Hutton Webster epub Readings in Ancient History (Classic Reprint)

My book, however, is not so much a classroom manual as a volume for supplementary reading. In choosing the selections, I have been influenced mainly by the desire to provide immature pupU swith a variety of extended, unified, and interesting extracts on matters which a textbook treats with necessary, though none the less deplorable, condensation. Particular emphasis, therefore, has been placed on biography and entertaining narrative. If the work shall help to arouse in the students mind an attitude of S3rmpathetic appreciation for the great characters and the great deeds of classical antiquity, it will have fulfilled its purpose. I wish to acknowledge here with hearty thanks the permission graciously granted to me by theD elegates of the Clarendon Press and by Prof. A. W. Mair of Edinburgh University, to use the extracts from Hesiod, by Messrs. G. Bell andS ons, to reproduce certain passages fromM r. E. J. Chinnock sversion of A rrian, and by theW alterS cott Publishing Company, to insert various letters of Pliny theY ounger, as rendered by Mr. J. B. Firth. The selections from Xenophon, translated by the late H. G. Dakyns, and from Csesar, translated by Mr. T. Rice Holmes, are used through an agreement with the publishers, Macmillan and Company, London.(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)About the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology.Forgotten Books' Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of historically important writings. Careful attention has been made to accurately preserve the original format of each page whilst digitally enhancing the aged text. Read books online for free at www.forgottenbooks.org