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The History and Antiquities of the Doric by Karl Otfried Müller The Project Gutenberg EBook of The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 2 of 2 by Karl Otfried Müller This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at http://www.gutenberg.org/license Title: The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 2 of 2 Author: Karl Otfried Müller Release Date: September 28, 2010 [Ebook #34010] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO 8859-1 ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF THE DORIC RACE, VOL. 2 OF 2*** The History and Antiquities Of The The History and Antiquities of the Doric by Karl Otfried Müller 1 Doric Race by Karl Otfried Müller Professor in the University of Göttingen Translated From the German by Henry Tufnell, Esq. And George Cornewall Lewis, Esq., A.M. Student of Christ Church. Second Edition, Revised. Vol. II London: John Murray, Albemarle Street. 1839. CONTENTS Book III. Political Institutions Of The Dorians. The History and Antiquities of the Doric by Karl Otfried Müller 2 Chapter I. Chapter I. 3 Chapter II. Chapter II. 4 Chapter III. Chapter III. 5 Chapter IV. Chapter IV. 6 Chapter V. Chapter V. 7 Chapter VI. Chapter VI. 8 Chapter VII. Chapter VII. 9 Chapter VIII. Chapter VIII. 10 [...]... strictly in the spirit of an age, and of a race, in which religion, arts, and laws conduced far more than among any other people to attain the same end, and had their basis in the same notions 9 On the other hand, it was the pride of the Spartans, that their laws had proceeded from the oracle of the Pythian god:(41) and Tyrtæus says, in some verses of his Eunomia, that the fundamental principles of the Spartan... would the Spartan, who seldom left the town, and then only for a few days,( 122 ) have felt for Helots, who dwelt perhaps at Mothone! Nevertheless, the cultivation of the land was not the only duty of the Helots; they also attended upon their masters at the public meal,( 123 ) who, according to the Lacedæmonian principle of a community of goods, mutually lent them to one another.( 124 ) A large number of them... Spartans were possessed of herds and flocks, from which they provided young animals for the public meals.( 120 ) The proprietors, besides their share of the harvest, received from their lands, at particular periods, the fruits of the season.( 121 ) There could not, on the whole, have been much intercourse and connexion between the Spartans, as possessors of the land, and the bondsmen upon their estates For how... freedom, according to the laws of the Hylean model;" i.e., after the example of the Spartan constitution "For the descendants of Pamphylus, and of the Heraclidæ, who dwell under the brow of Taygetus, wish always to retain the Doric institutions of Ægimius." Now in the first place, this passage proves that the laws of Sparta were considered the true Doric institutions; and, secondly, that their origin was... throughout the whole of Crete, originated, according Chapter I 28 to the concurrent testimony of the ancients, in the time of Minos; and it has been already shown that the Dorians at that time extended their dominion to this island, which thus received their language and customs.(36) In Crete therefore, the constitution founded on the principles of the Doric race, was first moulded into a firm and consistent... from the possession of land, also carried on the extensive commerce of these two states; otherwise the wealth of the merchant would soon have exceeded that of the landowner In the Doric states also, which were much engaged in trade, such as Corinth, Ægina, &c., it was attempted to unite the government of hereditary aristocracy and of wealth.(14) The new importance attached to wealth, even at the time of. .. of Sparta Their political condition § 2 Their service in war § 3 Treatment of the helots § 4 The crypteia § 5 Various degrees of helotism § 6 Number of the helots § 7 The phylæ of Pitana, Limnæ, Mesoa, and Cynosura 1 The condition of the Perioeci and that of the Helots must be carefully distinguished from each other; the latter state may be termed "villenage," or "bondage," to which that of the Perioeci... spirit of the times, we have illustrated by the history of Athens, although the same course may be shown to have taken place in other, even originally Doric states Thus in Ambracia, about the same time as at Athens, the timocracy gradually passed into a Chapter I 27 democracy, (24 ) and at Argos also the democracy rose at the same period At the time of Polybius, the people had in the Doric states of Crete... INSTITUTIONS OF THE DORIANS 23 Chapter I 24 Chapter I § 1 End of a state according to the Doric notions § 2 Difference between the political institutions of the Dorians and Ionians § 3 Successive changes in the constitutions of the Greek states; 1st, royal aristocracy of the heroic ages § 4 2nd, Timocracy, or aristocracy of wealth § 5 3rd, Tyranny § 6 4th, Democracy § 7 Form of government characteristic of the. .. permitted them to be possessed, and apportioned them out to individuals, reserving to itself the power of enfranchising them But to sell them out of the country was not in the power even of the state; and, to the best of our knowledge, such an event never occurred It is, upon the whole, most probable that individuals had no power to sell them at all; since they were, for the most part, attached to the land, . 8859-1 ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF THE DORIC RACE, VOL. 2 OF 2* ** The History and Antiquities Of The The History and Antiquities. 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