HERMES OF PRAXITELES.
4th Century BC.
The Book of the Ancient Greeks
An Introduction to the History and Civilization of Greece
from the Coming of the Greeks to the Conquest
of Corinth by Rome in 146 B.C.
By
Dorothy Mills, M.A.
Teacher of History at the Brearley School, New York
Author of "The Book of the Ancient World"
With 16 Illustrations and a Map
G. P. Putnam's Sons
New York & London
The Knickerbocker Press
Copyright, 1925
by
Dorothy Mills
Published, August, 1925
Second impression, March, 1928
Third impression, October, 1928
Fourth impression, September, 1929
Fifth impression, October, 1930
Sixth impression, October, 1931
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not be reproduced in any form without permission.
The Knickerbocker Press
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To
M. C. S. M.
PREFACE
This book, like the first of the series the Book ofthe Ancient World, was used in its original manuscriptform by one of my history classes. It carrieson the story of the way in which man has beenlearning how to live from the time of the Coming of theGreeks to the loss of Greek independence in 146 B.C.
The spirit of a nation is expressed and its history isrecorded in three ways: in its political history, in itsliterature and in its art. The aim of this book hasbeen to use such parts of the political history of theGreeks, of their literature and of their art as seemto have been the outward and visible signs of thespirit that inspired them.
It would not have been possible to write this bookin this way without the kind permission of translatorsand publishers to use copyright translations.I gladly take this opportunity to acknowledge mydebt to Professor Gilbert Murray and the OxfordUniversity Press for the translation of the Iphigeniain Tauris; to Mr. A. W. Pickard—Cambridge andthe Oxford University Press for the translations fromDemosthenes; to Mr. A. E. Zimmern and the OxfordUniversity Press for passages from the GreekCommonwealth; and to the Trustees of the Jowett Fundand the Oxford University Press for translations{vi}from Plato and Thucydides; to Sir Arthur Evans forpassages from an article in the Monthly Review; toMr. G. S. Freeman for translations from the Schoolsof Hellas by the late Kenneth J. Freeman; toMr. A. S. Way for a passage from the Persians; toMr. A. W. Crawley for passages from the translation ofthe Odyssey by Butcher and Lang; to Mrs. Putnamfor an extract from The Lady; to Miss Leslie WhiteHopkinson for her arrangement of one of the Elegiacsof Solon; to Messrs. Macmillan and Co. fortranslations from the Iliad by Lang, Leaf and Myers,from Pausanias by Sir J. G. Frazer, from Plato'sRepublic by Davies and Vaughan, from the Trial andDeath of Socrates by F. G. Church, from Herodotusby G. C. Ma