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Excerpt from The History of Civilization, Vol. 2 of 7 Greece extends farther south than any other part of the European continent. Considering the ancient Iberia, the present Spanish peninsula, as the farthest land west that was known' to the ancients, and Serica, as that the farthest east, we should find Greece almost directly in the centre of the most cultivated countries of the three continents, Europe, Asia and Africa. It was surrounded by sea, ex cept on the north where it was walled in by mountains. 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.