Identifier: HistoryOfGreeceForHighSchoolsAndAcademies (find matches)
Title: History of Greece for High Schools and Academies
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Botsford, George Willis, 1862-1917
Subjects: Greece -- History
Publisher: New York : Macmillan Co.

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toricperiod. Our knowledge of this subject is mainly inference from thestructure of states and of leagues as we find them in later time.About 700 B.C. men began to use the alphabet for recording con-temporary events and for writing literature, — hence we say that thehistoric period began at this time. For colonization our chief sourceis Strabo; for the settlements in Italy and Sicily, Thuc. vi, 2-5. Modern Authorities on Colonization Oman, History of Greece, ch. ix; Holm, History of Greece, I, ch. xxi;Abbott, History of Greece, I, ch. xi; Curtius, History of Greece, I,bk. II, ch.iii; Grote, History of Greece, III, chs. xxii, xxiii; IV, chs.xxvi, xxvii; Timayenis, History of Greece, I, pt. ii, ch. v; Allcroft andMasom, Early Grecian History, ch. vi; Cox, Greeks and Persians,ch. vi, p. 26 ff; Freeman, Story of Sicily, chs. ii, iv; Greenidge, Hand-book of Greek Constitutional History, ch. iii; Cunningham, WesternCivilization in its Economic Aspects, bk. II, ch. i 1 Strait of Gibraltar.
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The Areopagus (A Group of Excavators in the Foreground.) CHAPTER III ATHENS AND SPARTA TO THE TIME OF SOLON: KING-SHIP, ARISTOCRACY, AND TIMOCRACY (750-594 B.C.) We are told in myth that the Dorians once invaded Athens.Attica while Codrus, the Glorious, was king of thecountry. Word came to him from Apollo at Delphi that Myth ofthe army whose leader should be killed by the enemy Codlus*would be victorious in the war. Thereupon he laid asidehis royal robe, and, dressing himself like a shepherd, wentinto the Dorian camp. There he intentionally provokeda quarrel and was slain without being known, thus bring- 41 42 Athens and Sparta to the- Time of Solon Decennial kings, 753 B.C. (?) Cf. p. 15. Arist. Ath.Const. 3. 713 B.C. (?) Annual offi-ces, 683 B.C. P. 13. ing eternal glory to himself and victory to his country.The Athenians out of gratitude for his heroic self-sacrificedecreed that his son, Medon, should reign in his stead;and after Medon his descendants, the Medontidae, werekings of

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