The History of Ancient Greece (Volume 1-2); Its Colonies and Conquests from the Earliest Accounts Till the Division of the Macedonian Empire in the East. Including the History of Literature, Philosophy, and the Fine Arts (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1820. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... CHAP. III. Distracted State of Greece. -- The Heracleida conduct the Dorians into Peloponnesus. -- Divide their Conquests in that Peninsula. -- The Eolic, Ionic, and Doric Migrations. -- Establishment of Colonies in Thrace, Macedon, Africa, and Magna Graecia.-- Influence of the Ionic Colonies in Asia on the Affairs of the Mother Country. -- The Abolition of Monarchy in Greece. -- New Disorders in that Country. -- Four Institutions which tended to remove them. -- The Amphyctyonic Council. -- The Oracle of Delphi. -- The Olympic Games. -- The Spartan Imiks. Greece triumphed over Troy, but it was a Chap. melancholy triumph. The calamities of war DEGREES I- . were followed by disasters at sea, by discord state of among the Chiefs, by ruin to the confederacy; after the yet these evils were less afflicting than the intestine animosities and sedition excited by the licence of the people, and fomented by the ambition of the nobles during the long and unfortunate absence of their kings. The victorious Agamemnon had scarcely set foot on his native land, when he was cut off by an adulterous spouse and a perfidious assassin.1 His son Orestes found protection in Athens against the resentment 'of an usurper. 'In the eighth year of his exile he returned with his partisans, and 1 Odyss. 1. i. ver. 29. Chap, took just vengeance on the abominable EgysIII- theus and Clytemnestra.2 He reigned in Argos, but with far less glory than his father; nor did that kingdom ever thenceforth assume its ancient pre-eminence. Weakness The wanderings and woes of Ulysses are too country well known to be described.3 His patient ford"rin titude regained the kingdom of Ithaca, but not succeeding without wading through the blood of his most FromAX;. illustrious subjects.4 If history m...