CHAP. PAGE
I.WONDERLAND[1]
II.THE GREAT GOD PAN[3]
III.THE SIX POMEGRANATE SEEDS[6]
IV.THE BIRTH OF ATHENE[11]
V.THE TWO WEAVERS[13]
VI.THE PURPLE FLOWERS[16]
VII.DANAE AND HER LITTLE SON[18]
VIII.THE QUEST OF PERSEUS[22]
IX.ANDROMEDA AND THE SEA-MONSTER[26]
X.ACRISIUS IS KILLED BY PERSEUS[29]
XI.ACHILLES AND BRISEIS THE FAIRCHEEKED[32]
XII.MENELAUS AND PARIS DO BATTLE[38]
XIII.HECTOR AND ANDROMACHE[41]
XIV.THE HORSES OF ACHILLES[44]
XV.THE DEATH OF HECTOR[48]
XVI.POLYPHEMUS THE GIANT[54]
XVII.ODYSSEUS ESCAPES FROM THE CAVE[58]
XVIII.ODYSSEUS RETURNS TO ITHACA[61]
XIX.ARGUS THE HOUND DIES[64]
XX.THE BOW OF ODYSSEUS[67]
XXI.THE LAND OF HELLAS[72]
XXII.LYCURGUS AND HIS LITTLE NEPHEW[76]
XXIII.LYCURGUS RETURNS TO SPARTA[79]
XXIV.THE TRAINING OF THE SPARTANS[82]
XXV.THE HELOTS[85]
XXVI.ARISTOMENES AND THE FOX[89]
XXVII.THE OLYMPIAN GAMES[94]
XXVIII.THE LAST KING OF ATHENS[97]
XXIX.CYLON FAILS TO MAKE HIMSELF TYRANT[100]
XXX.SOLON FREES THE SLAVES[102]
XXXI.THE ATHENIANS TAKE SALAMIS[106]
XXXII.PISISTRATUS BECOMES TYRANT[109]
XXXIII.HARMODIUS AND ARISTOGITON[113]
XXXIV.THE LAW OF OSTRACISM[116]
XXXV.THE BRIDGE OF BOATS[118]
XXXVI.DARIUS REWARDS HISTIAEUS[121]
XXXVII.HISTIAEUS SHAVES THE HEAD OF HIS SLAVE[123]
XXXVIII.SARDIS IS DESTROYED[126]
XXXIX.THE SANDAL SEWN BY HISTIAEUS[129]
XL.DARIUS DEMANDS EARTH AND WATER[131]
XLI.THE BATTLE OF MARATHON[134]
XLII.MILTIADES SAILS TO THE ISLAND OF PAROS[137]
XLIII.ARISTIDES IS OSTRACISED[140]
XLIV.THE DREAM OF XERXES[145]
XLV.XERXES ORDERS THE HELLESPONT TO BE SCOURGED[148]
XLVI.‘THE BRAVEST MEN OF ALL HELLAS’[153]
XLVII.THE BATTLE OF THERMOPYLAE[156]
XLVIII.THE BATTLE OF ARTEMISIUM[161]
XLIX.THEMISTOCLES URGES EURYBIADES TO STAY AT SALAMIS[163]
L.THEMISTOCLES TRICKS THE ADMIRALS[167]
LI.THE BATTLE OF SALAMIS[169]
LII.THE BATTLE OF PLATAEA[173]
LIII.THE DELIAN LEAGUE[178]
LIV.THEMISTOCLES DECEIVES THE SPARTANS[182]
LV.THEMISTOCLES IS OSTRACISED[185]
LVI.THE ELOQUENCE OF PERICLES[189]
LVII.PERICLES AND ELPINICE[194]
LVIII.THE CITY OF ATHENS[196]
LIX.GREAT MEN OF ATHENS[200]
LX.THE THEBANS ATTACK THE PLATAEANS[202]
LXI.ATTICA IS INVADED BY THE SPARTANS[205]
LXII.THE LAST WORDS OF PERICLES[207]
LXIII.THE SIEGE OF PLATAEA[210]
LXIV.THE SENTENCE OF DEATH[214]
LXV.BRASIDAS LOSES HIS SHIELD[218]
LXVI.THE SPARTANS SURRENDER[221]
LXVII.BRASIDAS THE SPARTAN[225]
LXVIII.AMPHIPOLIS SURRENDERS TO BRASIDAS[228]
LXIX.ALCIBIADES THE FAVOURITE OF ATHENS[232]
LXX.SOCRATES THE PHILOSOPHER[237]
LXXI.ALCIBIADES PRAISES SOCRATES[240]
LXXII.THE IMAGES OF HERMES ARE DESTROYED[244]
LXXIII.ALCIBIADES ESCAPES TO SPARTA[247]
LXXIV.THE SIEGE OF SYRACUSE[249]
LXXV.THE ATHENIAN ARMY IS DESTROYED[252]
LXXVI.ALCIBIADES RETURNS TO ATHENS[255]
LXXVII.ANTIOCHUS DISOBEYS ALCIBIADES[258]
LXXVIII.THE WALLS OF ATHENS ARE DESTROYED[261]
LXXIX.THE MARCH OF THE TEN THOUSAND[264]
LXXX.PELOPIDAS AND EPAMINONDAS[269]
LXXXI.THE SEVEN CONSPIRATORS[273]
LXXXII.THE BATTLE OF LEUCTRA[277]
LXXXIII.THE DEATH OF EPAMINONDAS[281]
LXXXIV.THE TWO BROTHERS[286]
LXXXV.TIMOLEON SENDS DIONYSIUS TO CORINTH[289]
LXXXVI.ICETES TRIES TO SLAY TIMOLEON[293]
LXXXVII.THE BATTLE OF CRIMISUS[296]
LXXXVIII.DEMOSTHENES WISHES TO BECOME AN ORATOR[300]
LXXXIX.DEMOSTHENES THE GREATEST ORATOR OF ATHENS[303]
XC.THE SACRED WAR[306]
XCI.ALEXANDER AND BUCEPHALUS[309]
XCII.ALEXANDER AND DIOGENES[312]
XCIII.THE BATTLE OF GRANICUS[315]
XCIV.THE GORDIAN KNOT[318]
XCV.DARIUS GALLOPS FROM THE BATTLEFIELD[321]
XCVI.TYRE IS STORMED BY ALEXANDER[325]
XCVII.THE BATTLE OF GAUGAMELA[328]
XCVIII.ALEXANDER BURNS PERSEPOLIS[331]
XCIX.ALEXANDER SLAYS HIS FOSTER-BROTHER[334]
C.PORUS AND HIS ELEPHANT[338]
CI.ALEXANDER IS WOUNDED[342]
CII.THE DEATH OF ALEXANDER[345]
CIII.DEMOSTHENES IN THE TEMPLE OF POSEIDON[349]
INDEX[353]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

She changed her into a spider,[Frontispiece]
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Sweet, piercing sweet was the music of Pan’s pipe,[6]
Demeter rejoiced for her daughter was by her side,[10]
The Wind-god sent a gust from the South,[18]
For two days and two nights the boat was tossed hither and thither,[20]
Often she would stand upon the walls of Troy,[34]
‘Yea, verily, thou art Odysseus,’[68]
In the earliest times, a simple foot-race was the only event,[96]
Solon, the wise lawgiver of Athens,[102]
They crashed into the Persian army with tremendous force,[136]
Ship dashed against ship, till the Persian dead strewed the deep ‘like flowers,’[170]
He stood silent before the king,[188]
The figure of the goddess was a colossal one,[196]
He became a target for every arrow,[220]
He drank the contents as though it were a draught of wine,[238]
The multitude saluted him with loud acclamations,[258]
He left the assembly, hiding his face in his cloak,[304]
He ran toward the horse and seized the bridle,[310]
With an effort he looked at them as they passed,[348]

THE STORY OF GREECE

CHAPTER I
WONDERLAND

The story of Greece began long, long ago in a strange wonderland of beauty. Woods and winds, fields and rivers, each had a pathway which led upward and onward into the beautiful land. Sometimes indeed no path was needed, for the rivers, woods, and lone hill-sides were themselves the wonderland of which I am going to tell.