Historical Tales
The Romance of Reality
By
CHARLES MORRIS
Author of "Half-Hours with the Best American Authors," "Tales from the Dramatists," etc.
IN FIFTEEN VOLUMES
Volume X
Greek
J.B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY
PHILADELPHIA AND LONDON
Copyright, 1896, by J.B. Lippincott Company.
Copyright, 1904, by J.B. Lippincott Company.
Copyright, 1908, by J.B. Lippincott Company.
CONTENTS.
| PAGE | |
| How Troy Was Taken | [7] |
| The Voyage of the Argonauts | [28] |
| Theseus and Ariadne | [33] |
| The Seven Against Thebes | [41] |
| Lycurgus and the Spartan Laws | [50] |
| Aristomenes, the Hero of Messenia | [60] |
| Solon, the Law-Giver of Athens | [67] |
| The Fortune of Crœsus | [77] |
| The Suitors of Agaristé | [86] |
| The Tyrants of Corinth | [93] |
| The Ring of Polycrates | [100] |
| The Adventures of Democedes | [109] |
| Darius and the Scythians | [117] |
| The Athenians at Marathon | [126] |
| Xerxes and His Army | [135] |
| How the Spartans Died at Thermopylæ | [144] |
| The Wooden Walls of Athens | [154] |
| Platæa's Famous Day | [165] |
| Four Famous Men of Athens | [174] |
| How Athens Rose From its Ashes | [186] |
| The Plague at Athens | [194] |
| The Envoys of Life and Death | [200] |
| The Defence of Platæa | [205] |
| How the Long Walls Went Down | [213] |
| Socrates and Alcibiades | [221] |
| The Retreat of the Ten Thousand | [231] |
| The Rescue of Thebes | [245] |
| The Humiliation of Sparta | [259] |
| Timoleon, the Favorite of Fortune | [271] |
| The Sacred War | [288] |
| Alexander the Great and Darius | [296] |
| The World's Greatest Orator | [305] |
| The Olympic Games | [315] |
| Pyrrhus and the Romans | [324] |
| Philopœmen and the Fall of Sparta | [334] |
| The Death-Struggle of Greece | [345] |
| Zenobia and Longinus | [351] |
| The Literary Glory of Greece | [360] |