Author Description

The author has not confined his history to "Military annals." for there are chapters on Literature. Archeology and Civil Life, and the lives of the great men of Greece are given due attention. Herodotus is drawn on as one of the chief sources. The first volume closes with the Advance of Xerxes from Thermopylae to Athens. The historical record is carried in volume II to the beginning of the Peloponnesian war, and the closing chapters are devoted to a study of Pericles and to a survey of the Advance of learning since the age of Pericles. -Book Review Digest, Volume 11 [1916] Book Review Digest, Volume 11 [1916]