The Story of Greece: Told to Boys and Girls

by Mary Macgregor

INDEX

• Achæans, the, [73].
• Achilles, and Briseis the Fair-cheeked, [32];
• fatal quarrel with Agamemnon, [34];
• the horses of, [44]; Hector slain by, [48] et seq.;
• death of, [52].
• Acrisius, king of Argos, [18];
• killed by Perseus, [29].
• Acropolis at Athens, the, [97].
• Admetus, king, [186].
• Ægis of Athens, the, [23], [30].
• Ægospotami, disaster at, [261].
• Æolians, the, [73].
• Æschines, lawsuit against Demosthenes, [349].
• Æschylus, [172], [200].
• Agamemnon, king, [33], [34].
• Agesilaus, king of Sparta, [278], [279].
• Alcibiades, [232–236];
• friendship with Socrates, [236], [238], [240], [243];
• expedition to conquer Sicily, [244–248];
• flight to Sparta, [247–248];
• betrayal of Athenians to the Spartans, [248];
• return to Athens, [255];
• Antiochus’ disobedience, [258];
• death of, [263].
• Alexander the Great, at battle of Chæronea, [307];
• and his horse Bucephalus, [309];
• conquests in Greece, [312] et seq.;
• and Diogenes, [312];
• conquest of Persia, [314], [315] et seq.;
• cutting of the Gordian knot, [318];
• illness of, [319];
• defeat of Darius at Issus, [322];
• treatment of Darius and his wife and family, [323], [327];
• siege of Tyre by, [325];
• defeat of Darius at Gaugamela, [328];
• burning of Persepolis by, [331];
• pursuit of Darius, [334];
• treatment of Philotas, [335];
• slays his foster-brother, [336];
• conquests in India, [338];
• victory over King Porus, [338];
• wounded at siege of the citadel of Malli, [342];
• east and west united by, [345];
• death of, [345].
• Alexander, king of Thessaly, Pelopidas’ expedition against, [282].
• Amphictyonic Council, the, [94].
• Amphipolis, surrender of, [228].
• Andromache and Hector, [41], [50], [51], [52].
• Andromeda and the sea-monster, [26].
• Antinous, [67].
• Antiochus, [258].
• Antipater, [350].
• Aphrodite, [4], [40].
• Apollo, [4], [11], [35], [46], [76], [79], [95];
• and Hyacinthus, [16].
• Arachne, story of, [13].
• Archias, [273], [274], [275];
• and Demosthenes, [350].
• Archidamus, invasion of Attica by, [205];
• siege of Plataea under, [210–213].
• Arginusæ, battle of, [259].
• Argos, war with Sparta, [232].
• Argus, the hound, [64].
• Aristagoras, [122], [123], [124], [126].
• Aristides, [138], [140–144], [148], [168], [170], [179], [180], [185], [188].
• Aristodemus, [89].
• Aristogiton, [113].
• Aristomenes and the fox, [91].
• Aristophanes, [200], [234].
• Aristotle, [311].
• Artaphernes, [122], [123], [127], [129], [130].
• Artaxerxes, [186], [193];
• march of Cyrus against, [265];
• Spartan expedition against, [269].
• Artemisium, battle of, [161].
• Athene, [4], [11], [12], [13], [22], [23], [30], [36], [41], [62], [65], [97], [196], [198].
• Athenian Empire, foundation of, [178].
• Athenians, the, taking of Salamis by, [106];
• alliance with Ionians against Darius, [127];
• defeat of Persian army at Marathon, [134];
• victory in bay of Pylos over the Spartans, [220];
• surrender of Spartans at Sphacteria to, [221];
• invasion of Bœotia by, [225];
• defeat at Syracuse, [249], [252–254];
• defeat by Spartans under Lysander, [259].
• Athens, city of, [12], [196–199];
• war with Dorians, [97];
• oligarchic government of, [98];
• three parties of, [100];
• Persian attack on, [137];
• sea-power of, [140], [184], [194];
• war with Sparta, [195];
• great men of, [201];
• jealousy of Sparta causing Peloponnesian war, [202] et seq.;
• revolt of Mytilene against, [214];
• second Peloponnesian war, [233];
• surrender to the Spartans, [261–263].
• Atlas, [26].
• Attica, Spartan invasion of, [205].
• Babylon, taken by Alexander the Great, [331].
• Bessus, [334], [335].
• Bœotia, invasion of, [225].
• Bœotian League, the, [203].
• Bow of Odysseus, the, [67].
• Brasidas the Spartan, [219], [225], [226–231].
• Bridge of Boats, Darius’, [118].
• Briseis the Fair-cheeked, [32].
• Bucephalus, [309], [329], [340].
• Callistratus, [301].
• Carthaginians, the, expedition against Syracuse, [286], [288], [289];
• defeated by Timoleon at Crimisus, [296].
• Cassiopeia, [27].
• Cecrops, [11].
• Chæronea, battle of, [307].
• Charilaus, [77], [80].
• Charon, [273], [274], [275], [276].
• Cimon, [179], [189–193].
• Clearchus, [264], [265], [267].
• Cleisthenes, [114], [115–116].
• Cleombrotus, [279], [280].
• Cleomenes and Aristagoras, [126].
• Cleon, [208], [215], [216], [221], [222–224], [228–231].
• Clitus, [336].
• Codrus, the last king of Athens, [97].
• Conon, [259], [262].
• Conspiracy of the Seven Thebans, [273].
• Corinth, the two brothers of, [286].
• Crimisus, battle of, [296].
• Croesus, king of Lydia, [103], [104], [105].
• Cyclopes, the, [56].
• Cylon, [100].
• Cynoscephalæ, battle of, [284].
• Cyrus, king of Persia, and Croesus, [105].
• —— march against king Artaxerxes, [264–268].
• Damocles, [314].
• Danae, story of, [18].
• Darius, king of Persia, war against Greece, [118];
• Histiaeus rewarded by, [121];
• Ionian rebellion against, [124];
• expedition against Athens, [131];
• defeat at Marathon, [134];
• death of, [139].
• —— king of Persia, wars with Alexander the Great, [315], [319];
• defeat near the pass of Issus, [321];
• defeat at battle of Gaugamela, [328];
• retreat and death, [334].
• Delian League, the, [178].
• Delium, defeat of Athenians at, [226].
• Demeter, story of, [4], [6].
• Demosthenes, [218], [219], [222], [223], [250], [251], [252–254], [307], [308], [311], [313], [349].
• Diodotus, [216].
• Diogenes, [312].
• Dionysius of Syracuse, [286], [289].
• Dorians, the, [73], [76].
• Draco, code of laws of, [101].
• Dryads, the, [1].
• Elpinice and Pericles, [195].
• Epaminondas, [93], [269], [271–272], [277], [280–285], [306].
• Ephialtes the treacherous Greek, [157], [159].
• Ephialtes the statesman, [190], [191].
• Epirus, [72].
• Epitades, [219], [221], [223].
• Erechtheum, the, [197].
• Eros, [4].
• Eucles, [228].
• Euaeus the swineherd, [64], [66], [67].
• Euripides, [200], [201], [235].
• Europa, [15].
• Eurybiades, [153], [161], [166], [167].
• Eurymedon, [218], [219], [220], [221], [250], [251].
• Gaugamela, battle of, [328].
• Gordian knot, the, [318].
• Gorgo, [127], [160].
• Gorgons, the, [22].
• Grææ, the, [23].
• Granicus, battle of, [315].
• Greece, [72].
• Gylippus, [248], [249], [250], [252], [254].
• Harmodius, [113].
• Hecate, [8].
• Hector, [39], [41], [46], [48], [51], [52].
• Hecuba, [41], [50], [51].
• Helen of Troy, [33], [53].
• Hellespont, the scourging of the, [148].
• Helots, the, [85], [190].
• Hephæstion, [342], [345], [347].
• Hephæstis, [11].
• Hera, [3].
• Hermes, [4], [23], [245].
• Herodotus, [201].
• Hipparchus, [113].
• Hippias, [113], [132].
• Histiaeus, [120], [121], [123], [129].
• Homer, [32], [78].
• Hyacinthus, story of, [16].
• Icetes, [286], [289], [293].
• Ictinus, [196], [201].
• Iliad, The, [32].
• Ionians, the, [73], [118].
• —— revolt of, [123–130].
• Ismenias, [270].
• Lacedæmonians, the, [76].
• Lamachus, [245], [247], [249].
• Leonidas, king of Sparta, [153], [154], [155–158].
• Leontiades, [270], [276].
• Leuctra, battle of, [277–280].
• Lotus-eaters, the, [55].
• Lycurgus the lawgiver, [76], [78], [79], [80], [82], [87], [88].
• Lysander, [258], [261], [263].
• Mago, [294].
• Mantinea, battle of, [233].
• Marathon, battle of, [132], [134], [136].
• Mardonius, [131], [145], [172], [175], [176].
• Masistius, [174].
• Medusa, [21], [22].
• Menelaus, king, [33], [39], [53].
• Megabetes, [123], [124].
• Messenia, city of, [282].
• Messenian war, the first, [89].
• —— the second, [90].
• Miltiades, [120], [133], [135], [136], [137], [138], [139].
• Mindarus, [256], [257].
• Mycale, battle of, [177].
• Mytilene, revolt against Athens, [214].
• Naiads, the, [1].
• Nicias, [221], [222], [231], [232], [234], [245], [251], [252], [254].
• —— peace of, [231], [232].
• Odeon of Athens, the, [197], [198].
• Odysseus, story of, [52], [54] et seq.
• Odyssey, The, [32].
• Olympian Games, the, [94].
• Olympus, Mount, [2].
• Oracles, the Grecian, [18].
• Orchomenus, battle of, [278].
• Ostracism, law of, [116].
• Paches, [214], [215].
• Pan, [4], [5].
• Paris, [33], [39], [44], [52].
• Parmenio, [320], [327], [328], [330], [335].
• Parthenon, the, [196], [197].
• Patroclus, [34], [45–47], [48].
• Pausanias, [174], [175], [177], [179–181], [185], [210].
• Pelopidas, [271], [273], [277], [279], [282], [284], [306].
• Peloponnesian war, the first, [202–231].
• —— the second, [233–263].
• Penelope, story of, [61], [66], [67–71].
• Perdiccas, [314].
• Pericles, [190], [194–195], [198], [202], [205], [207], [215], [233].
• Persephone, story of, [6].
• Persepolis, burning of, [331].
• Perseus, story of, [19].
• Persia, wars with Greece, [118–139], [145–177];
• conquest by Alexander the Great, [314], [315].
• Pheidias, [3], [95], [196], [198], [199], [201], [208].
• Philip, king of Macedonia, [305], [306–308], [310], [311].
• Philip, the physician of Alexander, [319], [320].
• Philippus, [273].
• Philomelus, [306], [307].
• Phocians, the, [306].
• Phocion, [308], [314].
• Phœbidas, [270].
• Phyllidas, [273], [274].
• Pirates, the Grecian, [189].
• Pisistratus, [99], [107], [109–112].
• Polydectes, king, [20], [21], [26], [30].
• Polyphemus, the giant, [54].
• Porus and his elephant, [338].
• Poseidon, [3], [12], [15].
• Potidæa, siege of, [207], [208].
• Plague in Athens, [207], [209].
• Plataea, battle of, [172]; siege of, [210–213].
• Plato, [240].
• Plutarch, [209], [235], [257], [263], [346].
• Pluto, [4], [6].
• Priam, king of Troy, [33], [39], [50], [51].
• Propylæa, the, [197].
• Protagoras, [201].
• Pylos, sea-fight of, [216].
• Rome, rise of, [351].
• Sacred Band of Thebans, [277], [278], [307], [308].
• Sacred war, the, [306].
• Salamis, siege of, [106].
• —— battle of, [169–172].
• Samos, revolt against Athens, [194].
• Sardis, destruction of, [126].
• Satyrus and Demosthenes, [304].
• Scythians, Darius’ war against, [118], [120].
• Sicily, Alcibiades’ expedition against, [244];
• war with Carthaginians and Dionysius of Syracuse, [286];
• freed by Timoleon, [299].
• Socrates, [201], [260];
• friendship with Alcibiades, [236], [240–243].
• Solon the lawgiver, [99], [102], [106], [110], [111].
• Sophists, the, [201].
• Sophocles, [200].
• Sparta, [33], [76];
• war with Messenians, [89];
• war against Persia, [154], [156–160];
• wars with Athens, [195] et seq., [232], [333];
• destruction of Athenian army at Syracuse, [249–254];
• victory over Antiochus under Lysander, [259];
• surrender of Athens to, [261–263];
• expedition against Thebes, [270], [273] et seq.
• Spartans, the, training of, [82].
• Sphacteria, blockade of, [219], [221].
• Syracuse, siege of, [249];
• Corinthian expedition under Timoleon to, [286], [289] et seq.
• Telemachus, [61], [62], [65], [66], [67], [69], [70].
• Ten Thousand, the march of, [264–267].
• Thebes, war with Plataea, [202], [211], [213];
• conspiracy to obtain freedom from Sparta, [273];
• rise of, [277];
• Sacred War against Phocians, [306].
• Themistocles, rivalry with Aristides, [137], [140–144];
• war against Xerxes, [148];
• at pass of Thermopylae, [153];
• at battle of Artemisium, [161];
• tactics to defeat Persian fleet at Salamis, [163–167];
• Spartans deceived by, [182];
• ostracised, [185];
• death of, [187], [188].
• Thermopylae, battle of, [153], [156–160].
• Theseus, king, [189].
• Thetis, [34], [39], [48], [49], [51], [52].
• Thrace, city of, [121], [122].
• Thucydides, [192], [198], [201], [206], [228], [229], [252], [254].
• Timoleon, [286], [288], [293], [296], [298].
• Timophanes, [286].
• Tissaphernes, [254], [258], [264], [266].
• Trojan War, the, [32].
• Troy, city of, [32], [52].
• Tyrants, Grecian, [98].
• Tyre, siege by Alexander, [325].
• Tyrtaeus, [91], [93].
• Xenophon, [264], [266], [267], [268].
• Xerxes, king of Persia, [139];
• his dream, [145];
• invasion of Greece by, [148];
• scourging of Hellespont by, [148];
• Athens plundered by, [164];
• defeat of his fleet at Salamis, [169].
• Zephyrus, [17].
• Zeus, [3], [8], [9], [11], [23], [38], [39], [47], [51], [95], [197].

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