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p 2 219 ANCIENT GREECE. [chap. xiv.
are so little able to mark the progress of its particular branches. But whatever influences these causes may have exercised, the great reason which retarded historic science before Herodotus lay in the want of subjects. ' Before the Persian wars, there was no subject capable of inspiring the historian. The Trojan war, the Argonautic expedition, all great undertakings, belonged to tradition, and hence belonged more than half to poetry. The narra- tions of the ...origin of the individual cities, accounts of dis- tant nations and countries, might gratify curiosity, might afford amusement; but nothing more. There existed no great national subject of universal interest.
At length came the Persian wars. The victory at Mara- thon first awakened a spirit of valour; whether this was more inflamed by the defeat at Thermopylae, or the victory at Salamis, it is difficult to say ; with the battle of Platseae, freedom was saved. What a subject for the historic Muse !
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p 2 219 ANCIENT GREECE. [chap. xiv.
are so little able to mark the progress of its particular branches. But whatever influences these causes may have exercised, the great reason which retarded historic science before Herodotus lay in the want of subjects. ' Before the Persian wars, there was no subject capable of inspiring the historian. The Trojan war, the Argonautic expedition, all great undertakings, belonged to tradition, and hence belonged more than half to poetry. The narra- tions of the ...origin of the individual cities, accounts of dis- tant nations and countries, might gratify curiosity, might afford amusement; but nothing more. There existed no great national subject of universal interest.
At length came the Persian wars. The victory at Mara- thon first awakened a spirit of valour; whether this was more inflamed by the defeat at Thermopylae, or the victory at Salamis, it is difficult to say ; with the battle of Platseae, freedom was saved. What a subject for the historic Muse !
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