Antiquities Of Ionia Vol 4 Classic Reprint

Author : Richard Chandler
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780265772423
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (724 download)

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Download or read book Antiquities of Ionia, Vol. 2 written by Richard Chandler and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-26 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Antiquities of Ionia, Vol. 2: Published by the Society of Dilettanti Other modern sophists, of a very different kind from these shallow retailers of the froth of history, have taken the contrary extreme; and because their deep researches could not discover that liberty, happiness, and security, for individuals, in ancient states, which superficial declaimers attributed to them, have questioned all the accounts of their energy, power, and population; and thus endeavoured to subvert all the authority of ancient history. The learned and elaborate essay of a late very acute and ingenious sceptic on this subject, is well known;* but without entering into any critical discussions concerning the corruptions of the texts, or the uncertainty of numerals in the Greek historians; or repeating any of the commonplace accusations of their disposition to exaggerate; we may, in answer to all the sceptical reasoning that human ingenuity can produce, point to the vast remains of splendour and power in the mouldered ruins of their public buildings; not only in the great ruling states, such as Athens, Corinth, and Syracuse, but in little obscure republics, such as Pastum, Segesta, and Selinus, whose names alone can be gleaned from history by the diligence of the antiquary; yet has the last and most obscure of these little states, left buildings, which surpass in size, strength, and solidity of construction, not only all that the greatest potentates of modern times have been able to accomplish, but all that was ever produced by the unlimited resources and unlimited despotism of the Roman emperors. The portico of the great temple of Selinus in Sicily, which is one of six still remaining, prostrate and in ruins, on the site of that city, consisted of a double peristyle of eight columns in front. 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.