Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . Grote, actually visited Greece, pub-lished in five volumes of a Critical History of theLiterature of Ancient Greece, a work which is still useful inrelation to Xenophon in particular. Modern historians of(Ti-eece and Rome are deeply indebted to the chronologicalrcsearclies of that most methodical scholar, Henry FynesClinton, Fasti Hellenici were published in 1824-32,to be followed by his Fasti
Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . Grote, actually visited Greece, pub-lished in five volumes of a Critical History of theLiterature of Ancient Greece, a work which is still useful inrelation to Xenophon in particular. Modern historians of(Ti-eece and Rome are deeply indebted to the chronologicalrcsearclies of that most methodical scholar, Henry FynesClinton, Fasti Hellenici were published in 1824-32,to be followed by his Fasti Roniani in lcS45-50. ThomasArnold, Headmaster of Rugby and Professor of History atOxford, besides jiniducing his memorable edition of Thucy- ENGLISH SCHOLARSHIP SIXCE irJ,Z 665 dides (1830-5), left behind bin. a splendid fragment of a ^^^History of Rome (ls:3,S-43), closing with the end ot theSecond Punic War. In Arnohls history the influence otNiebuhr is apparent. The historical structure raised byNiebuhrs <^cnius was attacked by an accomplished Englishstatesman, Sir George Cornewall Lewis, who, besides translating ^^:^i;^Boeckhs Public Economy of Athens, editing Babrius, and. BISHOP CONXOl {Westminster Abbcij.) writincr on the Astronomy of tlic Ancients, produced liis Inquiry into the Credibility of Early RomanHistory. George Lon-, of Trinity, Cambridge (who won the Lon^.^^^Craven with Macaulay and Maiden, and was elected Fellowover the heads of both), after holding Professorships inVir<nnia and in London, and contributing to Smiths Dic-tioiraries many articles on Ancient Geography and RomanLaw produced translations of Marcus and Epietotusandilhistrated the Civil Wars of Rome in an annotatedrendering of select Lives from Plutarch. lint his best workwas his History of the Decline of the Roman 666 THE SUCCESSIO^^ OF THE BEMOCBACY. Merivale,1803-1894. Maine,1822-1883. Classical Topo- grapliy. Republic (1864-74), the value of whic
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