HISTORY OF GREECE, VOL. 1

I. Legendary Greece, II. Grecian History to the Reign of Peisistratus at AthensThe first idea of this History was conceived many years ago, at a time when ancient Hellas was known to the English public chicfly through the pages of Mitford, and my purpose in writing it was to rectify the erroneous statements as to mat ter of fact which that history contained, as well as to present the general phaenomena of the Grecian world under what I thought a juster and more com prehensive point of view. My leisure however was not at that time equal to the execution of any large literary undertaking nor is it until within the last three or four years that I have been able to devote to the work that continuous and exclusive labour, without which, though much may be done to illus trate detached points, no entire or complicated subject can ever be set forth in a manner worthy to meet the public eye.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.