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PROBLEMS IN GREEK HISTORY
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PROBLEMS
IN
GREEK HISTORY
BY
J. P. MAHAFFY, M.A., D.D.
Fellow and Tutor of Trinity College, Dublin; Knight (Gold
Cross) of the Order of the Redeemer; Hon. Fellow of
Queen's College, Oxford; Author of 'Prolegomena
to Ancient History,' 'Social Life in Greece,'
'A History of Classical Greek
Literature,' &c., &c.
London
MACMILLAN AND CO.
AND NEW YORK
1892
[All rights reserved]
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Oxford
HORACE HART, PRINTER TO THE UNIVERSITY
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PREFACE
Even since the following sheets were printed, the researches intoprehistoric Greek life, and its relation both to the East, to theHomeric poems, and to the Greece we know in the 7th century B.C., haveprogressed, and we are beginning to see some light through the mist. Ican refer the reader to two books, of which one has just been publishedin English. The other, the second edition of Busolt's History ofGreece, though still in the press, will be accessible to those thatread German in a few weeks. I prefer to cite the former—Schuchardt'saccount of Schliemann's Excavations—in its English form, as it isthere enriched with an Introduction, and apparently a revision of thetext, by Mr. Walter Leaf. This is the first systematic attempt to bringinto a short compass, with the illustrations, and with some regard tochronology, the great body of facts discovered and hastily consigned tomany large volumes by the gifted discoverer. There is, moreover, aseparate chapter (vi.) which gathers these facts under a theory, not tospeak of the acute and cautious criticism of Mr. Leaf, which will befound in the [...