A SMALLER HISTORY OF GREECE
from the earliest times to the Roman conquest.
by
WILLIAM SMITH, D.C.L., LL.D.
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CONTENTS.
[CHAPTER I] . . Geography of Greece.
[CHAPTER II] . . Origin of the Greeks, and the Heroic Age.
[CHAPTER III] . . General Survey of the Greek People.
National Institutions.
[CHAPTER IV] . . Early History of Peloponnesus and Sparta to
the end of the Messenian Wars, B.C. 668.
[CHAPTER V] . . Early History of Athens down to the
Establishment of Democracy by Clisthenes,
B.C. 510.
[CHAPTER VI] . . The Greek Colonies.
[CHAPTER VII] . . The Persian Wars.—From the Ionic Revolt to
the Battle of Marathon, B.C. 500-490.
[CHAPTER VIII] . . The Persian Wars.—The Battles of Thermopylae
Salamis, and Plataea, B.C. 480-479.
[CHAPTER IX] . . From the end of the Persian Wars to the
beginning of the Peloponnesian War,
B.C. 479-431.
[CHAPTER X] . . Athens in the time of Pericles.
[CHAPTER XI] . . The Peloponnesian War.—First Period, from the
commencement of the War to the Peace of Nicias,
B.C. 431-421.
[CHAPTER XII] . . The Peloponnesian War.—Second Period, from
the Peace of Nicias to the Defeat of the
Athenians in Sicily, B.C. 421-413.
[CHAPTER XIII] . . The Peloponnesian War.—Third Period, from the
Sicilian Expedition to the end of the War,
B.C. 413-404.
[CHAPTER XIV] . . The Thiry Tyrants, and the death of Socrates,
B.C. 404-399.
[CHAPTER XV] . . The Expedition of the Greeks under Cyrus, and
Retreat of the Ten Thousand, B.C. 401-400.
[CHAPTER XVI] . . The Supremacy of Sparta, B.C. 404-371.
[CHAPTER XVII] . . The Supremacy of Thebes, B.C. 371-361.
[CHAPTER XVIII] . . History of the Sicilian Greeks from the
Destruction of the Athenian Armament to the
Death of Timoleon.
[CHAPTER XIX] . . Phillip of Macedon, B.C. 359-336.
[CHAPTER XX] . . Alexander the Great, B.C. 336-323.
[CHAPTER XXI] . . From the Death of Alexander the Great to the
Conquest of Greece by the Romans, B.C. 323-146.
[CHAPTER XXII] . . Sketch of the History of Greek Literature
from the Earliest Times to the Reign of
Alexander the Great.