THE CITY-STATE

OF THE

GREEKS AND ROMANS

A SURVEY

ORY TO THE STUDY OF

NT HISTORY

BY

W. WARDE FOWLER, M.A.

FELLOW AND SUB-RECTOR OF LINCOLN COLLEGE, OXFORD

London

MACMILLAN AND CO.

AND NEW YORK

1893

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PREFACE

if this book is, I hope, sufficiently troductory chapter. It may,

to add here that it is an

series of lectures given for

several sucecssive years to men just beginning the study of ancient history in the school of Literæ Humaniores at Oxford. Few of these men were likely to become specialists, and as the object of my course was therefore purely educational, I saw an opportunity of stimulating their interest, and of widening their historical horizon, by treating the subject as a whole, instead of plunging at once into the examination of a particular period or author. It occu

Arra to me that I might construct in outline a biography, as it were, of that form of State in which both Greeks and Romans lived and made their most valuable contributions to our modern civilisation, tracing it from its birth in prehistoric times to its dissolution under the Roman Empire.

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