The world: historical and actual . The Actual in Fabulous Wars—Spartans and Messenians—The Four Great Wars orGreece—Asia Minor and Cr<esus—The Persians and the Ionians—The Invasion opGreece by the Persians—The Glories op Marathon— and its Heroic De-fense—Salamis and the Flight op Xerxes—Themistocles and the Ingratitude op Repub-lics—The Peloponnesian War—The Genius op Pericles—Philip op Macedon—Alexanderthe Great—Roman Conquest op Greece—Siege op Athens—Modern Greek Heroism. ^*es£. f—§^*# 11 US far our history liasnot dealt very much hi hu-man butchery, nor do weintend that it sh
The world: historical and actual . The Actual in Fabulous Wars—Spartans and Messenians—The Four Great Wars orGreece—Asia Minor and Cr<esus—The Persians and the Ionians—The Invasion opGreece by the Persians—The Glories op Marathon— and its Heroic De-fense—Salamis and the Flight op Xerxes—Themistocles and the Ingratitude op Repub-lics—The Peloponnesian War—The Genius op Pericles—Philip op Macedon—Alexanderthe Great—Roman Conquest op Greece—Siege op Athens—Modern Greek Heroism. ^*es£. f—§^*# 11 US far our history liasnot dealt very much hi hu-man butchery, nor do weintend that it shall, exceptas the same may be neces-sary to the unfolding ofthe progress of the worldsavagery to genuine civiliza-In the case of Greece, herhistorians seemed to think theblood-stained footprints of warwould interest posterity vastlymore than the domestic life, thepoetry, the art, the philosophy, andrlie social institutions of the peo-ple. To find the most elaboratedetails of the almost interminablecivil wars of Greece, one has onlyto turn to Herodotus, Thucydides or kindred his-torians of later date. They tell all about them, butthe far more important and interesting class of in-formation alluded to must be searched for in theby-ways of knowledge. The average history ofGreece is mainly devoted to the exploits of field of real interest is a narrow one, Trojan war belongs to history, it is true, in itsgeneral outlines, but all the surviving details apper- tain to
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