# Greece from the Coming of the Hellenes to AD. 14

The Story of the Nations (2nd ed.), Volume 64.
The Story of the Nations
GREECE
FROM THE COMING OF THE HELLENES TO A.D. 14
| 1. Rome. By Arthur Gilman, M.A.  2. The Jews. By Prof. J. K. Hosmer.  3. Germany. By Rev. S. Baring-Gould, M.A.  4. Carthage. By Prof. Alfred J. Church.  5. Alexander's Empire. By Prof. J. P. Mahaffy.  6. The Moors in Spain. By Stanley Lane-Poole.  7. Ancient Egypt. By Prof. George Rawlinson.  8. Hungary. By Prof. Arminius Vambery.  9. The Saracens. By Arthur Gilman, M.A. 10. Ireland. By the Hon. Emily Lawless. 11. Chaldea. By Zénaïde A. Ragozin. 12. The Goths. By Henry Bradley. 13. Assyria. By Zénaïde A. Ragozin. 14. Turkey. By Stanley Lane-Poole. 15. Holland. By Prof. J. E. Thorold Rogers. 16. Mediaeval France. By Gustave Masson. 17. Persia. By S. G. W. Benjamin. 18. Phoenicia. By Prof. G. Rawlinson. 19. Media. By Zénaïde A. Ragozin. 20. The Hansa Towns. By Helen Zimmern. 21. Early Britain. By Prof. Alfred J. Church. 22. The Barbary Corsairs. By Stanley Lane-Poole. 23. Russia. By W. R. Morfill, M.A. 24. The Jews under the Romans. By W. D. Morrison. 25. Scotland. By John Mackintosh, LL.D. 26. Switzerland. By Mrs. Lina Hug and R. Stead. 27. Mexico. Bv Susan Hale. 28. Portugal. By H. Morse Stephens. 29. The Normans. By Sarah Orme Jewett. 30. The Byzantine Empire. By C. W. C. Oman. 31. Sicily: Phoenician, Greek and Roman. By the late Prof. E. A. Freeman. 32. The Tuscan Republics. By Bella Duffy. 33. Poland. By W. R. Morfill, M.A. 34. Parthia. By Prof. George Rawlinson. | 35. The Australian Commonwealth. By Greville Tregarthen. 36. Spain. By H. E. Watts. 37. Japan. By David Murray, Ph.D. 38. South Africa. By George M. Theal. 39. Venice. By Alethea Wiel. 40. The Crusades. By T. A. Archer and C. L. Kingsford. 41. Vedic India. By Z. A. Ragozin. 42. The West Indies and the Spanish Main. By James Rodway. 43. Bohemia. By C. Edmund Maurice. 44. The Balkans. By W. Miller, M.A. 45. Canada. By Sir J. G. Bourinot, LL.D. 46. British India. By R. W. Frazer, LL.B. 47. Modern France. By André Le Bon. 48. The Franks. By Lewis Sergeant.. 49. Austria. By Sidney Whitman. 50. Modern England. Before the Reform Bill. By Justin McCarthy. 51. China. By Prof. R. K. Douglas. 52. Modern England. From the Reform Bill to the Present Time. By Justin McCarthy. 53. Modern Spain. By Martin A. S. Hume. 54. Modern Italy. By Pietro Orsi. 55. Norway. By H. H. Boyesen. 56. Wales. By O. M. Edwards. 57. Mediaeval Rome. By W. Miller, M.A. 58. The Papal Monarchy. By William Barry, D.D. 59. Mediaeval India under Mohammedan Rule. By Stanley Lane-Poole. 60. Buddhist India. By Prof. T. W. Rhys-Davids. 61. Parliamentary England. By Edward Jenks, M.A. 62. Mediaeval England. By Mary Bateson. 63. The Coming of Parliament. By L. Cecil Jane. 64. The Story of Greece. From the earliest times to A.D. 14. By E. S. Shuckburgh. 65. The Story of the Roman Empire. (B.C. 29 to A.D. 476.) By H. Stuart Jones. |
The Acropolis and the Theseion.
GREECE
FROM THE COMING OF THE HELLENES TO A.D. 14
BY
E. S. SHUCKBURGH, Litt.D.
LATE FELLOW OF EMMANUEL COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE, LECTURER IN ANCIENT HISTORY IN UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, LONDON
London
T. FISHER UNWIN
ADELPHI TERRACE
NEW YORK: G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS
MCMXI
| First Edition | 1905 |
| Second Impression | 1911 |
Copyright by T. Fisher Unwin, 1905
(For Great Britain).
Copyright by G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1905
(For the United States of America).
PREFACE
The "Stories of the Nations" could not be complete without that of Greece. This is one excuse for adding to the number of short Greek Histories. Another is that it was a necessary preface to a second volume designed to sketch the fortunes of Greece after its period of greatness, the interest of which could hardly be intelligible without some account of the life and genius of its people when at their best. I have tried throughout to lay stress upon the political, intellectual, and artistic achievements of the Greeks, rather than on the history of military operations. The latter of course could not be ignored or neglected, but they have not been made the chief feature in the book. My plan was to notice the literary movement in each period as it arose; it was thought better however that a chapter containing a more continuous account of extant Greek literature should be added. It therefore necessarily contains some repetition of what had been said in previous chapters. The amount however of such ​repetition is not very serious, and may perhaps be compensated by the convenience to students of having the information together. For the specimens of the various poets which are there given the writer is, except in one instance, himself responsible.
June, 1905.
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