The Macedonian Empire. E-book. Formato EPUB Arthur Curteis   -  Ozymandias Press, 2018  - 

“The history of a nation is by no means to be regarded solely as a consequence of the natural condition of its local habitations”. So writes one of the latest of Greek historians in the midst of a graphic description of the climate and physical characteristics of the shores of the Aegean. But the stress which he lays on these characteristics, and the inferences which he draws from them, show that he considers them to have been a strongly determining cause of the history of the peoples who dwelt upon those shores. It is indeed impossible to suppose that, had the Greeks been inhabitants of a level inland country, they would have remained so long disunited, or would have shown (as they did) the restless activity characteristic of the seaman; and we shall have evidence in the following pages of the extraordinary endurance of Greeks amid sudden changes of climate, as well as of their superiority to Asiatics in bodily not less than mental vigour. That some part of this vigour was owing to the country in which they lived will hardly be denied...

The Macedonian Empire. E-book. Formato Mobipocket Arthur Curteis   -  Ozymandias Press, 2018  - 

“The history of a nation is by no means to be regarded solely as a consequence of the natural condition of its local habitations”. So writes one of the latest of Greek historians in the midst of a graphic description of the climate and physical characteristics of the shores of the Aegean. But the stress which he lays on these characteristics, and the inferences which he draws from them, show that he considers them to have been a strongly determining cause of the history of the peoples who dwelt upon those shores. It is indeed impossible to suppose that, had the Greeks been inhabitants of a level inland country, they would have remained so long disunited, or would have shown (as they did) the restless activity characteristic of the seaman; and we shall have evidence in the following pages of the extraordinary endurance of Greeks amid sudden changes of climate, as well as of their superiority to Asiatics in bodily not less than mental vigour. That some part of this vigour was owing to the country in which they lived will hardly be denied...

History of the Roman Empire: From the Death of Theodosius the Great to the Coronation of Charles the Great, A. D. 395-800 With Maps. E-book. Formato PDF Arthur M. Curteis   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

This book is the substance of a course of lectures, delivered to the two highest Forms in Sherborne School. It is meant to be a help towards bridging over the gulf between the two sections Of history, which are popularly supposed to divide a little after the Christian era into ancient and modern. Such a division, however, produces error and con fusion, by obscuring the unity and continuity Of history; the teaching of which loses half its value, if we forget that Ancient is the parent of Medi aeva and therefore Of Modern history, and that Imperial Rome is the centre and meeting-point of all history an Universal Empire in which all earlier history loses itself, and out of which all later history grew.1 The position of Theodoric, Charles, or Frederick cannot be understood without reference to that earlier Empire Of Theodosius, Constantine, and Trajan, of which the later was a direct conse quence.