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Excerpt from An Outline History of Greece If a curtain of delicately woven lace, with pictures painted upon it, were to hang between us and a great number of other pictures and statues, with living figures moving about, it would be im possible for us to tell what was natural and what artificial. Earliest Greek history is seen through the curtain of tradition and poetry that drops down about the year B. C. 500. We are compara tively sure of the great body of facts this side of that date. Beyond it we can discern some facts. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.