A Critical History of the Language and Literature of Antient Greece, Vol. 5 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from A Critical History of the Language and Literature of Antient Greece, Vol. 5Epitome of the text - 2. The Cyropaedia a historical romance. Character of its hero. Its historical element, as tested by other authorities. Cyrus. - 3. Cyaxares. Croesus. Other secondary per sons. Geographical element. Primitive Persian constitution. Mili tary system - 4. Miscellaneous customs. Religious worship. Persian art of war, compared with that of Sparta. Composition and style of the work. Their merits. Their defects - 5. Dialogue. Its diffuse ness. Homeric commonplace - 6. Difi'useness of the narrative. Its romantic element. Episode of Abradatas and Panthea. - 7. Judged by the standard of modern love-romance. Other pathetic passages. Descriptions of battles. Speeches - 8. Delineation of character. Cy-v rus. Llis t'acetious humour. His boyhood. His death. - 9. Cyaxares.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.