Travels in the Morea; With a Map and Plans Volume 3 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1830 edition. Excerpt: ...been larger than that of Minerva, though not perhaps so splendid. The Gamori were the nobles, who inherited the lands divided among the original colonists who accompanied Archias from Corinth. They obtained the government in the year 596 B.c., (the same year, according to the Parian Chronicle, in which Sappho fled from Mytilene to Syracuse;) and they were expelled by the lower orders not long before the time when Gelo made himself master of Syracuse under pretence of re-establishing the Gamori. The latter event took place in the year 494 B.c. d The temple, therefore, may be considered a work of the middle of the sixth century B.c. Egesta, or Segesta, one of the most ancient of the Greek settlements in Sicily, was unfortunate in having been less favourably situated for commerce than any of its neighbours, and in having been constantly in a state of hostility with one or other of them concerning its boundaries, that incessant subject of dispute among the Greek republics. It was particularly with Selinus that Egesta quarrelled on this subject, Polcmo ap. Athen. 1. 11. c. 8. c T. Livii Hist. 1. 25. c. 23. Pindar. Pyth. Od. 2.--Diodor. d Herodot. 1. 7. c. 155 Dionys. 1 5. c. 3. Hal. Antiq. Uom. I. 6. c. 6?. and Selinus having been much the richer state in consequence of its commercial advantages, the game was a losing one for the Egestaei, who were at length so much distressed in consequence, that they implored the assistance of the Athenians in the year 416 B.c., and gave rise to their Sicilian expedition. When the Athenian fleet arrived, however, the Eges-tsci were unable to produce more than thirty talents towards the expenses of their allies b. Not long afterwards they invited that fatal intervention of the Carthaginians which put an end to all...