CHAPTER VIII.
Alexander the Great.
The further course of Greek history.
§ 63. As I have said already, the death of Demosthenes is the favourite terminus for the political historians of Greece. But let us not grow weary,—let us survey the fortunes of the race for some centuries more, touching upon those turning-points or knotty points where it seems that the evidence has not been duly stated or weighed.
Droysen's Geschichte des Hellenismus.
In approaching the work and the character of Alexander, we come upon a new authority among modern historians, whom we have not yet encountered. Droysen, who unfortunately devoted the evening of his life to Prussian history, employed his brilliant abilities for years in researches upon the history of Alexander and of his immediate successors. His latest work on this period is no doubt the fullest and best to which we can refer, and it seems a very great omission that it has not been as yet translated into our language.
This period much neglected by English historians.
Nature of our authorities.
This is more specially to be desired as we have no great English history of these times. It is but another instance of what has been so often urged