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Page 189 - Aegean to the Indus, and from the steppes of Scythia to the cataracts of the Nile. He divided this vast tract into twenty satrapies or provinces, and appointed the tribute which each was to pay to the royal treasury. The western coast was connected with the seat of government by a high road, on which the distances were regularly marked, and spacious buildings were placed at convenient intervals to receive all who travelled in the king's name. The satraps in their provinces were so many almost independent...
Page 179 - According to our view of this celebrated society, it is not surprising that it should have presented such a variety of aspects, as to mislead those who fixed their attention on any one of them, and withdrew it from the rest. It was at once a philosophical school, a religious brotherhood, and a political association ; and all these characters appear to have been inseparably united in the founder's mind.
Page 57 - However near the poet, if he is to be considered as a single one, may be supposed to have lived to the times of which he sings, it is clear that he did not suffer himself to be fettered by his knowledge of the facts. For aught we know, he may have been a contemporary of those who had fought under Achilles ; but it is not the less true that he describes his principal hero as the son of a sea-goddess. He and his hearers most probably looked upon epic song as a vehicle of history, and therefore it required...
Page 222 - ... fail them, to commit their safety and their hopes of victory to their newly strengthened navy. This counsel had prevailed ; and the time was now come when the resolution founded upon it was to be carried into effect. After desolating Phocis, the Persian army passed peacefully through Boeotia towards Athens, for all the Boeotian cities, except Thespiae and Plataeae, which were reduced to ashes, had submitted and received Persian garrisons. At Athens, Themistocles moved a decree that the city should...
Page 147 - He charged the forty-eight sections, called naucrariae (vavKpapiai), into which the tribes had been divided for financial purposes, each with the equipment of a galley, as well as with the mounting of two horsemen. He also gave active encouragement to trade and manufactures, and with this view invited foreigners to settle in Attica, by the assurance of protection and large privileges.
Page 149 - Athens for some years, to watch its working and to see its principles gaining hold of the popular mind, than that he immediately quitted his country. On his return to Athens, about B. c. 562, he found that faction had been actively engaged in attempting to pervert and undo his work. The three parties of the Plain, the Coast, and the Highlands, had revived their ancient feuds. The first of them was now headed by Lycurgus, the second by Megacles (a grandson of the archon who had brought the curse upon...
Page 172 - Scyllis, but was probably promoted by the closer connection into which statuary was brought with architecture, and by the increased sumptuousness of the temples, in which marble frequently took the place of ordinary stone. Statuary received another great impulse from the enlargement in the range of its subjects, and the consequent multiplicity of its productions. So long as statues were confined to the interior of temples, and no more were seen in each sanctuary than the idol of its worship, there...
Page 149 - ... felt. He made no visible changes in the Constitution, but suffered the ordinary magistrates to be appointed in the usual manner, the tribunals to retain their authority, and the laws to hold their course. In his own person he affected the demeanour of a private citizen, and displayed his submission to the laws by appearing before the Areopagus to answer a charge of murder, which, however, the accuser did not think fit to prosecute.* He continued to show honour to Solon, to court his friendship,...
Page 66 - The soul could enjoy no rest in the nether world, le funeral rites had been duly performed : it was regarded as a mere shadow of its former self, and as pursuing only the empty image of its former enjoyments and occupations. The favour of the gods was believed to be obtained by worship and sacrifices. The simple feeling of dependence on the divine bounty was naturally expressed in the form of an offering, which, however trifling in itself, might be an adequate symbol of the religious sentiment. But...
Page 21 - Creta, ii. p. 7. conclusion that the name Pelasgians was a general one, like that of Saxons, Franks, or Alemanni : but that each of the Pelasgian tribes had also one peculiar to itself*.