Rossiter Johnson 
The Great Events of World History – Volume 3 

Volume 3 of the Great Events of World History! Featuring: GERMANICUS IN GERMANY, by Tacitus THE CRUCIFIXION, by Frederic Farrar THE RISE AND SPREAD OF CHRISTIANITY, by Renan, Wise & Newman BURNING OF ROME UNDER NERO, by Sienkiewicz & Tacitus PERSECUTION OF THE CHRISTIANS UNDER NERO, by Frederic Farrar THE GREAT JEWISH REVOLT & THE SIEGE AND DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM, by Josephus DESTRUCTION OF POMPEII, by Pliny & Lytton THE JEWS' LAST STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM: THEIR FINAL DISPERSION, by Charles Merivale MARTYRDOM OF POLYCARP AND JUSTIN MARTYR & POLYCARP'S EPISTLE TO THE PHILIPPIANS, by H. Cox & Polycarp PERSECUTION OF THE CHRISTIANS IN GAUL, by Francois Guizot BEGINNING OF ROME'S DECLINE: COMMODUS, by Edward Gibbon EVENTFUL REIGN OF SAPOR I, KING OF PERSIA, by George Rawlinson CONVERSION OF CONSTANTINE & THE DECLINE OF PAGANISM, by Johann von Mosheim FIRST NICENE COUNCIL & THE RISE AND DECLINE OF ARIANISM, by Mosheim & Stanley FOUNDATION OF CONSTANTINOPLE, by Edward Gibbon JULIAN THE APOSTATE BECOMES EMPEROR OF ROME, by Edward Gibbon THE HUNS AND THEIR WESTERN MIGRATION, by Marcellinus FINAL DIVISION OF ROMAN EMPIRE: THE DISRUPTIVE INTRIGUES, by J.B. Bury