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XXVIII; 372 Seiten; 22 cm; fadengeh., rückengoldgepr. Halblederband d.Zt. Gutes, stabiles Exemplar; Einband berieben u. beschabt; Vorsatz mit Exlibris u. hs. Besitzvermerk; kleine Stempel; Seiten geringfügig nachgedunkelt; leichte Gebrauchs- u. Lagerspuren. - Vorbesitz von Prof. Wolfgang Haase. - Englisch; griechisch. - INHALT : INTRODUCTION. -------- EDITIONS OF WORKS REFERRED TO. -------- NoTANDA. -------- PART I. Before the Persian War. B. c. 700-490 -------- PART II. From the Persian to the Peloponnesian Wars B.C. 490-431 -------- PART III. The Peloponnesian War. B.C. 431-404 -------- PART IV. From the archonship of Euklid to the battle of Cheeronea.B.C. 4O3-338 -------- PART V. From the battle of Cheeronea to the death of Alexander. B.C. 338-323. -------- PART VI. From the death of Alexander to the Gaulish invasion.B.C. 323-278. -------- PART VII. From Pyrrhos to Flamininus B.C. 280-197 -------- PART VIII. From Flamininus to Mummius B. c. 196-146. -------- PART IX. From Mummius to Sulla. B.C. 145-80. INDEX. // " THE history of the Hellenic people, from the days of their struggle with Persia, down to their submission to the Western Conquerors, is a story which can never tire, if only for its wealth of striking and pathetic incidents. But it is the intellectual greatness of the Greeks, and their important influence upon the world, which invests with a peculiar interest everything connected with them. In poetry, in philosophy, in art, they have shaped the thoughts of all succeeding time. And the history of the Greeks, thus unique in its interest, lies open to us in a literature equally original. So rich is their historical literature, that the very brilliance of Herodotos, Thukydides, and Xenophon almost blinds us to the sterling common sense of a Polybios, or the painstaking labours of a Diodoros. Nor do we always remember how much valuable history we owe to the accurate notes of travellers like Strabo and Pausanias. Even the very gossip of Greek political circles survives for us in the jests of Aristophanes, or the anecdotes of Plutarch and Athenseos. The literary documents bearing upon Greek history form a very wide field, upon which the labours of many generations of scholars have been spent, with the result of recalling for the modern reader the very colour and movement of ancient Greek life in the pages of Thirlwall, Grote, Curtius, and other great writers. But while the literary data have thus been subjected to the most careful sifting, and have been assuming a more complete and final form, another and supplementary class of documents has been acquiring new prominence. The liberation of Greece, and the increasing facilities for travel in the Levant, began early in this century to bring to light a larger number of archaeological monuments connected with classical Greece than had ever been known before; and it suited the scientific temper of the time to turn to these with an instinctive energy for their careful investigation. To a certain degree any and every object recovered from the ruins of antiquity will help in the illustration of ancient life. But the study of archaeology rises almost to an equality with the study of ancient literature, when we find in a work of art the interpretation of the spirit of a period, or when the excavation of an ancient site unlocks the secret of its history. It is true that the very richness of Greek literary records has deprived the evidence of Greek archaeology of some of its importance. Nevertheless the evidence of Greek coinage has never failed to engage the attention of historians; and any scholar may see at a glance how intimately Greek politics are illustrated by Greek coinage, by turning over the numismatic manuals lately issued by the British Museum. . " (Einleitung) Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550.
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