Transcriber's note

• The book cover image was created by the transcriber and is placed in the public domain.
• Footnotes have been renumbered and moved to the end of the book.
• Blank pages have been skipped.
• Obvious printer errors have been silently corrected, after comparison with a later edition of this work. Greek text has also been corrected after checking with this later edition and with Perseus, when the reference was found.
• Original spelling, hyphenation and punctuation have been kept, but variant spellings were made consistent when a predominant usage was found.
• Nevetherless, no attempt has been made at normalizing proper names (i.e. Agrianes and Agriânes, Onchestus and Onchêstus, Megalêpolis and Megalê-Polis, Mantinea and Mantineia, Crête and Krête, Phenicians and Phœnicians, etc.). The author established at the beginning of the first volume of this work some rules of transcription for proper names, but neither he nor his publisher follow them consistently.
• In the Table of Contents, some page numbers have been emended so that they refer to the actual pages where chapters begin and end.
• Some maps are rotated for the benefit of e-readers, but enlarged images of these maps, unavailable in e-readers, are in their unrotated presentation.