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The Story of the Greeks

by

Helene Guerber

Original Copyright 1896

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Table of Contents

Front Matter

Early Inhabitants of Greece

The Deluge of Ogyges

Founding of Important Cities

Story of Deucalion

Daedalus and Icarus

The Adventures of Jason

Theseus Visits the Labyrinth

The Terrible Prophecy

The Sphinx's Riddle

Death of Oedipus

The Brothers' Quarrel

The Taking of Thebes

The Childhood of Paris

Muster of the Troops

Sacrifice of Iphigenia

The Wrath of Achilles

Death of Hector and Achilles

The Burning of Troy

Heroic Death of Codrus

The Blind Poet

The Rise of Sparta

The Spartan Training

The Brave Spartan Boy

Public Tables in Sparta

Laws of Lycurgus

The Messenian War

The Music of Tyrtaeus

Aristomenes' Escape

The Olympic Games

Milo of Croton

The Jealous Athlete

The Girls' Games

The Bloody Laws of Draco

The Laws of Solon

The First Plays

The Tyrant Pisistratus

The Tyrant's Insult

Death of the Conspirators

Hippias Driven out of Athens

The Great King

Hippias Visits Darius

Destruction of the Persian Host

Advance of the Second Host

The Battle of Marathon

Miltiades' Disgrace

Aristides the Just

Two Noble Spartan Youths

The Great Army

Preparations for Defense

Leonidas at Thermopylae

Death of Leonidas

The Burning of Athens

Battles of Salamis and Plataea

The Rebuilding of Athens

Death of Pausanias

Cimon Improves Athens

The Earthquake

The Age of Pericles

Teachings of Anaxagoras

Peloponnesian War Begins

Death of Pericles

The Philosopher Socrates

Socrates' Favorite Pupil

Youth of Alcibiades

Greek Colonies in Italy

Alcibiades in Disgrace

Death of Alcibiades

Overthrow of Thirty Tyrants

Accusation of Socrates

Death of Socrates

The Defeat of Cyrus

Retreat of the Ten Thousand

Agesilaus in Asia

A Strange Interview

The Peace of Antalcidas

The Theban Friends

Thebes Free Once More

The Battle of Leuctra

Death of Pelopidas

The Battle of Mantinea

The Tyrant of Syracuse

Damon and Pythias

The Sword of Damocles

Dion and Dionysius

Civil War in Syracuse

Death of Dion

Philip of Macedon

Philip Begins His Conquests

The Orator Demosthenes

Philip Masters Greece

Birth of Alexander

The Steed Bucephalus

Alexander as King

Alexander and Diogenes

Alexander's Beginning

The Gordian Knot

Alexander's Royal Captives

Alexander at Jerusalem

The African Desert

Death of Darius

Defeat of Porus

Return to Babylon

Death of Alexander

Division of the Realm

Death of Demosthenes

Last of the Athenians

The Colossus of Rhodes

The Battle of Ipsus

Demetrius and the Athenians

The Achaean League

Division in Sparta

Death of Agis

War of the Two Leagues

The Last of the Greeks

Greece a Roman Province

Early Inhabitants of Greece

Although Greece (or Hellas) 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 Mediterranean 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.