A History of Greece, Volume 2Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans, 1846 - Greece |
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Page 157 - the remains of a worship which preceded the rise of the Hellenic mythology and its attendant rites, grounded on a view of nature, less fanciful, more earnest, and better fitted to awaken both philosophical thought and religious feeling.
Page 321 - Greeks," who, as Thirlwall describes them, "armed only with a few swords, stood a butt for the arrows, the javelins, and the stones of the enemy, which at length overwhelmed them. Where they fell they were afterwards buried; their tomb, as Simonides sings, was an altar, a sanctuary in which Greece revered the memory of her second founders.
Page 411 - ... inspiring the confidence on which it was founded. After ascertaining that the proposal of the lonians was the result, not of hasty passion but of a settled purpose, he undertook the task which was entrusted to him by general consent, of regulating the laws of the union, and of its subCHAP.
Page 197 - Thirlwall, with more judgment, suggests that " the actions ascribed to him are not more extravagant than those recorded of other despots whose minds were only disturbed by the possession of arbitrary power.
Page 110 - But it was seldom that the parent state looked forward to any more remote advantage from the colony, or, that the colony expected or desired any from the parent state. There was in most cases nothing to suggest the feeling of dependence on the one side, or a claim of authority on the other. The sons, when they left their home to shift for themselves on a foreign shore, carried with them only the blessing of their fathers, and felt themselves completely emancipated from their control. Often the colony...
Page 456 - ... Messenians ; and the treatment which the Athenians received at the hands of the Spartans afforded the party of Pericles a great advantage in the conflict with its adversaries at home, and furnished it with new arms against Cimon, who at once became obnoxious as the avowed friend of Sparta, and as the author of the expedition which had drawn so rude an insult on his countrymen. The attack on the Areopagus, therefore, was now prosecuted with greater vigour, and Cimon could exercise little influence...
Page 279 - WAR. — Xerxes's aim was not merely to collect a force sufficient to overcome all opposition, but to set his whole power in magnificent array, that he might enjoy the sight of it himself, and display it to the admiration of the world.
Page 21 - The immediate occasion which led to Draco's legislation is not recorded, and even the motives which induced him to impress it with that character of severity to which it owes its chief celebrity, are not clearly ascertained. We know, however, that he was the author of the first written laws of Athens : and as this measure tended to limit the authority of the nobles, to which a customary law, of which they were the sole expounders, opposed a much feebler check, we may reasonably conclude that the...
Page 40 - He likewise released the pledged lands from their incumbrances, and restored them in full property to their owners ; though it does not seem certain whether this was one of the express objects of the measure, or only one of the consequences which it involved. Finally, he abolished the inhuman law which enabled the creditor to enslave his debtor, and restored those who were pining at home in such bondage to immediate liberty, and it would seem that he compelled those who had sold their debtors into...
Page 452 - ... in effect, he granted her request ; for he kept back the thunder of his eloquence, and only rose once, for form's sake, to second the accusation. Plutarch says that Cimon was acquitted ; and there seems to be no reason for doubting the fact, except a suspicion that this was the trial to which Demosthenes alludes when he says that Cimon narrowly escaped with his life, and was condemned to a penalty of fifty talents : a singular repetition of his father's...