| 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] |
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
GREEK.
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| A Greek Shepherd, Olympia | [Frontispiece.] |
| Parting of Hector and Andromache | [15] |
| Œdipus and Antigone | [42] |
| Grecian Ladies at Home | [87] |
| The Acropolis of Athens | [98] |
| Ruins of the Parthenon | [130] |
| The Place of Assembly of the Athenians | [145] |
| The Victors at Salamis | [160] |
| Ancient Entrance To the Stadium, Athens | [181] |
| A Reunion at the House of Aspasia | [190] |
| Piræus, the Port of Athens | [213] |
| Prison of Socrates, Athens | [229] |
| Gate of the Agora, or Oil Market, Athens | [255] |
| Bed of the River Kladeos | [289] |
| The Death of Alexander the Great | [300] |
| The Modern Olympic Games in the Stadium | [316] |
| The Theatre of Bacchus, Athens | [322] |
| Remains of the Temple of Minerva, Corinth | [345] |
| The Ruins of Palmyra | [358] |
| Along the Coast of Greece | [362] |
HOW TROY WAS TAKEN.
The far-famed Helen, wife of King Menelaus of Sparta, was the most beautiful woman in the world. And from her beauty and faithlessness came the most celebrated of ancient wars, with death and disaster to numbers of famous heroes and the final ruin of the ancient city of Troy. The story of these striking events has been told only in poetry. We propose to tell it again in sober prose.