In compiling these Outlines I have drawn from various sources. In the introductory portion, Ideler's Handbuch der Chronologie has been of the most service, though I owe something to J. Brandis's excellent monograph on early Greek chronology. The important work of A. Mommsen, Chronologie, etc., had not appeared when I wrote the section on the Calendar, but in regard to the Attic festivals I am indebted to the same writer's Heortologie. In the Tables I have used Fischer's Zeittafeln, which unfortunately only go down to 560 b.c.; Clinton's Fasti Hellenici; and the chronological table appended to the German edition of Curtius's History of Greece. In regard to the Peloponnesian war, Thucydides is, of course, sufficient; the period which follows is more confused, for no amount of ingenuity can introduce precision into the chronology of Xenophon. For the period of Demosthenes, A. Schaefer—Demosthenes ​und seine Zeit—is an admirable guide. Lastly, in regard to Alexander, I have used Droysen and Grote.

For part of the Literary chronology, I have drawn largely on an admirable paper by Diels in the Rheinisches Museum.

The outlines of Athenian and Lacedaemonian Constitutional History are mainly taken from Schömann's Antiquitates juris publici Graecorum. The chronology of this part of Greek History is often so uncertain, that I did not venture to include it in the tables.

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