GRECIAN STORIES. BY MARIA HACK. History, when properly taught, becomes a school of morality, and shows, Rollin. SECOND EDITION. London: PRINTED FOR HARVEY AND DARTON, GRACECHURCH- STREET; AND G. AND W. B. WHITTAKER, 1824. ADVERTISEMENT TO THE SECOND EDITION. In the first edition of this little work, the Stories were accompanied by Conversations, in which ancient customs were familiarly explained, and the lessons of morality or religion presented by the different narratives, became, occasionally, the subjects of discussion. Some persons have thought that the frequent interruptions occasioned by this plan, lessened the interest of the historical details, and rendered the work less eligible as a class-book for schools. In order to remove this objection, the book has now been re-modelled; and the explanatory remarks, formerly given in conversation, will be found incorporated with the narrative. The Conversation on War was necessarily omitted, as being too slightly connected with Grecian History to accord with the present plan. Chichester, 1824. GRECIAN STORIES. THE ARGONAUTS, Les poëtes, dont l'art par une audace étrange Et pour mieux amuser les oisives oreilles, THE Greeks, though now oppressed and degraded by their Turkish masters, were once a brave and free people, who excelled all the surrounding nations in learning, and in the arts of sculpture, painting, and architecture. Their history is also particularly interesting, because they were the first of all the European nations who emerged from VOL, I |