. A smaller history of Greece, from the earliest times to the Roman conquest. HPo^otoC 228 HISTORY OF GREECE. Chap. searches. But the real subject of the work is the conflict betweenthe Greek race, in the widest sense of the term, and including theGreeks of Asia Minor, with the Asiatics. Thus the historian hada vast epic subject presented to him, which was brought to anatural and glorious termination by the defeat of the Persians intheir attempts upon Greece. The work concludes with the reduc-tion of Sestos by the Athenians, 478. Herodotus wrote in theIonic dialect, and his style i
. A smaller history of Greece, from the earliest times to the Roman conquest. HPo^otoC 228 HISTORY OF GREECE. Chap. searches. But the real subject of the work is the conflict betweenthe Greek race, in the widest sense of the term, and including theGreeks of Asia Minor, with the Asiatics. Thus the historian hada vast epic subject presented to him, which was brought to anatural and glorious termination by the defeat of the Persians intheir attempts upon Greece. The work concludes with the reduc-tion of Sestos by the Athenians, 478. Herodotus wrote in theIonic dialect, and his style is marked by an ease and simplicitywhich lend it an indescribable charm. Thucydides, the greatest of the Greek historians, was an Athe-nian, and was bom in the year 471 His familywas connected with that of Miltiades and possessed gold-mines in Thrace, and enjoyedgreat influence in that country. He commandedan Athenian squadron of seven ships at Thasos, in424 , at the time when Brasidas was besiegingAinphipoHs; and having failed to relieve that cityin time, he went into a voluntary exile, in orderproba
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