The Story of the Greeks

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Guerber Hélène Adeline. The Story of the Greeks

PREFACE

I. EARLY INHABITANTS OF GREECE

II. THE DELUGE OF OGYGES

III. THE FOUNDING OF MANY IMPORTANT CITIES

IV. STORY OF DEUCALION

V. STORY OF DÆDALUS AND ICARUS

VI. THE ADVENTURES OF JASON

VII. THESEUS VISITS THE LABYRINTH

VIII. THE TERRIBLE PROPHECY

IX. THE SPHINX'S RIDDLE

X. BLINDNESS AND DEATH OF ŒDIPUS

XI. THE BROTHERS' QUARREL

XII. THE TAKING OF THEBES

XIII. THE CHILDHOOD OF PARIS

XIV. THE MUSTER OF THE TROOPS

XV. THE SACRIFICE OF IPHIGENIA

XVI. THE WRATH OF ACHILLES

XVII. DEATH OF HECTOR AND ACHILLES

XVIII. THE BURNING OF TROY

XIX. HEROIC DEATH OF CODRUS

XX. THE BLIND POET

XXI. THE RISE OF SPARTA

XXII. THE SPARTAN TRAINING

XXIII. THE BRAVE SPARTAN BOY

XXIV. PUBLIC TABLES IN SPARTA

XXV. LAWS OF LYCURGUS

XXVI. THE MESSENIAN WAR

XXVII. THE MUSIC OF TYRTÆUS

XXVIII. ARISTOMENES' ESCAPE

XXIX. THE OLYMPIC GAMES

XXX. MILO OF CROTON

XXXI. THE JEALOUS ATHLETE

XXXII. THE GIRLS' GAMES

XXXIII. THE BLOODY LAWS OF DRACO

XXXIV. THE LAWS OF SOLON

XXXV. THE FIRST PLAYS

XXXVI. THE TYRANT PISISTRATUS

XXXVII. THE TYRANT'S INSULT

XXXVIII. DEATH OF THE CONSPIRATORS

XXXIX. HIPPIAS DRIVEN OUT OF ATHENS

XL. THE GREAT KING

XLI. HIPPIAS VISITS DARIUS

XLII. DESTRUCTION OF THE PERSIAN HOST

XLIII. THE ADVANCE OF THE SECOND HOST

XLIV. THE BATTLE OF MARATHON

XLV. MILTIADES' DISGRACE

XLVI. ARISTIDES THE JUST

XLVII. TWO NOBLE SPARTAN YOUTHS

XLVIII. THE GREAT ARMY

XLIX. PREPARATIONS FOR DEFENSE

L. LEONIDAS AT THERMOPYLÆ

LI. DEATH OF LEONIDAS

LII. THE BURNING OF ATHENS

LIII. THE BATTLES OF SALAMIS AND PLATÆA

LIV. THE REBUILDING OF ATHENS

LV. DEATH OF PAUSANIAS

LVI. CIMON IMPROVES ATHENS

LVII. THE EARTHQUAKE

LVIII. THE AGE OF PERICLES

LIX. THE TEACHINGS OF ANAXAGORAS

LX. BEGINNING OF THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR

LXI. DEATH OF PERICLES

LXII. THE PHILOSOPHER SOCRATES

LXIII. SOCRATES' FAVORITE PUPIL

LXIV. YOUTH OF ALCIBIADES

LXV. GREEK COLONIES IN ITALY

LXVI. ALCIBIADES IN DISGRACE

LXVII. DEATH OF ALCIBIADES

LXVIII. THE OVERTHROW OF THE THIRTY TYRANTS

LXIX. ACCUSATION OF SOCRATES

LXX. DEATH OF SOCRATES

LXXI. THE DEFEAT OF CYRUS

LXXII. THE RETREAT OF THE TEN THOUSAND

LXXIII. AGESILAUS IN ASIA

LXXIV. A STRANGE INTERVIEW

LXXV. THE PEACE OF ANTALCIDAS

LXXVI. THE THEBAN FRIENDS

LXXVII. THEBES FREE ONCE MORE

LXXVIII. THE BATTLE OF LEUCTRA

LXXIX. DEATH OF PELOPIDAS

LXXX. THE BATTLE OF MANTINEA

LXXXI. THE TYRANT OF SYRACUSE

LXXXII. STORY OF DAMON AND PYTHIAS

LXXXIII. THE SWORD OF DAMOCLES

LXXXIV. DION AND DIONYSIUS

LXXXV. CIVIL WAR IN SYRACUSE

LXXXVI. DEATH OF DION

LXXXVII. PHILIP OF MACEDON

LXXXVIII. PHILIP BEGINS HIS CONQUESTS

LXXXIX. THE ORATOR DEMOSTHENES

XC. PHILIP MASTERS GREECE

XCI. BIRTH OF ALEXANDER

XCII. THE STEED BUCEPHALUS

XCIII. ALEXANDER AS KING

XCIV. ALEXANDER AND DIOGENES

XCV. ALEXANDER'S BRILLIANT BEGINNING

XCVI. THE GORDIAN KNOT

XCVII. ALEXANDER'S ROYAL CAPTIVES

XCVIII. ALEXANDER AT JERUSALEM

XCIX. THE AFRICAN DESERT

C. DEATH OF DARIUS

CI. DEFEAT OF PORUS

CII. THE RETURN TO BABYLON

CIII. DEATH OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT

CIV. THE DIVISION OF THE REALM

CV. DEATH OF DEMOSTHENES

CVI. THE LAST OF THE ATHENIANS

CVII. THE COLOSSUS OF RHODES

CVIII. THE BATTLE OF IPSUS

CIX. DEMETRIUS AND THE ATHENIANS

CX. THE ACHÆAN LEAGUE

CXI. DIVISION IN SPARTA

CXII. DEATH OF AGIS

CXIII. THE WAR OF THE TWO LEAGUES

CXIV. THE LAST OF THE GREEKS

CXV. GREECE A ROMAN PROVINCE

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Although Greece (or Hel´las) is only half as large as the State of New York, it holds a very important place in the history of the world. It is situated in the southern part of Europe, cut off from the rest of the continent by a chain of high mountains which form a great wall on the north. It is surrounded on nearly all sides by the blue waters of the Med-it-er-ra´ne-an Sea, which stretch so far inland that it is said no part of the country is forty miles from the sea, or ten miles from the hills. Thus shut in by sea and mountains, it forms a little territory by itself, and it was the home of a noted people.

The history of Greece goes back to the time when people did not know how to write, and kept no record of what was happening around them. For a long while the stories told by parents to their children were the only information which could be had about the country and its former inhabitants; and these stories, slightly changed by every new teller, grew more and more extraordinary as time passed. At last they were so changed that no one could tell where the truth ended and fancy began.

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As they had no compass, the Egyptian and Phœnician sailors did not venture out of sight of land. They first sailed along the shore, and then to the islands which they could see far out on the blue waters.

When they had come to one island, they could see another still farther on; for, as you will see on any map, the Mediterranean Sea, between Greece and Asia, is dotted with islands, which look like stepping-stones going from one coast to the other.

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