Category: History - Ancient
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§ 79. The interference of the Romans in Greek affairs reopened many of the constitutional questions upon which I have touched; for in their conflicts with Macedon they took care...
11. CHAPTER I.§ 1. There are scientific problems and literary tasks which can be worked out once for all, or which, at least, admit of final solution, to the lasting fame of him that finds th...
13. CHAPTER III.§ 27. We may now pass from so-called legend to so-called early history. All students, from Thucydides downward, have held that shortly after the state of things described in Hom...
12. CHAPTER II.§ 14. We may now pass to the more modern treatment of the myths and mythical history of Greece. There are before us the essays of several men since the monumental work of Grote....
17. CHAPTER VIII.§ 54. Let us now pass on to the practical politicians of the day, or to those who professed to be practical politicians, and see what they had to propose in the way of improving...
16. CHAPTER VI.§ 46. What may most properly make the modern historian pause and revise his judgment of the Athenian democracy, is the evident dislike which the most thoughtful classes, represe...
15. CHAPTER V.It is our peculiar good fortune to have these two wars narrated respectively by the two greatest historians that Greece produced,--Herodotus and Thucydides. Unfortunately, perha...
19. CHAPTER IX.§ 69. The period which follows the death of Alexander is one so complicated with wars and alliances, with combinations and defections, with reshapings of the world's kingdoms[16...
14. CHAPTER IV.§ 34. At last we emerge into the open light of day, and find ourselves in the seventh century (more strictly 650-550 B.C.), in that brilliant, turbulent, enterprising society wh...
18. CHAPTER VIII.§ 63. As I have said already, the death of Demosthenes is the favourite terminus for the political historians of Greece. But let us not grow weary,--let us survey the fortunes o...
10. CHAPTER X.2. CHAPTER II.The analogy of Indian and Persian mythology, expounded by Professor Max Müller, founded on very wide learning 38 long since shown inadequate, because it implies sentimental sava...
1. CHAPTER I.7. CHAPTER VII.6. CHAPTER VI.3. CHAPTER III.9. CHAPTER IX.5. CHAPTER V.8. CHAPTER VIII.4. CHAPTER IV.