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Excerpt from A Manual of Grecian Antiquities: With Numerous Illustrations I. Ona knowledge of Grecian Antiquities is derived principally from the writers of that nation. Homer, for instance, furnishes us with most of the information which we possess concerning the He roie ages; but after his days and those of Hesiod, the absence of contemporary notices for many centuries renders as almost entire l'y dependent on later writers for an account of the times which pre ceded them, as well as their own. 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.