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Title: The Historians' History of the World in Twenty-Five Volumes, Volume 3
Greece to the Peloponnesian War
Author: Various
Editor: Henry Smith Williams
Release Date: July 24, 2017 [EBook #55195]
Language: English
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THE HISTORIANS’ HISTORY OF THE WORLD
HERODOTUS
THE HISTORIANS’
HISTORY
OF THE WORLD
A comprehensive narrative of the rise and development of nations
as recorded by over two thousand of the great writers of
all ages: edited, with the assistance of a distinguished
board of advisers and contributors,
by
HENRY SMITH WILLIAMS, LL.D.
IN TWENTY-FIVE VOLUMES
VOLUME III—GREECE TO THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR
The Outlook Company
New York
The History Association
London
1904
Copyright, 1904,
By HENRY SMITH WILLIAMS.
Press of J. J. Little & Co.
New York, U. S. A.
Contributors, and Editorial Revisers.
Prof. Adolf Erman, University of Berlin.
Prof. Joseph Halévy, College of France.
Prof. Thomas K. Cheyne, Oxford University.
Prof. Andrew C. McLaughlin, University of Michigan.
Prof. David H. Müller, University of Vienna.
Prof. Alfred Rambaud, University of Paris.
Capt. F. Brinkley, Tokio.
Prof. Eduard Meyer, University of Berlin.
Dr. James T. Shotwell, Columbia University.
Prof. Theodor Nöldeke, University of Strasburg.
Prof. Albert B. Hart, Harvard University.
Dr. Paul Brönnle, Royal Asiatic Society.
Dr. James Gairdner, C.B., London.
Prof. Ulrich von Wilamowitz Möllendorff, University of Berlin.
Prof. H. Marczali, University of Budapest.
Dr. G. W. Botsford, Columbia University.
Prof. Julius Wellhausen, University of Göttingen.
Prof. Franz R. von Krones, University of Graz.
Prof. Wilhelm Soltau, Zabern University.
Prof. R. W. Rogers, Drew Theological Seminary.
Prof. A. Vambéry, University of Budapest.
Prof. Otto Hirschfeld, University of Berlin.
Dr. Frederick Robertson Jones, Bryn Mawr College.
Baron Bernardo di San Severino Quaranta, London.
Dr. John P. Peters, New York.
Dr. S. Rappoport, School of Oriental Languages, Paris.
Prof. Hermann Diels, University of Berlin.
Prof. C. W. C. Oman, Oxford University.
Prof. I. Goldziher, University of Vienna.
Prof. W. L. Fleming, University of West Virginia.
Prof. R. Koser, University of Berlin.
CONTENTS
VOLUME III
GREECE
PAGE
Introductory Essay. The Scope and Development of Greek History.
By Dr. Eduard Meyer
1
Greek History in Outline
13
CHAPTER I
Land and People
26
The land,
26
. The name,
32
. The origin of the Greeks,
33
. Early conditions and movements,
36
.
CHAPTER II
The Mycenæan Age
(
1600-1000
B.C.
)
40
Mycenæan civilisation,
40
. The problem of Mycenæan chronology,
52
. The testimony of art,
54
. The problem of the Mycenæan race,
56
.
CHAPTER III
The Heroic Age
(1400-1200
B.C.
)
66
The value of the myths,
67
. The exploits of Perseus,
68
. The labours of Hercules,
69
. The feats of Theseus,
71
. The Seven against Thebes,
72
. The Argonauts,
73
. The Trojan War,
76
. The town of Troy,
78
. Paris and Helen,
79
. The siege of Troy,
80
. Agamemnon’s sad home-coming,
81
. Character and spirit of the Heroic Age,
82
. Geographical knowledge,
86
. Navigation and astronomy,
88
. Commerce and the arts,
89
. The graphic arts,
91
. The art of war,
92
. Treatment of orphans, criminals, and slaves,
94
. Manners and customs,
97
.
CHAPTER IV
The Transition to Secure History
(
1200-800
B.C.
)
99
Beloch’s view of the conventional primitive history,
99
.
CHAPTER V
The Dorians
(
1100-1000
B.C.
)
109
The migration in the view of Curtius,
115
. Messenia,
117
. Argos,
118
. Arcadia,
121
. Dorians in Crete,
124
.
CHAPTER VI
Sparta and Lycurgus
(
885
B.C.
)
128
Plutarch’s account of Lycurgus,
129
. The institutions of Lycurgus,
131
. Regulations regarding marriage and the conduct of women,
133
. The rearing of children,
135
. The famed Laconic discourse; Spartan discipline,
136
. The senate; burial customs; home-staying; the ambuscade,
138
. Lycurgus’ subterfuge to perpetuate his laws,
140
. Effects of Lycurgus’ system,
141
.
CHAPTER VII
The Messenian Wars of Sparta
(
764-580
B.C.
)
143
First Messenian War,
144
. The futile sacrifice of the daughter of Aristodemus,
146
