. A smaller history of Greece, from the earliest times to the Roman conquest. letus and Ephesus were the most literature took its rise in the iEolic and Ionic cities ofAsia Minor. Homer was probably a native of Smyrna. Lyricpoetry flourished in the island of Lesbos, where Sappho andAlcseus were born. The Ionic cities were also the seats of theearliest schools of Grecian philosophy. Thales, who founded theIonic school of philosophy, was a native of Miletus. Halicarnassuswas one of the most important of the Doric cities, of which Hero-dotus was a native, though he wrote in the
. A smaller history of Greece, from the earliest times to the Roman conquest. letus and Ephesus were the most literature took its rise in the iEolic and Ionic cities ofAsia Minor. Homer was probably a native of Smyrna. Lyricpoetry flourished in the island of Lesbos, where Sappho andAlcseus were born. The Ionic cities were also the seats of theearliest schools of Grecian philosophy. Thales, who founded theIonic school of philosophy, was a native of Miletus. Halicarnassuswas one of the most important of the Doric cities, of which Hero-dotus was a native, though he wrote in the Ionic dialect. 2. The earliest Grecian settlement in Italy was Cuma3 in Cam-pania, situated near Cape Misenum, on the Tyrrhenian sea. Itis said to have been a joint colony from the iEolic Cyme in Asiaand from Chalcis in Euboea, and to have been founded, accordingto the common chronology, in 1050. Cuma3 was for a longtime the most flourishing city in Campania ; and it was not till itsdecline in the fifth century before the Christian era that Capuarose into Map of the chief Greek Colonies in Sicily. 4-: HISTORY OF GREECE. Chap. VI. The earliest Grecian settlement in Sicily was founded in The extraordinary fertility of the land soon attracted nu-merous colonists from various parts of Greece, and there arose onthe coasts of Sicily a succession of flourishing cities. Of these,Syracuse and Agrigentuni, Loth Dorian colonies, became the mostpowerful. The former was founded by the Corinthians in 734,and at the time of its greatest prosperity contained a populationof 500,000 souls, and was surrounded by walls twenty-two milesin circuit. Its greatness, however, belongs to a later period ofGrecian history. The Grecian colonies in southern Italy began to be planted atnearly the same time as in Sicily. They eventually lined the wholesouthern coast, as far as Cumse on the one sea and Tarentnm on theother. They even surpassed those in Sicily in number and impor
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