n a
quarrel with the western satraps, Tissaphernes and Artabazus; six
thousand veterans so experienced as those who had followed this famous
march into the heart of the Persian empire, had fought their way from
Cunaxa to Trapezus, and had supported themselves mainly by their
military prowess in getting from Trapezus to Europe, were a force by no
means to be neglected, and the bulk of the troops were not unwilling to
be incorporated in the Lacedaemonian armies. And so ends the story of the
Retreat of the Ten Thousand Greeks.

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GEORGE GROTE

History of Greece

George Grote, born at Beckenham, England, Nov. 17, 1794,
entered the bank founded by his grandfather, from which he
withdrew in 1843. He joined the group of "philosophic
Radicals," among whom James Mill was a leader, and was a keen
politician and reformer, and an ardent advocate of the ballot.
His determination to write a sound "History of Greece" was
ensured, if it was not inspired, by Mitford's history, a work
full of anti-democratic fervour and very antagonistic to the
great Greek democratic state of Athens. In some respects his
work is a defence of the Athenian democracy, at least as
contrasted with Sparta; it appeared in twelve volumes between
1846 and 1856, and covered Greek history from the earliest
times "till the close of the generation contemporary with
Alexander the Great." It at once occupied, and still holds,
the field as the classic work on the subject as a whole,
though later research has modified many of his conclusions.
His methods were pre-eminently thorough, dispassionate, and
judicial; but he suffers from a lack of sympathetic
imagination. He died on June 18, 1871, and was buried in
Westminster Abbey.

_I.--Early History_

The divine myths constitute the earliest matter of Greek history. These
may be divided into those which belong to the gods and to the heroes
respectively; but most of them, in point of fact, present gods, heroes,
and men in juxtaposition. Every community sought to trace its origin to
some common divine, or semi-divine, progenitor; the establishment of a
pedigree was a necessity; and each pedigree contains at some, point
figures corresponding to some actual historical character, before whom
the pedigree is imaginary, but after whom, in the main, actual. The
precise p