CONTENTS
| PROLOGUE | ||
| THE ISTHMIAN GAMES NEAR CORINTH | ||
| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
| I. | Glaucon the Beautiful | [3] |
| II. | The Athlete | [10] |
| III. | The Hand of Persia | [21] |
| IV. | The Pentathlon | [31] |
| BOOK I | ||
| THE SHADOW OF THE PERSIAN | ||
| V. | Hermione of Eleusis | [51] |
| VI. | Athens | [62] |
| VII. | Democrates and the Tempter | [74] |
| VIII. | On the Acropolis | [84] |
| IX. | The Cyprian Triumphs | [95] |
| X. | Democrates Resolves | [106] |
| XI. | The Panathenæa | [116] |
| XII. | A Traitor to Hellas | [128] |
| XIII. | The Disloyalty of Phormio | [141] |
| XIV. | Mardonius the Persian | [152] |
| BOOK II | ||
| THE COMING OF THE PERSIAN | ||
| XV. | The Lotus-eating at Sardis | [165] |
| XVI. | The Coming of Xerxes the God-king | [174] |
| XVII. | The Charming by Roxana | [186] |
| XVIII. | Democrates’s Troubles Return | [197] |
| XIX. | The Commandment of Xerxes | [209] |
| XX. | Thermopylæ | [219] |
| XXI. | The Three Hundred—and One | [230] |
| XXII. | Mardonius gives a Promise | [243] |
| XXIII. | The Darkest Hour | [253] |
| XXIV. | The Evacuation of Athens | [264] |
| XXV. | The Acropolis Flames | [268] |
| XXVI. | Themistocles is Thinking | [279] |
| XXVII. | The Craft of Odysseus | [287] |
| XXVIII. | Before the Death Grapple | [300] |
| XXIX. | Salamis | [311] |
| XXX. | Themistocles gives a Promise | [329] |
| BOOK III | ||
| THE PASSING OF THE PERSIAN | ||
| XXXI. | Democrates Surrenders | [333] |
| XXXII. | The Stranger in Trœzene | [343] |
| XXXIII. | What befell on the Hillside | [350] |
| XXXIV. | The Loyalty of Lampaxo | [360] |
| XXXV. | Moloch betrays the Phœnician | [372] |
| XXXVI. | The Reading of the Riddle | [388] |
| XXXVII. | The Race To Save Hellas | [399] |
| XXXVIII. | The Council of Mardonius | [418] |
| XXXIX. | The Avenging of Leonidas | [426] |
| XL. | The Song of the Furies | [438] |
| XLI. | The Brightness of Helios | [445] |
PROLOGUE
THE ISTHMIAN GAMES NEAR CORINTH
A VICTOR OF SALAMIS