Category: History - Ancient
It is proved by similarities in the languages of the European peoples and the Hindus and the Persians that they had in some sense a common origin. It is not indeed probable that they are sprung from the same parents: but their ancestors once formed a group of closely associate...
It is proved by similarities in the languages of the European peoples and the Hindus and the Persians that they had in some sense a common origin. It is not indeed probable that...
2. CHAPTER II.The subject matter of the study of politics consists firstly of the groups or collections of men who have lived under governments, and secondly of the governments under which th...
3. chapter I wish to speak of the groups, to describe in outline thevarious forms which they have taken, and to define the names by which their forms are severally known. I must premise that I shall call some of the groups political communities,...
4. CHAPTER III.Hellas, the land of the Greeks, is about equal in size to half of Scotland or Ireland or to a third of England[15]. It is intersected by a network of continuous mountain ranges,...
5. Chapter V.The Spartans, instead of having one king, had two kings and two royal families[56], so that their system of government may best be described as a dual heroic kingship. Of this g...
6. CHAPTER IV.The Spartans present so many peculiarities and are so unlike to any other people that I must divide what I have to say about them under separate heads. In regard to the Spartans...
7. CHAPTER V.I have already stated that between 650 B.C. and 338 B.C. the Greek communities with the exception of Sparta are to be classed as city states, or communities in which a walled ci...
8. chapter 7.The changes which have been mentioned, together with others which have been passed over, produced the constitution under which the Athenians lived during their contest with Spar...
9. CHAPTER VI.I have now described, in a roughly chronological order, the different kinds of government which successively appeared in the Greek states from their infancy to their overthrow b...
10. Part II. chapter XC.The strong conservative tendency, which prevailed among the Athenians under their democratic constitution, was, I believe, first noticed by Mr W. Warde Fowler. There is a striki...
11. CHAPTER VII.[249] The chief modern authorities for the history of the Achæan League are Bishop Thirlwall in the eighth volume of his _History of Greece_, and Professor Freeman in his _Histo...