The book of the ancient Greeks: An Introduction to the History and Civilization of Greece from the Coming of the Greeks to the Conquest of Corinth by Rome in 146 B.C.
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The Book of the Ancient Greeks
CRETE AND THE CIVILIZATION OF THE EARLY AEGEAN WORLD
CHAPTER I THE MEDITERRANEAN WORLD
CHAPTER II CRETE
I. LEGENDS OF CRETE
II. THE PALACES OF CRETE
III. DRESS
IV. RELIGION AND LITERATURE
V. A DAY IN CRETE
VI. THE DESTROYERS
CHAPTER III THE MAINLAND
I. TROY AND THE FIRST DISCOVERIES
II. MYCENAE AND TIRYNS
III. LIFE IN THE HOMERIC AGE
IV. THE GREEK MIGRATIONS
THE GREEKS
CHAPTER I THE LAND OF GREECE
CHAPTER II GREEK RELIGION AND THE ORACLES
CHAPTER III THE OLYMPIC GAMES
CHAPTER IV THE GREEK CITY-STATE
CHAPTER V SPARTA[1]
I. THE GOVERNMENT OF SPARTA: LAWS OF LYCURGUS
II. CUSTOMS IN SPARTA
III. SPARTAN EDUCATION
CHAPTER VI THE GROWTH OF ATHENS
I. EARLIEST ATHENS
II. THE RULE OF THE FEW: THE OLIGARCHY
III. SOLON, THE WISE MAN OF ATHENS AND THE RULE OF THE MANY[4]
IV. THE TYRANTS
CHAPTER VII GREEK COLONIES
I. THE FOUNDING OF A COLONY
II. IONIA AND LYDIA
CHAPTER VIII THE BEGINNING OF THE PERSIAN WARS[1]
I. DARIUS AND THE IONIAN REVOLT
II. MARATHON
CHAPTER IX THE GREAT PERSIAN INVASION UNDER XERXES[1]
I. THE PREPARATIONS
II. THERMOPYLAE
III. THEMISTOCLES
IV. SALAMIS TO THE END
CHAPTER X THE ATHENIAN EMPIRE
I. THE FORTIFICATIONS OF ATHENS
II. THE CONFEDERACY OF DELOS
III. THE ATHENIAN EMPIRE UNDER PERICLES
CHAPTER XI LIFE IN ANCIENT ATHENS IN THE TIME OF PERICLES
I. A WALK IN ANCIENT ATHENS
II. ATHENIAN DRESS
III. THE ATHENIAN HOUSE
IV. ATHENIAN TRADE
V. ATHENIAN POTTERY
CHAPTER XII A DAY WITH AN ATHENIAN
I. THE ATHENIAN GENTLEMAN
II. THE ATHENIAN LADY
CHAPTER XIII THE ATHENIAN SCHOOLBOY
CHAPTER XIV THE GREEK THEATRE
CHAPTER XV THE TEMPLES OF ATHENS
I. GREEK TEMPLES
II. THE ACROPOLIS IN THE TIME OF PERICLES
III. LATER HISTORY OF THE ACROPOLIS
CHAPTER XVI THE DOWNFALL OF ATHENS
I. RIVALRY BETWEEN ATHENS AND SPARTA AND THE BEGINNING OF THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR
II. ATHENS DURING THE WAR
III. ALCIBIADES
IV. THE DOWNFALL OF ATHENS AND THE SUPREMACY OF SPARTA
V. THE MARCH OF THE TEN THOUSAND[21]
CHAPTER XVII THE GREAT DAYS OF THEBES
I. LEGENDS AND EARLY HISTORY OF THEBES
II. EPAMINONDAS
CHAPTER XVIII ALEXANDER THE GREAT
I. PHILIP OF MACEDON
II. DEMOSTHENES
III. ALEXANDER THE GREAT
CHAPTER XIX THE GIFTS OF GREECE TO THE WORLD
I. THE GREEK SPIRIT
II. SOCRATES
III. GREEK LITERATURE: THE PHILOSOPHERS
IV. GREEK LITERATURE: THE HISTORIANS
V. GREEK LITERATURE: THE DRAMATISTS
VI. GREEK ART
CHAPTER XX THE HELLENISTIC AGE
I. THE EXTENT OF GREEK INFLUENCE
II. ALEXANDRIA
III. SCIENCE IN THE HELLENISTIC AGE
IV. THE END OF GREEK INDEPENDENCE AND THE POWER FROM THE WEST
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