ANCIENT GREECE.

ANCIENT GREECE.
TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN OF ARNOLD H. L. H E E R E
GEORGE BANCROFT,

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TABLE OF CONTENTS.
CHAP. PAcm
General Preliminary Remarks vli
I. Geographical View of Groeco 1
II. Earliest Condition of the Nation 3 and its Branches , , . 21
III. Original Sources of the Culture of the Greeks . , * . 26
IV. The Heroic Age. The Trojan “War 50
V. The Period following the Heroic Age. Migrations. Origin
of Republican Forms of Government, and their Cha
racter . 62
VI. Homer. The Epic Poets 67
VII. Means of Preserving the National Character * . , , . 80
VIII. The Persian Wars and their Consequences 93
IX. Constitutions of the Grecian States 104
X, The Political Economy of the Greeks . .
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123
XI. The Judicial Institutions ..*..,.,. 146
XII. The Army and Navy 154
XIII. Statesmen and Orators 173
XIV. The Sciences in Connexion with tlie State 191
XV. Poetry and the Arts in Connexion with the State . . .217
XVI. Causes of the Fall of Greece 23o
THE TRANSLATOR’S PREFACE
TO THE FIRST EDITION,
THE volume of which a translation is here offered to the public, forms in
the original a portion of an extensive work, entitled,
” Bejections on the
Politics, Intercourse, and Commerce of the chief Nations of Antiquity.” Mr.
Heerea has accomplished his design only with respect to the nations of Asia
and Africa, On those of Europe ne has published nothing further than the
present series of essays, which relate solely to subjects connected with the
political institutions of the Greeks, and may be regarded as an independent
collection of historical sketches.
It is on that larger work that the literary reputation of Mr. Heeren prima
rily depends. Wim respect to the Asiatic and African nations,

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