The Story of Civilization - Definition and Overview

The Story of Civilization by Will and Ariel Durant is an 11 volume set of books. It was written over a lifetime and totals 6 million words.

Series Outline

• I. Our Oriental Heritage (1935)

1. The Establishment of Civilization
2. The Near East
3. India and her Neighbors
4. The Far East
5. Japan

• II. The Life of Greece (1939)

1. Aegean Prelude: 3500-1000 B.C.
2. The Rise of Greece: 1000-480 B.C.
3. The Golden Age: 480-399 B.C.
4. The Decline and Fall of Greek Freedom: 399-322 B.C.
5. The Hellenistic Dispersion: 322-146 B.C.

• III. Caesar and Christ (1944)

1. The Republic: 508-30 B.C.
2. The Revolution: 145-30 B.C.
3. The Principate: 30 B.C.-A.D. 192
4. The Empire: A.D. 146-A.D. 192
5. The Youth of Christianity: 4 B.C.-A.D. 325

• IV. The Age of Faith (1950)
• V. The Renaissance (1953)
• VI. The Reformation (1957)

• VII. The Age of Reason Begins (1961)

1. The English Ecstasy: 1558-1648
2. The Faiths Fight For Power: 1556-1648
3. The Tentatives of Reason: 1558-1648

• VIII. The Age of Louis XIV (1963)
• IX. The Age of Voltaire (1965)
• X. Rousseau and Revolution (1967)
• XI. The Age of Napoleon (1975) ISBN 067121988X