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Excerpt from History of Greek Literature In arranging the Historical division of this Encyclopædia for republication, we have to some extent departed from Mr. Coleridge's original intention "to present History in the form of Biography chronologically arranged." Instead of making the Historical and Biographical articles succeed each other strictly in the order of time, it has been considered expedient to arrange them in the order of their subjects - making the chronological principle subordinate to the philosophical. The advantage derived from this alteration is, that each of the small volumes of the Cabinet Edition of the Encyclopædia will present the reader with the complete history of a given subject, Instead of a collection of disconnected chapters relating to the various events, persons, and subjects, of a given era. In pursuance of this plan, we have arranged the History of Classical Literature for publication in the following order: - The present volume contains the History of Greek Literature. Another volume will contain the History of Roman Literature. These will be followed by volumes comprehending the History of Greek, Roman, and Oriental Philosophy, - the Arts and Sciences of the Ancients, - Mythology, - Archgæology, - and Classical Geography; - and these again by Biographical Histories of Greece, of Rome, and of the early Nations of the East. It is intended that each Series of classified articles shall be, not merely revised, but sufficiently extended to make it a complete representative of its department. The present volume, for example, contains not only the articles that appeared in the former edition of the Encyclopædia, now republished in an improved state, but several others that were found to be necessary to complete its subject. 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 importa