A complete dictionary of the Greek and Roman antiquities explaining the obscure places in classic authors and ancient historians relating to the religion, mythology, history, geography and chronology of the ancient Greeks and Romans, their ... rites and customs, laws, polity, arts and engines of war : also an account of their navigations, arts and sciences and the inventors of them : with the lives and opinions of their philosophers / compiled originally in French ... by Monsieur Danet ; made English, with the addition of very useful mapps.

GRAECIA,

Greece, so called from King Graecus, who succeeded Cecrops, who com∣manded only in Attica, which was one of the fine Countries of Europe, called Hellas.

Ancient Writers have severally set the bounds of this Country; yet 'tis commonly agreed, that it is bounded by the Ionian Sea at the West, by Libya at the South, the Aege∣an Sea or Archipelagus at the East, and at the Mountains which divide it from Thracia, up∣per Mysia and Dalmatia.

Greece contains four great Provinces; viz. Macedonia, Epirus, Achaia, Peloponnesus, toge∣ther with all the Islands of the Ionlan Sea. They also join to it that part of Italy, which

was formerly called Great Greece, now Cala∣bria superiour. This Country exceeded all the Countries of Europe, for its temperature, good air, and plenty of all kinds of Fruits. The most famous Cities of Greece were Athens, Lacedemonia, Delphos, Argos, Mycene, Corinth. There were those Mountains, so famous in the Writings of the Poets, viz. Athos, Olym∣pus, Pelion, Parnassus, Helicon, Cytheron. Greece is esteemed the Mother of Arts and Sciences, that her Inhabitants had learnt of the Assyrians and Chaldaeans. She was conquered by Cyrus, and afterwards by the other Kings of Parsia.

After the death of Perseus the last King of Greece, the Romans subdued that Country.