Produced by Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images available at The Internet Archive) [Illustration: LANDS OF THE AEGEAN] UNIFORM WITH THIS VOLUME THE GRANDEUR THAT WAS ROME: A Survey of Roman Culture and Civilisation. By J. C. STOBART, M.A. With about 200 Illustrations in Colour, Gravure, Collotype, Half-tone and Line. TO BE PUBLISHED IN 1912. _An Illustrated Prospectus will be published in due course._ THE GLORY THAT WAS GREECE [Illustration: _Aphrodite of Melos_ Mansell & Co. Photo. Emory Walker Ph] THE GLORY THAT WAS GREECE A Survey of Hellenic Culture & Civilisation: by J. C. Stobart, M.A. LATE LECTURER IN HISTORY TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE [Illustration: colophon] LONDON SIDGWICK & JACKSON LTD. 3 Adam Street, Adelphi 1911 _All rights reserved_ PRINTED BY BALLANTYNE & COMPANY LTD AT THE BALLANTYNE PRESS TAVISTOCK STREET COVENT GARDEN LONDON PREFACE With the progress of research, classical scholarship tends more and more towards narrower fields of specialisation. Real students are now like miners working underground each in his own shaft, buried far away from sight or ear-shot of the public, so that they even begin to lose touch with one another. This makes an occasional survey of the whole field of operations not only necessary for interested onlookers, whether they happen to be shareholders or not, but also serviceable to the scholars themselves. The task of furnishing it, however, is not an easy one. No man nowadays can be as fully equipped in archæology, history, and literary criticism as were great writers of general history in the last century like George Grote and Theodor Mommsen. We are driven, therefore, to one of two courses: either to compile encyclopædic works by various writers under slight editorial control, or else to sacrifice detail and attempt in a much less ambitious spirit to present a panorama of the whole territory from an individual point of view. The former plan is constantly producing valuable storehouses of information to be used for purposes of reference. But they tend to grow in bulk and compression, until, like the monumental “Paully-Wissowa,” they are nothing but colossal dictionaries.