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this little book was written just twenty years ago, ancient history, and more especially that of Hellas, has been opened up in every direction. The discoveries of Sir Arthur Evans in Crete, and many other excavations on Greek soil: the new researches into the "Homeric Age," e.g. (among many other works) Professor Ridgeway's Early Age of Greece, and Professor Gilbert Murray's Rise of the Greek Epic: fresh investigation of the historical age of Greece, especially from an economic point of view, as in Dr. Grundy's recent book on the Peloponnesian war, and in parts of Mr. Zimmern's Greek Commonwealth: the great advance in our knowledge of the Hellenistic age, to which Mr. Bevan's House of Seleucus makes a good introduction for a British student: all these, without counting the volume of work done on the Continent and in America, if they have not revolutionised Greek history, have at least greatly enlarged its boundaries and enlightened its votaries. Yet the political history of Greece remains substantially the same as it was twenty years ago, and the same may be