A History of Greece, from the Earliest Times to the Destruction of Corinth, B.C. 146 |
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Page 179 - According to our view of this celebrated society, it is not surprising that it should have presented such a variety of aspects, as to mislead those who fixed their attention on any one of them, and withdrew it from the rest. It was at once a philosophical school, a religious brotherhood, and a political association ; and all these characters appear to have been inseparably united in the founder's mind.
Page 222 - ... fail them, to commit their safety and their hopes of victory to their newly strengthened navy. This counsel had prevailed ; and the time was now come when the resolution founded upon it was to be carried into effect. After desolating Phocis, the Persian army passed peacefully through Boeotia towards Athens, for all the Boeotian cities, except Thespiae and Plataeae, which were reduced to ashes, had submitted and received Persian garrisons. At Athens, Themistocles moved a decree that the city should...
Page 189 - Aegean to the Indus, and from the steppes of Scythia to the cataracts of the Nile. He divided this vast tract into twenty satrapies or provinces, and appointed the tribute which each was to pay to the royal treasury. The western coast was connected with the seat of government by a high road, on which the distances were regularly marked, and spacious buildings were placed at convenient intervals to receive all who travelled in the king's name. The satraps in their provinces were so many almost independent...
Page 264 - Truce may be properly com. prised in a general survey of his administration. Pericles, to describe his policy in a few words, had two objects mainly in view throughout his public life : to extend and strengthen the Athenian empire, and to raise the confidence and self-esteem of the Athenians themselves to a level with the lofty position which they occupied. Almost all his measures may clearly be referred to one or the other of these ends.
Page 57 - However near the poet, if he is to be considered as a single one, may be supposed to have lived to the times of which he sings, it is clear that he did not suffer himself to be fettered by his knowledge of the facts. For aught we know, he may have been a contemporary of those who had fought under Achilles ; but it is not the less true that he describes his principal hero as the son of a sea-goddess. He and his hearers most probably looked upon epic song as a vehicle of history, and therefore it required...
Page 147 - He charged the forty-eight sections, called naucrariae (vavRpapiai), into which the tribes had been divided for financial purposes, each with the equipment of a galley, as well as with the mounting of two horsemen. He also gave active encouragement to trade and manufactures, and with this view invited foreigners to settle in Attica, by the assurance of protection and large privileges.
Page 56 - And this is indirectly confirmed by the testimony of Homer, who introduces Poseidon predicting that the posterity of .<Eneas should long continue to reign over the Trojans, after the race of Priam should be extinct. To the conquerors the war...
Page 195 - ... happened that this man was a friend and guest of Aristagoras, who not only set the authority of Megabates at defiance by releasing the prisoner, but insisted that the Persian admiral held a subordinate command to himself. The pride of Megabates could not brook such an insult. As soon as it was night, he sent a message to the Naxians to warn them of their danger. Hitherto the Naxians had had no suspicion of the object of the expedition; but they lost no time in carrying their property into the...
Page 21 - Creta, ii. p. 7. conclusion that the name Pelasgians was a general one, like that of Saxons, Franks, or Alemanni : but that each of the Pelasgian tribes had also one peculiar to itself*.
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