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The Story of the Greeks

by H. A. Guerber

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Contents

  1. Preface
  2. I. Early Inhabitants of Greece
  3. II. The Deluge of Ogyges
  4. III. The Founding of Many Important Cities
  5. IV. Story of Deucalion
  6. V. Story of Dædalus and Icarus
  7. VI. The Adventures of Jason
  8. VII. Theseus Visits the Labyrinth
  9. VIII. The Terrible Prophecy
  10. IX. The Sphinx's Riddle
  11. X. Blindness and Death of Œdipus
  12. XI. The Brothers' Quarrel
  13. XII. The Taking of Thebes
  14. XIII. The Childhood of Paris
  15. XIV. The Muster of the Troops
  16. XV. The Sacrifice of Iphigenia
  17. XVI. The Wrath of Achilles
  18. XVII. Death of Hector and Achilles
  19. XVIII. The Burning of Troy
  20. XIX. Heroic Death of Codrus
  21. XX. The Blind Poet
  22. XXI. The Rise of Sparta
  23. XXII. The Spartan Training
  24. XXIII. The Brave Spartan Boy
  25. XXIV. Public Tables in Sparta
  26. XXV. Laws of Lycurgus
  27. XXVI. The Messenian War
  28. XXVII. The Music of Tyrtæus
  29. XXVIII. Aristomenes' Escape
  30. XXIX. The Olympic Games
  31. XXX. Milo of Croton
  32. XXXI. The Jealous Athlete
  33. XXXII. The Girls' Games
  34. XXXIII. The Bloody Laws of Draco
  35. XXXIV. The Laws of Solon
  36. XXXV. The First Plays
  37. XXXVI. The Tyrant Pisistratus
  38. XXXVII. The Tyrant's Insult
  39. XXXVIII. Death of the Conspirators
  40. XXXIX. Hippias Driven Out of Athens
  41. XL. The Great King
  42. XLI. Hippias Visits Darius
  43. XLII. Destruction of the Persian Host
  44. XLIII. The Advance of the Second Host
  45. XLIV. The Battle of Marathon
  46. XLV. Miltiades' Disgrace
  47. XLVI. Aristides the Just
  48. XLVII. Two Noble Spartan Youths
  49. XLVIII. The Great Army
  50. XLIX. Preparations for Defense
  51. L. Leonidas at Thermopylæ
  52. LI. Death of Leonidas
  53. LII. The Burning of Athens
  54. LIII. The Battles of Salamis and Platæa
  55. LIV. The Rebuilding of Athens
  56. LV. Death of Pausanias
  57. LVI. Cimon Improves Athens
  58. LVII. The Earthquake
  59. LVIII. The Age of Pericles
  60. LIX. The Teachings of Anaxagoras
  61. LX. Beginning of the Peloponnesian War
  62. LXI. Death of Pericles
  63. LXII. The Philosopher Socrates
  64. LXIII. Socrates' Favorite Pupil
  65. LXIV. Youth of Alcibiades
  66. LXV. Greek Colonies in Italy
  67. LXVI. Alcibiades in Disgrace
  68. LXVII. Death of Alcibiades
  69. LXVIII. The Overthrow of the Thirty Tyrants
  70. LXIX. Accusation of Socrates
  71. LXX. Death of Socrates
  72. LXXI. The Defeat of Cyrus
  73. LXXII. The Retreat of the Ten Thousand
  74. LXXIII. Agesilaus in Asia
  75. LXXIV. A Strange Interview
  76. LXXV. The Peace of Antalcidas
  77. LXXVI. The Theban Friends
  78. LXXVII. Thebes Free Once More
  79. LXXVIII. The Battle of Leuctra
  80. LXXIX. Death of Pelopidas
  81. LXXX. The Battle of Mantinea
  82. LXXXI. The Tyrant of Syracuse
  83. LXXXII. Story of Damon and Pythias
  84. LXXXIII. The Sword of Damocles
  85. LXXXIV. Dion and Dionysius
  86. LXXXV. Civil War in Syracuse
  87. LXXXVI. Death of Dion
  88. LXXXVII. Philip of Macedon
  89. LXXXVIII. Philip Begins His Conquests
  90. LXXXIX. The Orator Demosthenes
  91. XC. Philip Masters Greece
  92. XCI. Birth of Alexander
  93. XCII. The Steed Bucephalus
  94. XCIII. Alexander as King
  95. XCIV. Alexander and Diogenes
  96. XCV. Alexander's Brilliant Beginning
  97. XCVI. The Gordian Knot
  98. XCVII. Alexander's Royal Captives
  99. XCVIII. Alexander at Jerusalem
  100. XCIX. The African Desert
  101. C. Death of Darius
  102. CI. Defeat of Porus
  103. CII. The Return to Babylon
  104. CIII. Death of Alexander the Great
  105. CIV. The Division of the Realm
  106. CV. Death of Demosthenes
  107. CVI. The Last of the Athenians
  108. CVII. The Colossus of Rhodes
  109. CVIII. The Battle of Ipsus
  110. CIX. Demetrius and the Athenians
  111. CX. The Achæan League
  112. CXI. Division in Sparta
  113. CXII. Death of Agis
  114. CXIII. The War of the Two Leagues
  115. CXIV. The Last of the Greeks
  116. CXV. Greece a Roman Province

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