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Excerpt from The Antiquities of Greece In offering to the public in an English form the late Professor Schomann's Griechische Alterthumer, the Translators believe that they are introducing what is much needed - a connecting link between a History of Greece like those of Grote and Curtius and a Dictionary of Antiquities like that edited by Dr. William Smith, combining the critical and continuous treatment of the former with the detailed information of the latter, and adding to both a multitude of references to classical authors which should make the book most useful to scholars. The Translators take this opportunity of expressing their great obligations to Mr. Ingram Bywater and Mr. H. F. Pelham, both Tutors of Exeter College, Oxford, for the advice and encouragement without which the work would not have been undertaken, or, if undertaken, not successfully carried out. To the latter gentleman their special thanks are due for his kindness, notwithstanding his own press of work, in reading and revising the whole of the proofs. Many blemishes in the execution of the work have by this means been removed: for those which may still remain the Translators themselves are solely responsible. The translation has been made from the latest German edition (the third), published at Berlin in 1871. 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.