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Excerpt from Athenian Letters, Vol. 1 of 2: Or the Epistolary Correspondence of an Agent of the King of Persia, Residing at Athens During the Peloponnesian War At the same time we may entertain a more adequate notion of the customs of the Greeks and-persians from these Letters of our Agent, in which the living manners are expressed, than we can possibly gather from the most formal and elaborate treatises of grave antiqua ries.' Not to mention several curious particulars of Court subtilty and intrigue interwoven in the course of them, which may seem perhaps beneath the notice of an historian, but which yet have a wonderful effect in unravelling the secret springs and true causes of action. 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.