A History of Thessaly, From the Earliest Historical Times to the Accession of Philip V. Of Macedonia

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Excerpt from A History of Thessaly, From the Earliest Historical Times to the Accession of Philip V. Of Macedonia: Printed in Part, Thesis Presented to the Faculty of the Department of Philosophy of the University of Pennsylvania, in Partial Fulfilment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy The history of Thessaly may at present be found stowed away in the larger and more detailed histories of Greece, monographs on particular features pr events exist in the periodicals, and some meager encyclopaedia articles are also at hand, but in such form the material is too inaccessible to give more than a general vague idea. To present this therefore in connected form is the purpose of this dissertation, and if a little light is occasionally thrown upon some point formerly obscure, the writer will be more than satisfied. In doing this an attempt has been made to work up the subject chiefly from ancient sources, hence the references to the works of modern writers may seem disproportionately few. This should not be taken to mean however that recent literature on the subject has been neglected, for that would be untrue. Among many helpful works and shorter articles the writer wishes to acknowledge especial indebtedness to Busolt's "Griechische Geschichte", Schafer's "Demosthenes und seine Zeit" and Droysen's "Geschichte des Hellenismus, " which have served as correctives to many an error. And he will farther feel truly grateful to any reader, who, detecting the errors that doubtless still remain, will take the trouble to inform him of them. In quoting authorities, so far as possible the comma is used to separate references to the same work or to the same author, and the semicolon to separate references to different authors. The exigencies of the case have in a few instances caused variations from this general practice. For convenience, spurious works (as for example many of the orations of Demosthenes) are in the references assigned without comment to the author with whose name they are commonly though wrongly connected. A confession of faith seems necessary nowadays upon the subject of the spelling of proper names. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.