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Excerpt from A History of Greece for Colleges and High Schools This work, although written on the lines which I drew in my Eastern Nations and Greece, is practically a new book. The sketch of Greek affairs in the earlier volume is compressed into about two hundred pages; the present narrative fills over five hundred. The book is intended for more mature readers than those for whom the work named was written, being designed for use in colleges as well as with advanced classes in high schools and seminaries. In writing it, I have kept steadily in view the original design, and have aimed to give prominence to the permanent elements only of Greek history. Particularly have I exercised care not to overload the book with those details which confuse without informing the mind, and which obstruct instead of helping forward the narrative. In the proper connections I have indicated the import for Greek history of the recent archeological discoveries on Greek soil, and have traced the development of the Athenian constitution in the new light afforded by the lately found Aristotelian treatise. In Part Sixth, in special chapters devoted to art, literature, philosophy, and social life among the ancient Greeks, place has been found for matter that could not well be introduced in earlier chapters without breaking, in what seemed an undesirable way, the continuity of the political narrative. 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 imperfecti