GREEK AND ROMAN HISTORY.

IN

GREEK AND ROMAN HISTORY;

OR,

STUDIES IN GENERAL HISTORY

FROM 1000 B.C TO 476 A.D.

BY

MARY D. SHELDON,

RECENTLY PROFESSOR OF HISTORY IN WELLESLEY COLLEGE.

"Human affairs are neither to be laughed at nor wept over,
but to be understood."

BOSTON:

D. C. HEATH & CO., PUBLISHERS.

1897.

HARVARD COLLEGE
hov. 17, 1939)

LIBRARY

Massachusetts Historical Society

COPYRIGHT, 1886,
BY MARY SHELDON BARNES.

J. S. CUSHING & Co., PRINTERS, BOSTON.

ΤΟ

MY PUPILS AT WELLESLEY COLLEGE

AND AT OSWEGO,

TO WHOSE WARM ENCOURAGEMENT AND SYM

PATHY THIS BOOK IS LARGELY DUE, IT

IS MOST LOVINGLY DEDICATED.

MARY D. SHELDON.