The History of Ancient Greece: Its Colonies, And Conquests 1, pt. 1
The History of Ancient Greece: Its Colonies, And Conquests 1, pt. 1
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de Music. f * Grsecorum antiquissima quaeque scripta vel optima. Horat*.
£pist» l.ii. ep.l.
350 THE HISTQRY Ot . 6£ as much difficulty two thccssa^d years ago ^ as it remains in the present age.
Since even the chronology of the ancient bards is so extremely uncertain \ it cannot be expected that we should be able to give a circumstantial iKTCOunt of their life and writings. Instead of considering minutely, therefore, the private history of individuals, a task wluch suits neither the design of t...he present work, nor the incredulity ' Herodotus, who read his history at the Olympic games 444 years B. C, expresses himself as follows: ** Homer and Hesiod lived ^ about four hundred years ago; not more; and these are the poets ^ who composed a Tbeogony for the Greeks ; who assignod to the « gods their respective appellations and epithets ; distinguished their ^ several forms, and defined the arts in which they excelled, and '^ the honours to which they were entitled. As to the poets who ** are supposed to faiave^ preceded them, I am of opinion that tfaey ^ flourished in a later age.*' According to Herodotus, therefbr6> the age of Homer is fifty years later than it is placed by the marbles of Paros.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
de Music. f * Grsecorum antiquissima quaeque scripta vel optima. Horat*.
£pist» l.ii. ep.l.
350 THE HISTQRY Ot . 6£ as much difficulty two thccssa^d years ago ^ as it remains in the present age.
Since even the chronology of the ancient bards is so extremely uncertain \ it cannot be expected that we should be able to give a circumstantial iKTCOunt of their life and writings. Instead of considering minutely, therefore, the private history of individuals, a task wluch suits neither the design of t...he present work, nor the incredulity ' Herodotus, who read his history at the Olympic games 444 years B. C, expresses himself as follows: ** Homer and Hesiod lived ^ about four hundred years ago; not more; and these are the poets ^ who composed a Tbeogony for the Greeks ; who assignod to the « gods their respective appellations and epithets ; distinguished their ^ several forms, and defined the arts in which they excelled, and '^ the honours to which they were entitled. As to the poets who ** are supposed to faiave^ preceded them, I am of opinion that tfaey ^ flourished in a later age.*' According to Herodotus, therefbr6> the age of Homer is fifty years later than it is placed by the marbles of Paros.
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