Library of Universal History And Popular Science volume 3
Library of Universal History And Popular Science volume 3
Isreal Smith Clare
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427). He was very popular, and wrote comedies for many years. His plays, like those of the early comic poets, consisted of caricatures and ludicrous representations of living men and manners. He composed fifty-four plays, of which only sev- enteen remain. Greek historical writing arose in the fifth century before Christ. The only records of the past prior to this period were the legends and fables of the poets and the uncertain accounts transmitted from age to age by tradition. HERODOTUS, the f...irst Greek historian called " the Father of History " was born at Halicarnassus, in Asia Minor, B. C. 484. After reaching manhood he removed to Samos, where the elegant Ionic in which Homer's poems were composed was the pre- vailing dialect. Herodotus soon completely mastered this dialect, and his works are said to exhibit it in greater perfection than those of any other Greek writer. After forming the design of writing history, he traveled for materials into Egypt and Italy and also into different parts of Asia, acquiring much valuable information in this way con- cerning nations previously unknown and manners and customs never described before.
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