CONTENTS.

Editor's Preface

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Preface to the History of Greece under Foreign Domination

Preface to Greece under the Romans

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From the Conquest of Greece to the Establishment of Constantinople

as Capital of the Roman Empire. B. C. 146-A.D. 330.

Introduction-Changes produced by the conquests of Alexander the Great

on the condition of the Greek nation

§ 1. Immediate causes of the conquest of Greece by the Romans.

§ 2. Treatment of Greece after its conquest

3. Effects of the Mithridatic war on the state of Greece

§ 4. Ruin of the country by the pirates of Cilicia.

§ 5. Nature of the Roman provincial administration in Greece

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§ 6. Fiscal administration of the Romans.

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§ 7. Depopulation of Greece caused by the Roman government

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§ 8. Roman colonies established in Greece

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§ 9. Political condition of Greece from the time of Augustus to that of

Caracalla .

§ 10. The Greeks and Romans never showed any disposition to unite and

form one people

§ 11. State of society among the Greeks

§ 12. Influence of religion and philosophy on society

§ 13. The social condition of the Greeks affected by the want of colonies

of emigration

§ 14. Effects produced in Greece by the inroads of the Goths

§ 15. Changes which preceded the establishment of Constantinople as the

capital of the Roman empire

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CHAPTER II.

From the Establishment of Constantinople as Capital of the Roman

Empire, to the Accession of Justinian. A.D. 330-527.

§ 1. Constantine, in reforming the government of the Roman empire,

placed the administration in direct hostility to the people

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2. The condition of the Greeks was not improved by Constantine's

reforms.

114

§ 3. Changes produced in the social condition of the Greeks by the

alliance of Christianity with their national manners

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§ 4. The Orthodox Church became identified with the Greek nation

§ 5. Condition of the Greek population of the empire from the reign of

Constantine to that of Theodosius the Great

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139

§ 6. Communications of the Greeks with countries beyond the bounds

of the Roman empire

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§ 7. Effect of the separation of the Eastern and Western Empires on the

Greek nation, A.D. 395

§ 8. Attempts of the Goths to establish themselves in Greece

§ 9. The Greeks arrested the conquests of the northern barbarians

§ 10. Declining condition of the Greek population in the European pro-

vinces of the Eastern Empire

§ II.

Improvement in the Eastern Empire from the death of Arcadius to

the accession of Justinian .

§ 12. State of civilization, and influence of national feelings, during this

period

CHAPTER III.

The Reign of Justinian. A.D. 527-565.

1. Influence of the imperial power on the condition of the Greek nation

§ 3. Influence of Justinian's legislation on the Greek population

§ 4. Internal administration, as it affected the Greeks

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§ 5. Influence of Justinian's conquests on the Greek population, and the

change effected by the conquest of the Vandal kingdom of

Africa

§ 6. Causes of the easy conquest of the Ostrogothic kingdom of Italy by

Belisarius.

§ 7. Relations of the northern nations with the Roman empire and the

Greek nation

§ 8. Relations of the Roman empire with Persia

§ 9. Commercial position of the Greeks, and comparison with the other
nations living under the Roman government

§ 10. Influence of the Orthodox Church on the national feelings of the

Greeks

§ 11. State of Athens during the decline of paganism, and until the ex-

tinction of its schools by Justinian

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CHAPTER IV.

From the Death of Justinian to the Restoration of Roman Power in the

East by Heraclius. A.D. 565-633.

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§ 1. The reign of Justin II. .

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§ 2. Disorganization of all political and national influence during the

reigns of Tiberius II. and Maurice.

297

§ 3. Maurice causes a revolution, by attempting to re-establish the ancient

authority of the imperial administration .

§ 4. Phocas was the representative of a revolution, not of a national party

§ 5. The empire under Heraclius

§ 6. Change in the position of the Greek population produced by the

Sclavonic establishments in Dalmatia

§ 7. The campaigns of Heraclius in the East

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CHAPTER V.

From the Mohammedan Invasion of Syria to the Extinction of the

Roman Power in the East. A D. 633-716.

§ 1 The Roman empire gradually changed into the Byzantine

§ 2. Conquest of the southern provinces of the empire, of which the

majority of the population was not Greek nor orthodox

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§ 3. Constans II followed the policy of Heraclius.

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§ 6. Anarchy in the administration until the accession of Leo III..

§ 7. The condition of the Greeks at the extinction of the Roman power

in the East

§ 5. Justinian II. Depopulation of the empire, and decrease of the

Greeks

§ 4. Constantine IV. yielded to the popular ecclesiastical party among

the Greeks

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IV. Catalogue of the edition of the Byzantine historians printed at Paris

and reprinted at Venice, with the additions required to complete it

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