TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE
* Italics are denoted by underscores as in _italics_.
* Small caps are represented in upper case as in SMALL CAPS.
* Letter spaced Greek text is enclosed in tildes as in ~καὶ τὰ
λοιπά~.
* Footnotes have been renumbered. Each footnote is placed at the
end of the paragraph that includes its anchor.
* Obvious printer errors have been silently corrected, after
comparison with a later edition of this work. Greek text has
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with Perseus, when the reference was found.
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but variant spellings were made consistent when a predominant
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* Nevetherless, no attempt has been made at normalizing proper
names (i.e. Abdera and Abdêra, Alkibiades and Alkibiadês,
Apollokrates and Apollokratês, Athenis and Athênis, Demeter and
Dêmêtêr, Diokles and Dioklês, Euktemon and Euktêmon, Europe
and Eurôpê, Here and Hêrê, Iatrokles and Iatroklês, Isokrates
and Isokratês, Leptines and Leptinês, Mausolus and Mausôlus,
Oropus and Orôpus, Pallenê and Pallênê, Pammenes and Pammenês,
Philomelus and Philomêlus, Phenicians and Phœnicians, etc.). The
author established at the beginning of the first volume of this
work some rules of transcription for proper names, but neither he
nor his publisher follows them consistently.
HISTORY OF GREECE.
BY
GEORGE GROTE, ESQ.
VOL. XI.
REPRINTED FROM THE LONDON EDITION.
NEW YORK:
HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS
329 AND 331 PEARL STREET.
1880.
PREFACE TO VOL. XI.
This History has already occupied a far larger space than I at first
intended or anticipated.
Nevertheless, to bring it to the term marked out in my original
preface—the close of the generation contemporary with Alexander,
on whose reign we are about to enter—one more Volume will yet be
required.
That Volume will include a review of Plato and Aristotle, so far as
the limits of a general history permit. Plato, indeed, belonging to
the period already described, is partially noticed in the present
Volume; at an epoch of his life when, as counsellor of Dionysius
II., he exercised positive action on the destinies of Syracuse. But
I thought it more convenient to reserve the appreciation of his
philosophical character and influence, until I could present him in
juxtaposition with his pupil Aristotle, whose maturity falls within
the generation now opening. These two distinguished thinkers will be
found to throw light reciprocally upon each other, in their points
both of contrast and similarity.
G. G.
LONDON, APRIL 15, 1853.
CONTENTS.
VOL. XI.
PART II.
CONTINUATION OF HISTORICAL GREECE.