Charicles Or Illustrations Of The Private Life Of The Ancient Greeks With Notes And Excursuses
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Published: July 25, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 528
ISBN-13: 9780548041086
Subjects: European history: BCE to c 500 CE; Ancient Greece; Ancient - Greece; History / Ancient / Greece; History - General History
First sentence: NOT far from the ruins of Mycenae, those primaeval witnesses of the grandeur of the earliest Grecian princes, which stupendous even in their downfall, have endured for upwards of three thousand years, is seen a narrow defile, winding northwards between precipitous walls of rock, and leading to the hill whereon Cleonae, probably, whilome stood, and which, though insignificant in size, is famous from the eulogy of Homer.