PREFACE. THE plan of the present Work being altogether similar to that on Italy, which has already appeared from the Clarendon Press, it will not be necessary to advert here to the method which has been adopted in its composition. Little also need be said on its utility, in a place where the history of antiquity forms so essential a branch of public instruction. The same inducements which led to the publication of the Ancient Italy, existed perhaps in a still greater degree with regard to Greece; since, from the geography of that country being less known, it appeared to be more susceptible of illustration and improvement. Till within a few years we possessed in no language a detailed and full description of the former state of that interesting country. The student, who was desirous of |