERSIAN. TT is my object in this book on the old Pagan■■- civilizations to present the salient points only,since an exhaustive work is impossible within thelimits of a single volume. The practical end whichI have in view is to collate a sufficient number ofacknowledged facts from which to draw sound infer-ences in reference to the progress of the human race,and the comparative welfare of nations iu ancientand modern times. The first inquiry we naturally make is in regardto the various religious systems which were acceptedby the ancient nations, since religion, in some formor other, is the most universal of institutions, and hashad the earliest and the greatest influence on the con-dition and life of peoples — that is to say, on their 28 ANCIENT RELIGIONS: civilizations — in every period of the

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