# Greek Lands and Letters Author: Allinson, Francis Greenleaf, 1856-1931; Allinson, Anne C. E. (Anne Crosby Emery), 1871-1932 Genre: Category: Mythology, Legends & Folklore Language: English License: Public domain Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/67984 Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Greek+Lands+and+Letters+Allinson&tag=cyberlibrar00-20 ## Summary Cicero, at one time studying Greek oratory in Rhodes, at another speaking Greek as the language best adapted to a Sicilian audience, suggests with sufficient definiteness the eastern and western boundaries of ancient Hellas. Leaving out of consideration more remote colonies, we may content ourselves with including in the Greater Greece of antiquity all the Mediterranean lands and waters from Sicily and Lower Italy, in the west, to Cyprus and the coast of Asia Minor, in the east. The Riviera, or seaboard of the eastern side of the Ægean, is sharply differentiated from the continuous highlands of the interior, which suggest, a short distance inland, a boundary line between Europe and Asia.... ## Chapters - [CHAPTER XVIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/greek-lands-and-letters-67984/chapters/19/index.md) - [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/greek-lands-and-letters-67984/chapters/5/index.md) - [CHAPTER XI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/greek-lands-and-letters-67984/chapters/11/index.md) - [CHAPTER XIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/greek-lands-and-letters-67984/chapters/13/index.md) - [CHAPTER XVII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/greek-lands-and-letters-67984/chapters/18/index.md) - [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/greek-lands-and-letters-67984/chapters/1/index.md) - [CHAPTER X](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/greek-lands-and-letters-67984/chapters/10/index.md) - [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/greek-lands-and-letters-67984/chapters/7/index.md) - [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/greek-lands-and-letters-67984/chapters/2/index.md) - [CHAPTER XX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/greek-lands-and-letters-67984/chapters/21/index.md) - [CHAPTER XIV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/greek-lands-and-letters-67984/chapters/14/index.md) - [CHAPTER XVI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/greek-lands-and-letters-67984/chapters/16/index.md) - [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/greek-lands-and-letters-67984/chapters/6/index.md) - [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/greek-lands-and-letters-67984/chapters/4/index.md) - [CHAPTER XII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/greek-lands-and-letters-67984/chapters/12/index.md) - [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/greek-lands-and-letters-67984/chapters/3/index.md) - [CHAPTER XX. =Page 431= Homer, _Odyssey_, IV, 1. =432= Pindar, fragment.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/greek-lands-and-letters-67984/chapters/39/index.md) - [chapter v, p. 104, and p. 105; also see chapter xi, p. 246.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/greek-lands-and-letters-67984/chapters/17/index.md) - [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/greek-lands-and-letters-67984/chapters/8/index.md) - [CHAPTER XV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/greek-lands-and-letters-67984/chapters/15/index.md) - [CHAPTER XIX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/greek-lands-and-letters-67984/chapters/20/index.md) - [CHAPTER IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/greek-lands-and-letters-67984/chapters/9/index.md) - [CHAPTER VII. =Page 144= Aristophanes, _Clouds_, 300. Aristophanes,](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/greek-lands-and-letters-67984/chapters/28/index.md) - [CHAPTER V. =Page 91= Thucydides, II, 64. =92= Æschylus, _Persians_, 347.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/greek-lands-and-letters-67984/chapters/26/index.md) - [CHAPTER XVI. =Page 323= Alpheus of Mitylene, _Anth. Pal._, IX, 101;](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/greek-lands-and-letters-67984/chapters/36/index.md) - [CHAPTER I. =Page 2= (third paragraph) Cf. Curtius, _Greek History_, I,](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/greek-lands-and-letters-67984/chapters/22/index.md) - [CHAPTER X. =Page 192= Herodotus, I, 5. =193= Pindar, _Olymp._, XIII, 65.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/greek-lands-and-letters-67984/chapters/31/index.md) - [CHAPTER XI. =Page 218= Euripides, _Andromache_, 1085. Pindar, _Pyth._,](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/greek-lands-and-letters-67984/chapters/32/index.md) - [CHAPTER XVIII. =Page 388= Pindar, _Olymp._, III, 19. =390= Lucian,](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/greek-lands-and-letters-67984/chapters/38/index.md) - [CHAPTER XIII. =Page 266= Pindar, _Isth._, VI, 1. =267= Plutarch, _On the](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/greek-lands-and-letters-67984/chapters/34/index.md) - [CHAPTER XIV. =Page 296= Hesiod, _Theogony_, I. Plato, _Symposium_, 221](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/greek-lands-and-letters-67984/chapters/35/index.md) - [CHAPTER VI. =Page 127= Pindar, _Olymp._, VI, 1. Aristophanes, _Wasps_,](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/greek-lands-and-letters-67984/chapters/27/index.md) - [CHAPTER III. =Page 57= Euripides: _Suppliants_, 403-408. Jebb, _Modern](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/greek-lands-and-letters-67984/chapters/24/index.md) - [CHAPTER IV. =Page 74= Plato, _Republic_, 532, C. Howe, _Greek](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/greek-lands-and-letters-67984/chapters/25/index.md) - [CHAPTER XVII. =Page 358= Pindar, _Olymp._, III, 27. Homer, _Iliad_, II,](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/greek-lands-and-letters-67984/chapters/37/index.md) - [CHAPTER VIII. =Page 174= Euripides, _Suppliants_, 30. =175= Euripides,](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/greek-lands-and-letters-67984/chapters/29/index.md) - [CHAPTER II. =Page 37= Thucydides, VI, 30. =38= Æschylus, _Agamemnon_,](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/greek-lands-and-letters-67984/chapters/23/index.md) - [CHAPTER IX. =Page 186= Pindar, _Pyth._, VIII, 21. Plutarch, _Life of](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/greek-lands-and-letters-67984/chapters/30/index.md) - [CHAPTER XII. =Page 250= Sophocles, _Œdipus Tyr._, 1398. =251=](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/greek-lands-and-letters-67984/chapters/33/index.md)