The Ancient East By: D. G. (David George) Hogarth (1862-1927)
First Page: HOME UNIVERSITY LIBRARY OF MODERN KNOWLEDGE No. 92 Editors : HERBERT FISHER, M.A., F.B.A. PROF. GILBERT MURRAY, LITT.D., LL.D., F.B.A. PROF. J. ARTHUR THOMSON, M.A. PROF. WILLIAM T. BREWSTER, M.A. THE ANCIENT EAST BY D. G. HOGARTH, M.A., F.B.A., F.S.A. KEEPER OF THE ASHMOLEAN MUSEUM, OXFORD; AUTHOR OF "IONIA AND THE EAST," "THE NEARER EAST," ETC. CONTENTS INTRODUCTORY I THE EAST IN 1000 B.C. II THE EAST IN 800 B.C. III THE EAST IN 600 B.C. IV THE EAST IN 400 B.C. V THE VICTORY OF THE WEST VI EPILOGUE NOTE ON BOOKS LIST OF MAPS 1. THE REGION OF THE ANCIENT EAST AND ITS MAIN DIVISIONS 2. ASIATIC EMPIRE OF EGYPT. TEMP. AMENHETEP III 3. HATTI EMPIRE AT ITS GREATEST EXTENT. EARLY 13TH CENTURY B.C. 4. ASSYRIAN EMPIRE AT ITS GREATEST EXTENT. EARLY YEARS OF ASHURBANIPAL 5. PERSIAN EMPIRE (WEST) AT ITS GREATEST EXTENT. TEMP. DARIUS HYSTASPIS 6. HELLENISM IN ASIA. ABOUT 150 B.C. THE ANCIENT EAST INTRODUCTORY The title of this book needs a word of explanation, since each of its terms can legitimately be used to denote more than one conception both of time and place. "The East" is understood widely and vaguely nowadays to include all the continent and islands of Asia, some part of Africa the northern part where society and conditions of life are most like the Asiatic and some regions also of South Eastern and Eastern Europe. Therefore it may appear arbitrary to restrict it in the present book to Western Asia. But the qualifying term in my title must be invoked in justification. It is the East not of to day but of antiquity with which I have to deal, and, therefore, I plead that it is not unreasonable to understand by "The East" what in antiquity European historians understood by that term. To Herodotus and his contemporary Greeks Egypt, Arabia and India were the South; Thrace and Scythia were the North; and Hither Asia was the East: for they conceived nothing beyond except the fabled stream of Ocean. It can be pleaded also that my restriction, while not in itself arbitrary, does, in fact, obviate an otherwise inevitable obligation to fix arbitrary bounds to the East. For the term, as used in modern times, implies a geographical area characterized by society of a certain general type, and according to his opinion of this type, each person, who thinks or writes of the East, expands or contracts its geographical area. It is more difficult to justify the restriction which will be imposed in the following chapters on the word Ancient. This term is used even more vaguely and variously than the other. If generally it connotes the converse of "Modern," in some connections and particularly in the study of history the Modern is not usually understood to begin where the Ancient ended but to stand only for the comparatively Recent. For example, in History, the ill defined period called the Middle and Dark Ages makes a considerable hiatus before, in the process of retrospection, we get back to a civilization which (in Europe at least) we ordinarily regard as Ancient. Again, in History, we distinguish commonly two provinces within the undoubted area of the Ancient, the Prehistoric and the Historic, the first comprising all the time to which human memory, as communicated by surviving literature, ran not, or, at least, not consciously, consistently and credibly. At the same time it is not implied that we can have no knowledge at all of the Prehistoric province. It may even be better known to us than parts of the Historic, through sure deduction from archaeological evidence. But what we learn from archaeological records is annalistic not historic, since such records have not passed through the transforming crucible of a human intelligence which reasons on events as effects of causes. The boundary between Prehistoric and Historic, however, depends too much on the subjectivity of individual historians and is too apt to vary with the progress of research to be a fixed moment... Continue reading book >>

The Ancient East By: D. G. (David George) Hogarth (1862-1927)

First Page:

HOME UNIVERSITY LIBRARY OF MODERN KNOWLEDGE

No. 92

Editors :

HERBERT FISHER, M.A., F.B.A. PROF. GILBERT MURRAY, LITT.D., LL.D., F.B.A. PROF. J. ARTHUR THOMSON, M.A. PROF. WILLIAM T. BREWSTER, M.A.

THE ANCIENT EAST

D. G. HOGARTH, M.A., F.B.A., F.S.A.

KEEPER OF THE ASHMOLEAN MUSEUM, OXFORD; AUTHOR OF "IONIA AND THE EAST," "THE NEARER EAST," ETC.

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTORY

I THE EAST IN 1000 B.C.

II THE EAST IN 800 B.C.

III THE EAST IN 600 B.C.

IV THE EAST IN 400 B.C.

V THE VICTORY OF THE WEST

VI EPILOGUE

NOTE ON BOOKS

LIST OF MAPS

1. THE REGION OF THE ANCIENT EAST AND ITS MAIN DIVISIONS

2. ASIATIC EMPIRE OF EGYPT. TEMP. AMENHETEP III

3. HATTI EMPIRE AT ITS GREATEST EXTENT. EARLY 13TH CENTURY B.C.

4. ASSYRIAN EMPIRE AT ITS GREATEST EXTENT. EARLY YEARS OF ASHURBANIPAL

5. PERSIAN EMPIRE (WEST) AT ITS GREATEST EXTENT. TEMP. DARIUS HYSTASPIS

6. HELLENISM IN ASIA. ABOUT 150 B.C.

THE ANCIENT EAST

INTRODUCTORY

The title of this book needs a word of explanation, since each of its terms can legitimately be used to denote more than one conception both of time and place. "The East" is understood widely and vaguely nowadays to include all the continent and islands of Asia, some part of Africa the northern part where society and conditions of life are most like the Asiatic and some regions also of South Eastern and Eastern Europe. Therefore it may appear arbitrary to restrict it in the present book to Western Asia. But the qualifying term in my title must be invoked in justification. It is the East not of to day but of antiquity with which I have to deal, and, therefore, I plead that it is not unreasonable to understand by "The East" what in antiquity European historians understood by that term. To Herodotus and his contemporary Greeks Egypt, Arabia and India were the South; Thrace and Scythia were the North; and Hither Asia was the East: for they conceived nothing beyond except the fabled stream of Ocean. It can be pleaded also that my restriction, while not in itself arbitrary, does, in fact, obviate an otherwise inevitable obligation to fix arbitrary bounds to the East. For the term, as used in modern times, implies a geographical area characterized by society of a certain general type, and according to his opinion of this type, each person, who thinks or writes of the East, expands or contracts its geographical area.

It is more difficult to justify the restriction which will be imposed in the following chapters on the word Ancient. This term is used even more vaguely and variously than the other. If generally it connotes the converse of "Modern," in some connections and particularly in the study of history the Modern is not usually understood to begin where the Ancient ended but to stand only for the comparatively Recent. For example, in History, the ill defined period called the Middle and Dark Ages makes a considerable hiatus before, in the process of retrospection, we get back to a civilization which (in Europe at least) we ordinarily regard as Ancient. Again, in History, we distinguish commonly two provinces within the undoubted area of the Ancient, the Prehistoric and the Historic, the first comprising all the time to which human memory, as communicated by surviving literature, ran not, or, at least, not consciously, consistently and credibly. At the same time it is not implied that we can have no knowledge at all of the Prehistoric province. It may even be better known to us than parts of the Historic, through sure deduction from archaeological evidence. But what we learn from archaeological records is annalistic not historic, since such records have not passed through the transforming crucible of a human intelligence which reasons on events as effects of causes. The boundary between Prehistoric and Historic, however, depends too much on the subjectivity of individual historians and is too apt to vary with the progress of research to be a fixed moment... Continue reading book >>

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