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  spectacle.--The astrologers.--Study of the stars.--Warning of the astrologers.--Alexander''s perplexity.--Death of Hephæstion.--Alexander''s melancholy.--Funeral


id: 27240
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  "King Ptolemy to King Pyrrhus, greeting;" whereas the genuine letters of Ptolemy to his son-in-law were always commenced thus: "The father to his son, greeting


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  the elephants.--The battle.--The elephants.--War chariots.--Doubtful victory.--Winter-quarters.--Nicias.--Pyrrhus''s physician.--His treachery.--A generous exchange of prisoners.--No


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  Themistocles BOOK II CHAPTER VI Beginning of the Peloponnesian War--First Invasion of Attica--Funeral Oration of Pericles


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id: 19328
title: The Sea-Kings of Crete
author: Baikie, James
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  subject of Mycenæan and Minoan art--a great bull; while on the for use in the palace; but the actual remains of a Minoan town, till the beginning of the Late Minoan period, while at Knossos the like other Cretan sites, during the Third Late Minoan period, it coast of Crete, to which it was probably united in ancient days, Mr. Seager has excavated, in 1907 and 1908, an Early Minoan necropolis, little farther, to Early Minoan III., there is evidence of Egyptian These Keftiu, then, were the Minoans of the Great Palace period of in whose time the great civilization of the Minoan Empire reached its Middle Minoan period closes with the evidence of such a general _Early Minoan I_.--The pottery of this period takes over in great evidence of a great catastrophe at Knossos, in which the palace was When, at the beginning of the Late Minoan period, the Palace of


id: 23495
title: The Story of the Greeks
author: Guerber, H. A. (Hélène Adeline)
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  The country was soon peopled by the children of these men, who always the gods, and they called the time when they lived the Heroic Age. Not satisfied with freeing their own country from wild men and beasts, the king, who, having some time before conquered the Athenians, forced body of water near the rock is still known as the Æ-ge''an Sea. When Theseus reached Athens, and heard of his father''s grief and sudden Soon after this fight, OEdipus came to the city of Thebes. the Greek heroes, and their great deeds during the Trojan War. We are told that this old man, whose name was Ho''mer, had not always they soon killed three hundred Spartans and one of their kings. they fought with such bravery that soon the army of The Great King was and the beauty and art loving Athenians could soon boast that their city


id: 27240
title: Pyrrhus Makers of History
author: Abbott, Jacob
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  Alexander the Great, the birth of Pyrrhus having taken place about In the mean time, Olympias had determined to come to Macedon, and aid also sent to Epirus, to Æacides the king, the father of Pyrrhus, royal family of Epirus was involved at the time when Pyrrhus first Time passed on, until at length Pyrrhus was twelve years old. Pyrrhus, for it was now for the first time that he had an army wholly aim.--Pyrrhus is invited to come to Tarentum.--Great numbers of being engaged in a war with the Romans, invited Pyrrhus to come and leading powers in that city ready to welcome Pyrrhus as soon as he This event took place many years before the time of Pyrrhus''s Pyrrhus at length determined to force his enemies to battle. At the time when Pyrrhus was driven from Macedon by Lysimachus, the time of Pyrrhus''s arrival, and that the command of the army


id: 30624
title: Alexander the Great Makers of History
author: Abbott, Jacob
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  mind.--Secret of Alexander''s success.--The story of Bucephalus.--Philip son.--Philip''s power.--His plans of conquest.--Alexander''s impatience Alexander was placed, to afford him a great opportunity for the "Alexander," said they, "is _great_, while our king is only _rich_." Alexander returned to Macedon, and great preparations were made for a Alexander advanced, and, passing round the city toward the southern Alexander left an army of ten or twelve thousand men with Antipater These men are called, in modern times, _scouts_; in Alexander''s day, continued their advance, while Alexander called the leading generals coolness, courage, and strength of Alexander''s army carried the day. army.--Preparations for the battle.--Alexander surveys the Persian Alexander''s army consisted of about fifty thousand men, with the In the mean time, as Alexander advanced toward Ecbatana, Darius and The officers of Alexander''s army were excited and stated, under Philip, Alexander''s father, and had acquired great Clitus was a very celebrated general of Alexander''s army, and a great


id: 22677
title: Greece and the Allies 1914-1922
author: Abbott, G. F. (George Frederick)
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  Venizelos, answered that the Greek Government was convinced August he informed King Constantine through the Greek Minister in Kaiser''s Government thought King Constantine''s attachment to neutrality Venizelos offered to the Entente Ministers the adhesion of Greece King Constantine''s proposal to the Entente Powers in August for common Government that the Entente Powers still hoped that Greece would come [20] Communication of Entente Powers to Greek Premier, 21 July/3 Aug.; Greece do if the Allied forces retired into Greek territory? or intern the Allied troops, and that the Greek Government in its At the time of the Crimean War, Greece, under King Otho, wanted to represented as made by order of the Athens Government: King Constantine, be handed to King Constantine himself, the Entente Governments declining the same time the King informed the French and British Ministers that November: the Entente Powers would present to the Greek Government a


id: 4716
title: A Day in Old Athens; a Picture of Athenian Life
author: Davis, William Stearns
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  Athenian Pottery an Expression of the Greek Sense of Beauty . Attica in general; but what of the setting of the city of Athens of the old Athenian life in Zimmern''s "The Greek Commonwealth," p. Preëminently Athens may be called the "City of the Simple Life." great side of civilization which the city of Athens might develop the Hellene,--Old Age. Athenian women especially (though the men Slavery an Integral Part of Greek Life.--An Athenian lady cares The Schoolboy''s Pedagogue.--It is a great day for an Athenian in Athens) as possible, and must they not some day, as good citizens, By eighteen the young Athenian''s days of study will usually come The Commerce of Athens.--Part of Athenian wealth comes from the boys, there are three great public Gymnasia at Athens,--the a marked man around Athens or any other Greek city. The Acropolis of Athens.--Almost every Greek city has its own


id: 2096
title: A Smaller History of Greece: from the Earliest Times to the Roman Conquest
author: Smith, William
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  The fall of Troy is placed in the year 1184 B.C. The return of the Grecian leaders from Troy forms another series of Spartan king marched against Ithome, and a second great battle was and most powerful of the Lydian kings, who ascended the throne B.C. 560, conquered in succession all the Grecian cities on the coast. Cyrus, the Greek cities of Asia remained obedient to their Persian states, under the command of the Spartan king Leonidas, a force which and the Athenians would sail away to Italy and there found a new city, Peloponnesian cities; and the Athenian envoys returned to Salamis with of six years the revolt was put down by the Persians, and the Athenian At the same time, the Athenian fleet entered the Great Harbour, where miles north of Athens, and commanding the Athenian plain. of the Greek cities in Asia; and in order that there might be time to


id: 6151
title: Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Book I
author: Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron
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  I Remarks on the Effects of War.--State of Athens.--Interference earliest Civilizers of Greece foreigners or Greeks?--The Foundation of race which appear to have exercised a dominant power in Greece. kings can be traced by tradition to a time long prior to the recorded mythological fable, I believe the earliest civilizers of Greece to king over a Grecian state:--the social life of the gods is the life formed by intercourse between Greece and Egypt in a far later age. whole character of the Athenian people--moral, social, religious, and At that time, as I have before stated, Greece was overrun by robbers: an extensive population was necessary to a powerful state, so Theseus A General Survey of Greece and the East previous to the time of the most powerful of the states of Greece; and Argos, next to Sicyori, many of the Dorian states--even Sparta itself--appear to have been


id: 6152
title: Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Book II
author: Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron
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  Cirrhaean War.--Epimenides.--Political State of Athens.--Character of Solon.--His Legislation.--General View of the Athenian Constitution. great authority of Homer in that age, and how largely the services laws of the Athenian are said by Plutarch to have been suggested by to be submitted to the assembly of the people--the great popular time of Solon, this assembly was by no means of the importance to liberties of Athens and the institutions of Solon. The Departure of Solon from Athens.--The Rise of Pisistratus.--Return According to Plutarch, he continued at Athens, Pisistratus "By these means," says Herodotus, "Pisistratus mastered Athens, and Pisistratus was necessary to establish the institutions of Solon. most powerful of the Athenians was a noble named Miltiades, son of in the time of his great-grandson Alyattes, a war of twelve years with From the time that the Athenians had assisted the forces of Miletus of the Athenians, one cannot but suppose, that if Solon had really


id: 6155
title: Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Book V
author: Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron
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  withdrawn, than an Athenian force, headed by Pericles, who is said to Causes of the Power of Pericles.--Judicial Courts of the dependant Allies transferred to Athens.--Sketch of the Athenian Revenues.-ancient or modern times, on the extortions of the Athenians, and the empire of Athens a thousand tributary cities: the number is doubtless Before the Persian war, and even scarcely before the time of Cimon, peculiar to the Athenians of all the Grecian states was the humane and of the Athenian Comedy to the Time of Aristophanes. Athenian people, ordered them to refer to Athens the decision of the three-and-sixty years did Sophocles continue to exhibit; twenty times [71] Thus the command of the Athenian forces was at one time likely seems to state the whole number in each Athenian vessel to be fourteen [216] It was about five years after the death of Cimon that Pericles was the age of Sophocles, Phidias, and Pericles.


id: 6153
title: Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Book III
author: Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron
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  Artemisium.--The Greeks retreat.--The Persians invade and important, when the Athenians lighted the flames of the Persian navy, fitted equally to resist the Persian and to open a new dominion Greece, brought to the Persian warfare the new arm of a numerous and Xerxes Arrives at Sardis.--Despatches Envoys to the Greek States, the subjugation of Greece, and the command of the Persian forces. Artemisium.--The Greeks retreat.--The Persians invade Delphi, and are When the Persians learned that the Greeks had abandoned their station, assisting the Athenians and Greece generally, by marching towards Possessed of Athens, the Persian king held also his council of allied force commanded by the Spartans, some fighting with great lands, the Greeks returned to Salamis and divided the Persian spoils. While the Greeks were thus occupied, the Persian army had retreated Proposals.--Athenians retreat to Salamis.--Mardonius occupies Athens. The answer of the Athenians to both Spartan and Persian, the


id: 6154
title: Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Book IV
author: Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron
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  Remarks on the Effects of War.--State of Athens.--Interference of the crafty Athenian despatched a secret messenger to Athens, urging states united to Athens by a vast maritime power, severing themselves especially desirous to exchange the Spartan for the Athenian command. suddenly raised Athens, so secondary a state before the Persian war, time have placed Greece at the head of nations, Athens at the head of Acquittal of Cimon.--The Athenians assist the Spartans at Ithome.-Spartan faction in Athens stood Cimon. Athenian aristocracy, the Spartan government maintained a considerable Sparta consequently seemed to the Athenian people, nor without cause, pretext" [186] that that leader of the Spartan party in Athens was make war upon Athens rendered the Theban power auxiliary to Sparta: state as a fact, that the popular party in Athens seems to have been of an Athenian general--the democracies planted by Athens served to Athenian_ who taught philosophy at Athens (B.


id: 7142
title: The History of the Peloponnesian War
author: Thucydides
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  had observed twenty Athenian ships sailing up, which had been sent out war with Corinth, and the Athenian vessels left the island. Athenians, who took seventy of the enemy''s ships, and landed in the About this time the Athenians began to build the long walls to the sea, Lacedaemonian and the Athenian, the most famous men of their time in The war between the Athenians and Peloponnesians and the allies on About the same time the Athenians sent thirty ships to cruise round roadstead, which the Athenian ship found time to sail round, and struck The same summer the Athenians sent thirty ships round Peloponnese under turned to the sea, which was not far off, and seeing the Athenian ships 1. The Lacedaemonians shall be allies of the Athenians for fifty years. order that the Athenians might be a long time in manning their ships,


id: 6841
title: Mosaics of Grecian History
author: Wilson, Robert Pierpont
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  Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts the gods and men, Pro-me''theus, [Footnote: In most Greek proper circumstances, he called Athens, in honor of the Grecian goddess THE POLITICAL LIFE OF THE GREEKS, AS REPRESENTED IN THEIR GREAT EPICS. but in the fifth year of the war a great battle was fought, and, peopled by Greeks; and so numerous and powerful did the Grecian poets." [Footnote: "History of Greek Literature," vol. Athens and the islands of the Ægean Sea. The Athenians, regarding make Athens great and powerful that he himself might rise to Grecian states, Athens must become a great maritime power. The same poet pays the following tribute to the Greeks who fell ''Men of Athens, I honor and love you; but I shall obey God rather Athens, and the Athenians; founding of the city; early history of the throne of Athens, and led the Athenians in the Trojan war.


id: 6200
title: The Greek View of Life
author: Dickinson, G. Lowes (Goldsworthy Lowes)
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  some general idea of the Greek view of life, will not be regarded as "The Greek View of Life," no doubt, is a question-begging title, but I The Greek Conception of the Relation of Man to the Gods. The Greek Conception of the Relation of Man to the Gods. saying that the Greek view of the relation of man to the gods was mind, if we would form a clear conception of the Greek view of life. at the beginning, that the Greek conception of the relation of man to relation of man to the gods was mechanical and external in the Greek We have now arrived at a general idea of the nature of the Greek state, the actual facts; and the old Greek conception, "the slave by nature", Greek conception of the state, of which the "Republic" of Plato is an the general Greek view of the dependence of woman on man is well


id: 12916
title: The Secret History of the Court of Justinian
author: Procopius
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  Justinian and Theodora, Belisarius and Libanus and John of Edessa--Forged wills--Theodora and Justinian evil that, if the Romans set up any other emperor in Byzantium, they would jealousy of Justinian and Theodora, who considered it too great, and Immediately after the Empress''s death, Antonina came to Byzantium. Justinian and Theodora, and of the manner in which they rent the Roman Roman Empire; for, as both of them had for a long time been members of So Justinian and Theodora ascended the Imperial throne three days disease, after a reign of nine years, and Justinian and Theodora robbed of their wealth by Justinian and Theodora in the manner which I John, having performed the last offices for his dead father, some time this reason Justinian and Theodora immediately deprived Theodotus of Justinian, the elections never took place at the proper time; the time of the accession of Justinian and Theodora, the magistrates


id: 14972
title: Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series
author: Symonds, John Addington
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  fleshy leaves set like a cushion on cold ledges and dark places of rushes beneath; and the snow-peaks, whom we love like friends, abide senses of light, colour, form, and air, and motion, and rare tinkling I have been dreaming of far-away old German towns, with gabled houses church of great beauty, with tall Lombard bell-tower, pierced with Women in San Remo work all day, but men and boys play for the great sea rises ever so far into the sky, until the white sails hang clouds which crown its mountains shine all day, and glitter like an artist from the man who may have had like thoughts and feelings. The human form, the world around us, the works of man''s hands, music presents man''s spirit to itself through form. of San Vio come and go the whole day long--men in blue shirts with


id: 18845
title: Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 7 Italy, Sicily, and Greece (Part One)
author: nan
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  at least), churches, and a great temple all in the air, and beautiful of the walls were also covered with life-like paintings, so that the beautiful buildings of the modern city, is unhappily placed. On reaching the end of a long line of narrow streets, white walls, and great churches which come rolling past me like a sea, it is a small Rome--quarries in the old time, but afterward the hiding-places of the Old Palace; it is a great mass of stone, without columns, without laid in July of that year, with all the greatness of Florence looking the great dome he was to build--and so built it, all opposition Many of the fine old palaces of Florence, you know, are built in a Campanile, high above palace roofs, arcades and church domes, its bells The Ducal Palace, which was the great work of Venice, was built


id: 19061
title: Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 8 Italy, Sicily, and Greece, Part Two
author: nan
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  Senate House, round about any large building, little shops stick close, city; here, before the tombs of the great, people might well reflect wall is some forty feet high, built of stone from the Pisan hills, Stand at the bottom of the great market-place of Pompeii, and look up this watercourse were adorned with old houses and long walls, and trees, to the great Northern wall, we have a wonderful relic of those times; city that can never be ruined--for instance, the great stone quarries, that from the city below they look like the remains of two different There are very old and very beautiful little churches in Athens, remains of the ancient city are stones; for the massive square tower, The great gate of the city, a portion of the wall, and four of the projection of huge stones, looking like a square tower, on its right


id: 14634
title: Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series
author: Symonds, John Addington
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  the great love with which he burns for all learned men, brought and a grey-green mist of rising crops and new-fledged oak-trees lies like of the court had spent a summer night in long debate on love, rising is enough to state that, earliest of all Italian cities, Milan passed Florence, like all Italian cities, owed her independence to the duel larger cities, like Milan and Florence, began to make war upon the in mind, if we seek to understand how it was that a city like Florence right, and exercised the power of life and death within the city. years the Medici loved to remember this return of Cosimo. like The Beauty of Women, The Beauty of Men, Falling in Love, The same thought of love growing like a flower receives another turn I''d make thee still more lovely than thou art: Thy love too great


id: 1170
title: Anabasis
author: Xenophon
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  Pigres to the generals of the Hellenes, with orders to present arms At Tarsus Cyrus and his army halted for twenty days; the soldiers 1 halted five days, and here Cyrus sent for the generals of the At this point Cyrus turned to those who were present and said: "Such king would arrive the following day with his army to offer battle. brought to Cyrus by deserters who came in from the king''s army before and return the way he came, but reaching the camp of the Hellenes, 8 king and his men; so that the greater number of the Hellenes went great king having won the victory and slain Cyrus, bids the Hellenes march in safety for the rest of that day, reached the river Tigris. But on the following day Xenophon took the headman and set off to now reached such a pass that the men actually came to Xenophon''s tent


id: 1174
title: Hellenica
author: Xenophon
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  length the Athenians, having captured thirty of the enemy''s vessels These were troop-ships rather than swift-sailing men-of-war. Lacedaemonian governor, Hippocrates, let his troops out of the city and ships of war and a land force of one hundred and twenty thousand men, captured men-of-war, a Corinthian and an Andrian vessel, when every man Lacedaemonians here present, while you were at war with the Athenians right round the city of Corinth with a single Lacedaemonian division and he commanded the troops to order arms, and having rested them a little came the word of command, "Advance!" and the fifteen-years-service men "Men of Lacedaemon and of the allied states," he said, "are you aware of night had fled to the city and brought news to the men of Athens that a found the citizens in a state of party feud, the men of Lacedaemonian allies, and at the head of the city troops himself marched back to


id: 32318
title: Greek Women
author: Carroll, Mitchell
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  domestic life; Aphrodite, goddess of love and beauty and the problems of life, which were altogether foreign to men and women in the women like Agamemnon and Helen must once have lived and loved and love of home and happy married life: "And may the gods grant thee all relations of men and women in prehistoric times, and of the character upon love for women; and a clear idea of the importance of woman in the heart of Agamemnon, king of men, who had received the beautiful captive passionate devotion of many Greek men to beautiful youths; but there is occasions in Athenian life when men and women dined together. "''Beauty wins not love for woman from the yokemate of her life: qualities in both men and women." Yet, while asserting woman''s courts, women as well as men, in spite of their Greek culture, show the


id: 46508
title: Our Little Grecian Cousin
author: Nixon-Roulet, Mary F.
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  little old woman, taking such good care of her aunt''s babies that that "It''s time you went to sleep again, Baby," said Zoe, her foot on the "I shall not marry a man who looks like that," said Zoe to Marco, who great wonder and delight, Zoe was to be bridesmaid, for Maria had said the little girls said you had gone to the mountain to find Georgios. "To give to Aunt Anna, of course," said Zoe, surprised in her turn. And Zoe said in her soft little voice, "Oh, Marco." "I am not too happy," said Zoe, "but it would be hard to leave Marco. "It is no wonder people like him," said Zoe. "Now, Zoe and Petro, it is your time to help," she said laughing. since you went away!" cried Zoe, while Petro said, I have had a beautiful time," said Zoe.


id: 37947
title: Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia, and Poland, Vol. 2 (of 2)
author: Stephens, John L.
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  "savage from the remotest time." "All the way," says an old traveller, way of getting over the ground than posting in Russia with a man of high an hour saw at a great distance the venerable city of Chioff, the North, the sacred and holy city of the Russians; and, long before all our principal men, from the time of Washington to the present day; the cross; and in a city like Chioff, where every turn presents some new We wandered a long time in this extraordinary burial-place, everywhere an old and favourite stopping-place with the Russian seigneurs when they buildings of the great Russian princes, seigneurs, and merchants, among On the last day of my stay in Moscow a great crowd drew me to the door long-sleeping beauties, when the great doors at one end were thrown the great scenes of which this little city had in his own day been the


id: 37889
title: Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia, and Poland, Vol. 1 (of 2)
author: Stephens, John L.
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  The house was surrounded by a high stone wall, a large gate idea of an ancient Greek city, being situated in a commanding position the ruined city stands where stood Corinth of old, but it has fallen dwellings; and high above the ruined city, now as in the days when the longed for the good old days when, at the head of his hanged companions, travel in Greece; the country is mountainous, and the road or narrow eminence, Athens itself, like the other cities in Greece, presenting a second day in Athens Mr. Hill was at the door of my hotel to attend us. The Greeks went away from the coffee-house, the adjacent country; and the city contained long ranges of houses and a sensation in the ancient city of the Danai; but man little knows for travelling friend, with a young soldier who spoke a little French, came


