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FROM time to time I have found it necessary to rewrite portions of this book, in order to keep it abreast with modern discoveries, In the second edition some sixty pages had to be more or less recast, in consequence of the appearance of the {foJ.r-r;.:’a nuv ‘AIIYj’laiw’J ill 1891. 1lallY small changes have been ma(1c since then, and in this latest edition I have thonght it well t:J reconstruct the whole of Chapter II., which deals with the origins of the Greek nationality. Arch:Eological evidence on the prehistoric days oi the Aegean land<; l!as been acculllulating so fasl of latc that the VdlOlc section rcquircd reVISIon. The excavations of :Mr. A. J. Evans in Crete were enollgh by themselves to cause the introduction of several new paragraphs. I have also made appreciable changes in my narratives of some of the battles oi the fiith century E. C., mainly in comeC(uence of reading the very interesting monographs of :'.fr. Grundy, to ''I'hom I must express

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THE GEOGRAPHY OF GHEI~CE J; U AI~GE (;-”- CIVIIIZA·l’ION: ORIG1;-”- OF TIlE GRCCK NTION”-; ALITY 20; III HO:-’fFRIC POEMS AXD THE GREEKS OF THE HO~ICRlC -’GE :29; IV RC:LIGJOX OF TIlE GREEKS: OLY1lPIA A~n DELPHI 38; V THI~ Cw·::’!” ih(;!HTIO;:’; 4Ci; VI COLO~1E~ J: A~JA 5]; VII, DOrH:);S IN PElOPO:N£Sl:S-TIl£ LEGISL,TIOX OF Ly-; C C I{G V S; VII I ESTi BfJSn:r EXT OF SPAHT! ~ SCI’I

Greece: The History of Nations Series

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