Greek Life and Thought: From the Age of Alexander to the Roman Conquest (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Greek Life and Thought: From the Age of Alexander to the Roman Conquest

In'the second place, as this book was not in tended exclusively for scholars, it became necessary to introduce some account of the history and litera ture of the age as the background for the estimate of life and manners, which is my main Object. I might possibly have assumed a knowledge of this history and literature in the scholar, though, even for scholars, the epoch is one of great complication and obscu...