. A smaller history of Greece, from the earliest times to the Roman conquest. n the isthmus, Diaeus was overthrown in a battlenear Corinth; and that city was immediately evacuated not only bythe troops of the league, but also by the greater part of theinhabitants. On entering it Mummius put the few males whoremained to the sword; sold the women and children as slaves;and having carried away all its treasures, consigned it to the flames( 146). Corinth was filled with masterpieces of ancient art;but Mummius was so insensible to their surpassing excellence asto stipulate with those who contra
. A smaller history of Greece, from the earliest times to the Roman conquest. n the isthmus, Diaeus was overthrown in a battlenear Corinth; and that city was immediately evacuated not only bythe troops of the league, but also by the greater part of theinhabitants. On entering it Mummius put the few males whoremained to the sword; sold the women and children as slaves;and having carried away all its treasures, consigned it to the flames( 146). Corinth was filled with masterpieces of ancient art;but Mummius was so insensible to their surpassing excellence asto stipulate with those who contracted to convey them to Italy,that, if any were lost in the passage, they should be replaced byothers of equal value! Mummius then employed himself inchastising and regulating the whole of Greece; and ten commis-sioners were sent from Eome to settle its future condition. Thewhole country, to the borders of Macedonia and Epirus, was formedinto a Eoman province, under the name of Achaia, derived fromthat confederacy which had made the last struggle for its CHAPTER XXII. SKETCH OF THE HISTOEY OF GREEK LITEBATUBE FROM THEEARLIEST TIMES TO THE REIGN OF ALEXANDER THE GEE AT. The Greeks possessed two large eollections of epic poetry. Theone comprised poems relating to the great events and enterprisesof the Heroic age, and characterised by a certain poetical unity;the other included works tamer in character and more desultoryin then mode of treatment, containing the genealogies of men andgods, narratives of the exploits of separate heroes, and descriptionsof the ordinary pursuits of life. The poems of the former classpassed under the name of Homer; while those of the latterwere in the same general >vay ascribed to Hesiod. The formerwere the productions of the Ionic and JEolic minstrels in AsiaMinor, among whom Homer stood pre-eminent and eclipsed thebrightness of the rest: the latter were the compositions of a schoolof bards in the neighbourhood of Mount Helicon
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