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Duffield Osborne Rome versus Carthage W. Heinemann
LORDS OF THE WORLD -- A. J. Church Rome versus Carthage. Blackie & Son
THE SISTERS -- Georg Ehers (trans.) Egypt--Ptolemy Philometer, and Euergetes Sampson Low & Co.
THE HAMMER -- A. J. Church and R. Seeley Maccabaean Times Seeley & Co.
DEBORAH -- J. M. Ludlow Maccabaean Times J. Nisbet & Co.
HELON'S PILGRIMAGE TO JERUSALEM -- F. Strauss (trans.) Judaism in the Century preceding Christ J. Mawman, London, 1824
PRUSIAS -- Ernst Eckstein (trans.) The Slave Revolt under Spartacus. Trubner & Co.
TWO THOUSAND YEARS AGO -- A. J. Church Rome--Spartacus and Mithridates Blackie & Son
WOE TO THE CONQUERED -- Alfred Clark Roman Life, B. C. 73-71 Sampson Low & Co.
A FRIEND OF CAESAR -- W. S. Davis Pompey and Caesar Macmillan & Co.
CLEOPATRA -- Georg Ebers (trans.) Latter Years of Cleopatra. Sampson Low & Co.

FIRST CENTURY A.D.
NEAERA -- John W. Graham Rome under Tiberius (A. D. 26) Macmillan & Co.
PHILOCHRISTUS -- Anonymous Memoirs of a Disciple of Christ Macmillan & Co.
BEN HUR -- Lew Wallace Rome in the time of Christ Harper & Brothers, and others
TARRY THOU TILL I COME (Salathiel) -- G. Croly Judaism and Christianity (the early struggle) Funk & Wagnalls Co.
AS OTHERS SAW HIM -- Anonymous Early Christianity (A. D. 54) W. Heinemann
BERIC THE BRITON -- G. A. Henty Roman Invasion of Britain Blackie & Son
ONESIMUS-- Anonymous Memoirs of a Disciple of Paul Macmillan & Co.
QUO VADIS? -- H. Sienkiewicz (trans.) Rome in the time of Nero J. M. Dent & Co.
NERO -- Ernst Eckstein (trans.) Rome in the time of Nero Trubner & Co.
THE BURNING OF ROME -- A. J. Church Rome in the time of Nero Seeley & Co.
ACTE -- Hugh Westbury Rome in the time of Nero Bentley
DARKNESS AND DAWN -- Dean Farrar Persecutions under Nero Longmans, Green, & Co.
THE LAST DAYS OF POMPEII -- Lytton Time of Vespasian Geo. Routledge & Sons
THE GLADIATORS -- G. J. Whyte Melville Fall of Jerusalem W. Thacker & Co. and Ward, Lock, & Co.
DOMITIA -- S. Baring-Gould Time of Domitian Methuen & Co.
MASTERS OF THE WORLD -- Mary A. M. Hoppus Time of Domitian Bentley, 1888
QUINTUS CLAUDIUS -- Ernst Eckstein (trans.) Time of Domitian W. S. Gottsberger

SECOND CENTURY.
VALERIUS -- J. G. Lockhart Time of Trajan (Rome) W. Blackwood & Sons
TO THE LIONS -- A. J. Church Christians and the Younger Pliny Seeley & Co.
ANTINOUS -- George Taylor (trans.) Time of Hadrian William S. Gottsberger, New York, 1882
MARIUS THE EPICUREAN -- W. Pater Time of Marcus Aurelius Macmillan & Co.

THIRD CENTURY.
PER ASPERA -- Georg Ebers (trans.) Alexandria in time of Emperor Caracalla Sampson Low & Co.
PERPETUA -- S. Baring-Gould Nimes--beginning of Third Century Isbister & Co.
THE CAMP ON THE SEVERN -- A. D. Crake Persecution in Britain Mowbray & Co.
THE VILLA OF CLAUDIUS -- E. L. Cutts Roman occupation of Britain Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge
CALLISTA -- J. H. Newman North Africa persecutions Longmans, Green, & Co.
*THE EPICUREAN -- Thomas Moore Worship of Isis (Egypt) Downey & Co.
* This tale, it must be admitted, is given a place mainly on account of its literary interest; as a historical romance it has been very severely criticised.
AURELIAN -- W. Ware Rome--late Third Century Warne & Co.
THE LAST DAYS AND FALL OF PALMYRA (ZENOBIA) -- W. Ware Zenobia and Longinus Cassell & Co. ("Red Library," 1890)

FOURTH CENTURY.
HOMO SUM -- Georg Ebers (trans.) Christians in Arabia Sampson Low & Co.
*OUR FOREFATHERS (Die Ahnen) -- Gustav Freytag (trans.) Germany A. D. 357 Asher & Co., 1873
* The collective title of a series in which the history of a family is made to illustrate successive stages of German Civilisation. The English translation does not extend beyond the first two stories, dealing with the years 357 and 724 respectively; the remaining four stories (published by Hirzel of Leipsic, 1874-80) depict German life in 1226, 1519, 1647, and 1805.
THE LAST ATHENIAN -- V. Rydberg (trans.) Athens A. D. 361 T. B. Peterson & Brothers, Philadelphia
*THE DEATH OF THE GODS -- D. Merejkowski (trans.) The Emperor Julian Constable & Co.
* No. 1 of the trilogy "Christ and Anti-Christ."
JETTA -- George Taylor (trans.) Heidelberg under the Romans Trubner & Co., 1886
SERAPIS -- Georg Ebers (trans.) Alexandria A. D. 391 Trubner & Co., 1885
A DUKE OF BRITAIN -- Sir Herbert Maxwell Picts and Romans W. Blackwood & Sons

FIFTH CENTURY.
GATHERING CLOUDS -- Dean Farrar Chrysostom [late Fourth--early Fifth Century] Longmans, Green, & Co.
CONQUERING AND TO CONQUER -- Mrs. Charles Jerome [late Fourth--early Fifth Century] Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge
FABIOLA -- Cardinal Wiseman Rome early Fifth Century Burns, 1855
HYPATIA -- Charles Kingsley Alexandria Macmillan & Co.
THE COUNT OF THE SAXON SHORE -- A. J. Church Departure of Romans from Britain Seeley & Co.
ATTILA -- G. P. R. James Decline of Roman Empire Warne & Co.
FELICITAS -- Felix Dahn (trans.) The German Migrations, A. D. 476 Macmillan & Co.

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