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- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- CHAPTER LXII Twenty-first Year of the War.—Oligarchy of Four Hundred at Athens
- CHAPTER LXIII The Restored Athenian Democracy, after the Deposition of the Four Hundred, down to the Arrival of Cyrus the Younger in Asia Minor
- CHAPTER LXIV From the arrival of Cyrus the Younger in Asia Minor down to the Battle of Arginusæ
- CHAPTER LXV From the Battle of Arginusæ to the Restoration of the Democracy at Athens, after the Expulsion of the Thirty
- CHAPTER LXVI From the Restoration of the Democracy to the Death of Alkibiadês
- CHAPTER LXVII The Drama.—Rhetoric and Dialectics.—The Sophists
- CHAPTER LXVIII Sokratês
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- CHAPTER LXII Twenty-first Year of the War.—Oligarchy of Four Hundred at Athens
- CHAPTER LXIII The Restored Athenian Democracy, after the Deposition of the Four Hundred, down to the Arrival of Cyrus the Younger in Asia Minor
- CHAPTER LXIV From the arrival of Cyrus the Younger in Asia Minor down to the Battle of Arginusæ
- CHAPTER LXV From the Battle of Arginusæ to the Restoration of the Democracy at Athens, after the Expulsion of the Thirty
- CHAPTER LXVI From the Restoration of the Democracy to the Death of Alkibiadês
- CHAPTER LXVII The Drama.—Rhetoric and Dialectics.—The Sophists
- CHAPTER LXVIII Sokratês
Summary
I had hoped to be able, in this Volume, to carry the history of Greece down as far as the battle of Knidus; but I find myself disappointed.
A greater space than I anticipated, has been necessary, not merely to do justice to the closing events of the Peloponnesian war, especially the memorable scenes at Athens after the battle of Arginusæ—but also to explain my views both respecting the Sophists and respecting Sokratês.
It has been hitherto common to treat the Sophists as corruptors of the Greek mind, and to set forth the fact of such corruption, increasing as we descend downwards from the great invasion of Xerxês, as historically certified. Dissenting as I do from former authors, and believing that Grecian history has been greatly misconceived, on both these points—I have been forced to discuss the evidences, and exhibit the reasons for my own way of thinking, at considerable length.
To Sokratês I have devoted one entire Chapter. No smaller space would have sufficed to lay before the reader any tolerable picture of that illustrious man—the rarest intellectual phænomenon of ancient times, and originator of the most powerful scientific impulse which the Greek mind ever underwent.
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- A History of Greece , pp. iii - ivPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1850