IN ILLUSTRATION OF A SLIGHT SKETCH OF UNIVERSAL HISTORY. COMPILED BY R. SIMPSON. PART II. PERSIA AND GREECE. PRINTED FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION BY J. BILLING AND SONS, GUILDFORD. 1875. PREFACE. THE Extracts contained in the following pages are in tended to illustrate the fifth and sixth chapters of a slight sketch of Universal History (those relating to Persia and Greece). They may be also read as a tolerably connected History of Ancient Greece, from the time of the Persian Invasion to the death of Alexander. My chief source has again been "Grote's History of Greece," and (to a much less extent) the German historian Curtius. The Extracts from Eschylus are mainly from Dr. Potter's version. Those from Sophocles from Dr. Francklin's, and those from Euripides from that by Wodhull. The illustrations of the Pastoral Poetry, Epigrams, &c., have been drawn from Dean Alford, Ancient Classics for English Readers, &c., &c. For Topography, names of places and Myths, I have availed myself of Dr. C. Wordsworth's Greece, "Tozer's Geography," and "Linton's Scenery of Greece." Ad |