GREECE

a small country in south-e Europe, about the size of Scotland, wit! half as many people. More, its soutier: half, is a SL ete joined to the conti nental portion by the Isthranus of Corinth now pierced by a ship-canal. Its iceland form a large portion of the kingdom, anc coroprise the Ionian Islands, the Cyclades and the Sporades, including the larg island of Negropont (Eubaa), Currants olive oll, oranges, citrons, tobecco, wine See “Tet tt asia shes exporta, sons, the a in splendid ruina, Ita pert Patras bas a great trado in currants Corinth is now a decayed port. WN. Je NV a as in aoe bd ah Metaey has inuenced tho secular thought of succceding deS omer,, Herodotus, »- | Kechyins, Sophocles, Plato, Aristotle, and,0 | Demosthenes are among its most famous ' o-| Writers and orators. For sculpture and ne | Statuary Ancient Greece was equally reye | Markable, Phidias (6. 490 B.C.) being its ls| greatest artist, and the temple of Athena, t,| called the Parthenon, his greatest work. In the days of its greatne Greece comve | prised a number of small independent ¢ | States, In 333 B.C. it was conquered by.o| Philip IT. of Macedon. In 146 B.0, it bei, | came a Roman province, and in the middle x3 | of the 15th century fell into the hands of of | the Turks, A long struggle, which began | in 1820, ended in the Greeks shaking off 4 the Turkish yoke, and in clecting their own ‘, er, ° e| [s. 161]