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Excerpt from The Historical Antiquities of the Greeks, With Reference to Their Political Institutions, Vol. 1 Since the regeneration of the study of Grecian antiquities, various portions of the ample field of enquiry which that science embraces, have been cultivated with a zeal and assiduity that have borne the choicest fruits. But much still re mains to be accomplished; and a painful and discouraging contrast to the fresh beauty of those more favoured portions of the antiquarian do main, is presented in the dreary aspect of those which have not yet been visited by the fostering and renovating care of culture. Under such circum stances, what can be more natural in itself, or more calculated to promote science by its results. 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.