Prefatory Note HPHIS work is not intended for classical scholars so much as for general readers, to whom, I hope, it may prove useful. LONDON, 1907. A. S. G. CANNING. CHAPTER I British Writers on Classic Lands CHAPTER I DURING the last century the most celebrated countries of the ancient world in Western Asia, Northern Africa and South-Eastern Europe have evidently been more explored, examined, and written about than at any previous period yet their elucidation owed comparatively little to the natives of these interesting ...
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Prefatory Note HPHIS work is not intended for classical scholars so much as for general readers, to whom, I hope, it may prove useful. LONDON, 1907. A. S. G. CANNING. CHAPTER I British Writers on Classic Lands CHAPTER I DURING the last century the most celebrated countries of the ancient world in Western Asia, Northern Africa and South-Eastern Europe have evidently been more explored, examined, and written about than at any previous period yet their elucidation owed comparatively little to the natives of these interesting lands. Neither the Arabs in Asia or Africa, nor the Turks or Persians, or even the modern Greeks, have given much assistance in the investigation of their ancestral countries. This grand enterprise was chiefly, if not mainly, due to the learning, energy, and resources of the western European nations. It was from Britain, France, Germany, and Italy that industrious explorers, animated by literary in struction and strengthened by the warlike powers
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