It is a very strange phenomenon that early Greek history appears to us in isolated moments or stages, each separated from the rest by an almost impenetrable darkness. The palaces which Schliemann discovered point to about the sixteenth century; the Iliad and Odyssey to the ninth; the earliest lyric poetry and the aristocratic society that produced it to the early seventh. It used to be a very constant problem to fill up the gaps, and learned men were ready to assume... that after the completion of the epos poetic genius dried up for some centuries till the days of Archilochus. We are now in a position to modify considerably these cruder theories, and to put before the reader the theory of a more natural and therefore more rational development...
Contents:
The Homeric Age
The First Two Centuries of Historical Development in Greece, 700-500 B. C.
The Passage from Sporadic to Systematic Culture. The Great Struggle with the East.
The Life of the Nation from the Defeat of the Persians (479 B. C.) till the Fall of Imperial Athens (404 B. C.).
The Fourth Century B. C.
The Fourth Century B. C. (continued).
The Time of Alexander the Great and his Early Successors.
The Hellenistic World, 250-150 B. C.
Greek Culture under the Romans.
Contents:
The Homeric Age
The First Two Centuries of Historical Development in Greece, 700-500 B. C.
The Passage from Sporadic to Systematic Culture. The Great Struggle with the East.
The Life of the Nation from the Defeat of the Persians (479 B. C.) till the Fall of Imperial Athens (404 B. C.).
The Fourth Century B. C.
The Fourth Century B. C. (continued).
The Time of Alexander the Great and his Early Successors.
The Hellenistic World, 250-150 B. C.
Greek Culture under the Romans.
