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...Walden '88 will give the introductory lecture of his series of five lectures on "Ancient Greek University Life," in Harvard 1 this afternoon at 4.30 o'clock. His special topic will be, "Education in Greece before Alexander; the Macedonian period." Although these lectures are intended primarily for students and teachers, they will be open to the public. The remaining lectures will be given on the following Mondays: February 29; March 7; March 14; March...
February 15--Introductory: Education in Greece before Alexander; the Macedonian period...
...academic year 1901-'02. The following subjects for theses are proposed by the committee: The Idea of Beauty, as developed in Plato's writings and else-where in Greek Literature; A Comparison between the Tragedies of Seneca and their Greek Originals; The Constitution of Athens, from Solon to the Macedonian Conquest; Writing in the Mycenaean...
...classical writers are even more unsatisfactory in their allusions relating to the times before the Macedonian conquest. Fable is at its worst here. Thus in Pliny there is an absurd account of the gold-hunting of the Bactrians. The works of Herodotus, Diodorus, and Strabo contain numerous legends regarding the production of the precious metals. But the conquest of Persia by Alexander, laying open the vast treasure houses of Susa, Persepolis and Ecbatana afforded something like a measure of the metallic wealth which had been amassed through many centuries. In that early time this wealth amounted to hundreds of millions...
...Macedonian conquest changd the conditions under which, down to that time, the production of the precious metals had been carried on. Gold had already begun to lose its character as treasure, and take on its character as money. Gold to the value of L40,000,000 sterling was carried by Alexander into Macedonia, and from Macedonia it was carried by Paullus to Rome. Suddenly, violently, the whole mass accumulated unpper non-economic principles came under the control of economic law. The effect upon prices was enormous. It was characteristic of the Roman People that this effect was turned to evil...