By George Grote
Largely stated because the so much authoritative Victorian learn of old Greece, George Grote's twelve-volume paintings, began in 1846, validated the view of Greek historical past which nonetheless prevails in textbooks and well known money owed of the traditional global this day. Grote employs direct and transparent language to take the reader from the earliest instances of mythical Greece to the demise of Alexander and his new release, drawing upon epic poetry and legend, and studying the expansion and decline of the Athenian democracy. The paintings explains Greek political constitutions and philosophy, and interwoven all through are the $64000 yet outlying adventures of the Sicilian and Italian Greeks. quantity 2 keeps with the mythical age of the Greeks, paying detailed realization to the Iliad and Odyssey, and starts the tale of old Greece, surroundings the geographical and chronological coordinates and introducing the reader to the realm of the Peloponnesus.
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Byz. "Apvq, makes the Thessalian Arng an UTTOIKOS of the Boeotian. ; Strabo, ix. p. 413 ; Pausan. 40, 3. Some of the families at Cheeroneia, even during the time of the Roman dominion in Greece, traced their origin to Peripoltas the prophet, who was said to have accompanied Opheltas in his invading march out of Thessaly (Plutarch, Cimdn, c. 1). CHAP. ] CLOSING EVENTS OF LEGENDARY GREECE. 25 Akrsephium. Moreover there was near the Boeotian Koroneia a river named Kuarius or Koralius, and a venerable temple dedicated to the Itonian Athene, in the sacred ground of which the Pambceotia, or public council of the Boeotian name, was held; and there was a temple and a river of similar denomination in Thessaly, near to a town called lton or It6nus'.
The interval of eighty years, between the capture of Troy and the Return of the Herakleids, appears to have been admitted by Apollodorus and Eratosthenes, and some other professed chronologists of antiquity : but there were different reckonings which also found more or less of support. —MIGRATION OF THESSALIANS AND BOEOTIANS. In the same passage in which Thucydides speaks of the Return of the Herakleids, he also marks out the date of another event a little antecedent, which is alleged to have powerfully affected the condition of Northern Greece.
Degmenus, the champion of the Epeians, confided in the long shot of his bow and arrow; but the iEtolian Pyrsechm&s came provided with his sling,—a weapon then unknown and recently invented by the iEtolians,—the range of which was yet longer than that of the bow of his enemy : he thus killed Degmenus, and secured the victory to Oxylus and his followers. According to one statement the Epeians were expelled ; according to another they fraternised amicably with the new-comers : whatever may be the truth as to this matter, it is certain that their name is from this moment lost, and that they never reappear among the historical elements of Greece 2 : we hear from this time forward only of Eleians, said to be of iEtolian descent3.
A History of Greece, Volume 02 of 12, originally published in 1846 by George Grote