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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887 Excerpt:...eifih AvwOev, ws Kal b ReWefxxpwv ' Tleoirovvauiarl XaXei//i£s' AwplaSev 5' ZeaTit Sokc, Tois Aaipteaat.-Above, p. 282. poets and philosophers, and noble records, to make him proud of his origin. I do not know that I can cite any Asiatic cities of old renown on a par with these examples. Smyrna, Ephesus, Colophon, Miletus, were all reduced in influence, and we find them amalgamated with other cities and refounded with Hellenistic names, and with an importation of foreign settlers, like the Jews whom Antiochus the Great settled with civic rights in the cities of Asia Minor,--all showing that their greatness was gone or had faded before their new rivals. Perhaps the most eminent town (next to Rhodes) of Eastern Hellenedom was Byzantium, which, in spite of Celts and Thracians, who harried it almost beyond endurance, still held the key of the Bosphorus, and with it a great position. But even Byzantium had to suffer from the rivalry of new foundations, such as Lysimacheia, Alexandria Troas, Pergamum, Nicomedia, and newer seaports like Heracleia on the Euxine. Nor can I cite any credible evidence on the interior or social condition of Byzantium. Its politics will occupy us presently in connection with Rhodes. Passing from these ancient and noble cities we come to another class, also of ancient foundation, which were so rebuilt or modified as to date their after history justly from this epoch. For it was a common thing either to gather the people of several surrounding towns, or even to modify 1 Athenaeus (xi. 490, 491) cites Mcero, a learned Byzantine lady who wrote a hexameter poem called Mnemosyne, with ingenious commentaries on difficulties in Homer. But whether she lived and taught at Byzantium we cannot tell. There are notes on the luxury and effeminacy...