The Story of the Greeks
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Contents and listed:
I. Early Inhabitants of Greece.
II. The Deluge of Ogyges
III. The Founding of Many Important Cities
IV. Story of Deucalion
V. Story of D�dalus 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 OEdipus
XI. The Brothers' Quarrel
XII. The Takin...
MoreContents and listed:
I. Early Inhabitants of Greece.
II. The Deluge of Ogyges
III. The Founding of Many Important Cities
IV. Story of Deucalion
V. Story of D�dalus 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 OEdipus
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 Tyrt�us
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 Thermopyl�
LI. Death of Leonidas
LII. The Burning of Athens
LIII. The Battles of Salamis and Plat�a
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 Ach�an 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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