to a certain point, a general idea of the Greek system of quantities, in an English dress. This plan has been pursued till the reader is supposed to be tolerably versed in its ordinary application; after this point, the prosodial marks have been gradually withdrawn; and though some few deviations will occasionally be noticed, they are not of such a nature as to inconvenience the reader, who will have already gone through copious examples of a similar formation. E. POCOCKE. London, May, 1851. NAMES OF CONTRIBUTORS. E. POCOCKE, Esq. CHAPTERS I., II., III., IV., V., and VI.; CHAPTER VII., excepting the Life of Lycurgus; CHAPTER VIII., excepting the Lives of Codrus, Draco, Solon, and the Peisistratidæ. SIR THOMAS NOON TALFOURD, D.C.L., ONE OF THE JUSTICES OF HER MAJESTY'S COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. The article on the Peisistratidæ, and the articles constituting CHAPTERS IX., X., and XII., were contributed to the first edition of the Encyclopædia Metropolitana by writers who are unknown to the present Editor. They have all been revised for this edition. CHAPTER VII.-EARLY HISTORY OF THE PELOPONNESIAN STATES, CHAPTER IX.-THE PERSIAN WAR, B. C. 490 to B. C. 469 SECTION 1. Invasion of Greece by command of Darius, King of Persia 214 5. Pythagoras.-The Political, Religious, and Scientific 172 176 191 . 193 . 207 214 CHAPTER XII.-RECAPITULATION OF THE HISTORY OF GREECE, FROM THE BATTLE OF MARATHON TO THE CLOSE OF THE PELOPONNESIAN WARS, B. C. 490 to B. C. 404 € 314 CHAPTER XIII.-ON THE SOCIAL CONDITION OF THE ANCIENT GREEKS. 357 |