Charicles or Illustrations of the Private Life of the Ancient Greeks With Notes and Excursuses
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: May 30, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 532
ISBN-13: 9781417957224
Subjects: European history: BCE to c 500 CE; History; History - General History; History: World; Ancient Greece; Ancient - Greece
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.