Produced by Henry Flower, Adrian Mastronardi, Ramon Pajares Box and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE * Italics are denoted by underscores as in _italics_. * Small caps are represented in upper case as in SMALL CAPS. * Letter spaced Greek text is enclosed in tildes as in ~καὶ τὰ λοιπά~. * Footnotes have been renumbered. Each footnote is placed at the end of the paragraph that includes its anchor. * Obvious printer errors have been silently corrected, after comparison with a later edition of this work. Greek text has also been corrected after checking with this later edition and with Perseus, when the reference was found. * Original spelling, hyphenation and punctuation have been kept, but variant spellings were made consistent when a predominant usage was found. * Nevetherless, no attempt has been made at normalizing proper names (i.e. Xenophon and Xenophôn, Ægæan and Ægean, Laërtês and Laërtes, Corœbus and Korœbus etc.). The author established at the beginning of the first volume of this work some rules of transcription for proper names, but neither he nor his publisher follow them consistently. HISTORY OF GREECE I. Legendary Greece. II. Grecian History to the Reign of Peisistratus at Athens. BY GEORGE GROTE, ESQ. VOL. II. REPRINTED FROM THE SECOND LONDON EDITION. NEW YORK: HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS, 329 AND 331 PEARL STREET. 1877. CONTENTS. VOL. II. PART I. CONTINUATION OF LEGENDARY GREECE. CHAPTER XVIII. CLOSING EVENTS OF LEGENDARY GREECE.—PERIOD OF INTERMEDIATE DARKNESS, BEFORE THE DAWN OF HISTORICAL GREECE. SECTION I.—_Return of the Herakleids into Peloponnêsus._