The History Of The Manners And Customs Of Ancient Greece

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Excerpt from The History of the Manners and Customs of Ancient Greece, Vol. 3 of 3 From the history of Mines, which, whether true or fabulous, still, illustrates the manners of the times, we learn, that the tribute exacted by a victorious enemy sometimes consisted of slaves. Thus the Cre tan king, having made a successful descent on the Attic coast, was propitiated as by our own anoes tors were the Danes and other Northern savages) About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The History of the Manners and Customs of Ancient Greece, Vol. 1 of 3 Few subjects, however, abound more in interest or instruction than the one I have here ventured to treat. The inquiry turns upon the institutions and moral condition of a people to whose fortunes history affords no parallel; of a people that, like the cloud no bigger than a man's hand, which the servant of the prophet saw from the top of Carmel, contained within itself the seeds of migh tiest and most momentous events. The Hellenes can never, in fact, by any but the uninformed be regarded in the same light as ordlnary politi cal communities. Their power, vast and astonish ing for the age in which they flourished, arose entirely out of their national character and the Spirit of their institutions. It was the power of intellect. They were in reality the sun and soul of the ancient world, and darted far into the dark ness around them those vivifying rays which, re flected from land to land, have since lighted up the world. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.