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Excerpt from The Third Book of History: Containing Ancient History in Connection With Ancient Geography The posts have disguised this story, represent ing the Athenian ca tives as havin been devoured by a monster, the, inotaur, who welt in a laby rmth, the clue to which Ariadne gave to Theseus, who slew the monster, and returned in safety. He ascended the throne of Athens, and, in the year 1257, united the twelve cities of Attica, and gave them a common constitution. Argos, the capital of Argolis, was situated about two miles from the sea, in that portion of Greece called the peioponnésus. The Pelopon neaus was a celebrated peninsula comprehending the southern parts of Greece. It derived its name from Pelops as the word indicates, meanin the island of fie t has been called rgia, Pelas and galls, and has been thought to te semb e 111118 form the leaf of the plane tree. Its present name, the Morea, is derived from the Greek word, signifyinfija mulberry tree, which is found there in at a undance. It was nearly one hundred in se in le h, one hundred and forty in breadth, and about ve hundred and sixty ei t ia, circuinference. Separated from Greece 0 y by the narrow isthmus of Corinth, which is only five miles broad, it ap ared practicable to cut through the isthmus an 0 n a communies tion between the by of Corin and the Saronic gulf. But C&sar, em and Demetrius attempted it in vain. 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