Produced by Adrian Mastronardi, Lisa Reigel, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries) Transcriber's Notes: Words in italics in the original are surrounded by _underscores_. Words in a Gothic font in the original are surrounded by =equal signs=. Characters superscripted in the original are surrounded by {braces}. A row of asterisks represents a thought break. Variations in spelling and hyphenation have been left as in the original. Words with and without accents appear as in the original. Ellipses match the original. A few typographical errors have been corrected. A complete list follows the text. Other notes also follow the text. PROBLEMS IN GREEK HISTORY BY J. P. MAHAFFY, M.A., D.D. _Fellow and Tutor of Trinity College, Dublin; Knight (Gold Cross) of the Order of the Redeemer; Hon. Fellow of Queen's College, Oxford; Author of 'Prolegomena to Ancient History,' 'Social Life in Greece,' 'A History of Classical Greek Literature,' &c., &c._ +London+ MACMILLAN AND CO. AND NEW YORK 1892 [_All rights reserved_] +Oxford+ HORACE HART, PRINTER TO THE UNIVERSITY PREFACE Even since the following sheets were printed, the researches into prehistoric Greek life, and its relation both to the East, to the Homeric poems, and to the Greece we know in the 7th century B.C., have progressed, and we are beginning to see some light through the mist. I can refer the reader to two books, of which one has just been published in English. The other, the second edition of Busolt's _History of Greece_, though still in the press, will be accessible to those that read German in a few weeks. I prefer to cite the former--Schuchardt's account of _Schliemann's Excavations_--in its English form, as it is there enriched with an Introduction, and apparently a revision of the text, by Mr. Walter Leaf. This is the first systematic attempt to bring into a short compass, with the illustrations, and with some regard to chronology, the great body of facts discovered and hastily consigned to many large volumes by the gifted discoverer. There is, moreover, a separate chapter (vi.) which gathers these facts under a theory, not to speak of the acute and cautious criticism of Mr. Leaf, which will be found in the Introduction to the volume. The Introduction to Busolt's _History_, of which (by the author's courtesy) I have seen some 130 pages, contains a complete critical discussion of the same evidence.