THE PERSIAN WARS.

  1. The Ionic Revolt.
  2. The First Persian War.
  3. The Battle of Marathon.
    Legends of the Battle.—Hemans: Blackie.
    The Death of Milti'ades: his Character.—GROTE: GILLIES.
    Aristi'des and Themis'tocles:—Thomson: PLUTARCH: THIRLWALL.
  4. The Second Persian Invasion.
  5. Xerxes at Aby'dos.—HEROD'OTUS.
    Bridging of the Hellespont.—Juvenal: Milton.
    The Battle of Thermop'ylæ.
    1. Invincibility of the Spartans.—Haygarth.
    2. Description of the Contest.—Haygarth.
    3. Epitaphs on those who fell.—Simon'ides.
    4. The Tomb of Leon'idas.—Anon.
    5. Eulogy on the Fallen.—Byron
    6. Xerxes Views the Conflict.—Byron.
    7. Flight of Xerxes.—Juvenal: Alamanni.
    8. Celebrated Description of the Battle.—MITFORD: Æschylus.
    9. Another Account.—Blackie.
    10. Description of the Battle.—BULWER.
    11. Importance of the Victory.—Southey: BULWER.
    12. Victory at Myc'a-le.—BULWER.
    13. "The Wasps."—Aristophanes.
  6. Naval Conflict at Artemis'ium.—PLUTARCH: Pindar.
    The Abandonment of Athens.
    The Battle of Salamis.
  7. The Battle of Platæ'a.

[CHAPTER X.]

THE RISE AND GROWTH OF THE ATHENIAN EMPIRE.

  1. The Disgrace and Death of Themistocles.
  2. Tributes to his Memory.—Plato: Geminus: THIRLWALL.
  3. The Rise and Fall of Cimon.
  4. Character of Cimon—Thomson.
    Battle of Eurym'edon.—Simonides.
    Earthquake at Sparta, and Revolt of the Helots.—BULWER: ALISON.
  5. The Accession of Pericles to Power.
  6. Changes in the Athenian Constitution.—BULWER.
    Tribute to Pericles.—Croly.
    Picture of Athens in Peace.—Haygarth.

[CHAPTER XI.]

THE PELOPONNESIAN WARS, AND THE FALL OF ATHENS.

  1. Speech of Pericles for War.—THUCYD'IDES.
  2. The First Peloponnesian War.
  3. Funeral Oration of Pericles.—THUCYDIDES.
    Comments on the Oration.—CURTIUS.
    The Plague at Athens.—Lucretius.
    Death of Pericles.—Croly: THIRLWALL: BULWER.
    Character of Pericles.—MITFORD.
  4. The Athenian Demagogues.
  5. Cleon, the Demagogue.—GILLIES: ARISTOPH'ANES.
    The Peace of Ni'cias.
  6. The Sicilian Expedition.
  7. Treatment of the Athenian Prisoners.—Byron.
  8. The Second Peloponnesian War.
  9. Humiliation of Athens.
    Barbarities of the Contest.—MAHAFFY.