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Excerpt from Greek History: Its Problems and Its Meaning With Appendices on the Authorities and on the Constitution of Athens What is still worse, it is apt to confine itself, at any rate for the greater part of the period dealt with, to the historv of Greece in the narrower sense, to of the Greek peninsula. For the identification of Greece with Greece proper there may be some degree of excuse when we come to the sth and 4th centuries. In the period that lies behind the year 500 b.c. Greece proper forms but a. Small part of the Greek world. In the 7th and 6th centuries it is outside Greece itself that we must look for the most active life of the Greek people and the most brilliant manifestations of the Greek spirit. We shall, therefore, be concerned with the causes and conditions of events, rather than with the events themselves; we shall attempt analysis rather than narrative. Our object will be to indicate problems and to criticize views; to suggest lessons and parallels, and to estimate the importance of the Hellenic factor in the development of civilization. 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.