History and Legend In the Ancient World

This e-book offers historical facts concerning the Mitanni, the city of Mari, the ancient Olympic games, and Cyrus the Great of Persia. It also treats the Gilgamesh Epic, the odes of Horace,"Theogony" and "Works and Days" of Hesiod, material from Greek mythology as presented by "Biblioteca." The article on Cyrus the Great presents material from the book of Isaiah showing how the Lord used Cyrus to further His salutary ends. This edition adds articles on ancient Kanesh, the Greek flood legend, the kingdom of Urartu, the Egyptian Pharaoh Nebkaure, and Amenemhet, the founder of the twelfth dynasty of Egypt.