Here  Hellenic  culture  and  the  Orient  merged  into
speculative  ''isms"  that  have  never  ceased  to  attract
the  learned  world.  "Here  the  Hebrew  Scriptures
were  translated  into  Greek  (the  Septuagint),  250  B.  C;
here  Philo  the  Jew  attempted  to  harmonize  the  He-
brew Scriptures  with  Greek  philosophy."  Here  Euclid
worked  at  geometry,  Archimedes  in  physics,  and
Eratosthenes  in  geography  and  astronomy.  Here
grammar,  literature,  and  rhetoric  grew  into  shape,
and  here  Greek  philosophy  was  finally  worsted  by
Christianity.
REFERENCES

1.  Myers'  "General  History."

2.  "World  History  and  Its  Makers,"  vols.  I  and  IV.
3.  Lord's  "Old  Pagan  Civilizations."

4.  Davidson's  "History  of  Education."

5.  Graves'  "History  of  Education,"  vol.  I.
6.  Mahaffy's  "Old  Greek  Education."

7.  Monroe's  "Cyclopedia  of  Education."

8.  De  Quincey's  "Plato's  Republic."

9.  Hegel's  "Philosophy  of  Education."

10.  Walden's  "The  Universities  of  Ancient  Greece."


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QUESTIONS

1.  Give  an  account  of  the  tribal  migrations  out  of  which  the
Hellenes  or  Greeks  presently  emerged  triumphant  and  of  the
origin  of  Hellenic  tribes.
2.  What  was  the  peril  to  which  the  Persian  War  exposed
Greek  development  ?    Explain  the  course  of  events  and  the  issue.
3.  Sketch  briefly  the  golden  age  of  Athens,  her  terrible  fall,  and
the  end  of  Greek  independence.
4.  Show  that  the  same  individualism  present  in  Greek  wars
and  supremacies  was  the  dominating  thing  in  Greek  reUgion.
5.  Give  an  account  of  the  Greek  gods  and  the  weak  moral
guarantees  of  Greek  ideas  about  the  "future  state."

6.  Discuss  the  Greek  oracles,  together  with  the  temples  and
priests.
7.  Describe  the  sacred  games  of  the  Greeks,  and  show  how
they  served  as  a  means  in  the  development  of  the  Greeks.
8.  Account  for  the  character  of  education  in  the  Homeric  age.
