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... carrying a club . His great - uncle , Eurystheus , imposed upon him twelve labors , 1 all of which he formed successfully . per- She , becoming He afterwards married Deïaneira . jealous of a female prisoner he had taken , gave to him a ...
... carrying a club . His great - uncle , Eurystheus , imposed upon him twelve labors , 1 all of which he formed successfully . per- She , becoming He afterwards married Deïaneira . jealous of a female prisoner he had taken , gave to him a ...
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... carried to Olympus , where he was honored with immortality . THE HERACLEIDE , the descendants of Heracles , were driven out of the Peloponnesus shortly after the death of their ancestor , and settled in southern Thes- saly . One hundred ...
... carried to Olympus , where he was honored with immortality . THE HERACLEIDE , the descendants of Heracles , were driven out of the Peloponnesus shortly after the death of their ancestor , and settled in southern Thes- saly . One hundred ...
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... carrying little or no water in the summer time . The largest of these streams is the Acheloüs , which rises in Mount Pindus and flows southward , forming the boundary between Acarnania and Ætolia , and empties into the Ionian sea . It ...
... carrying little or no water in the summer time . The largest of these streams is the Acheloüs , which rises in Mount Pindus and flows southward , forming the boundary between Acarnania and Ætolia , and empties into the Ionian sea . It ...
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... carried home . - How fared Athens during this time ? Her walls gone , her houses burned , nothing but ashes and ruins . A sad prospect indeed to the inhabitants as they re- turned to their city , and endeavored as best they could to ...
... carried home . - How fared Athens during this time ? Her walls gone , her houses burned , nothing but ashes and ruins . A sad prospect indeed to the inhabitants as they re- turned to their city , and endeavored as best they could to ...
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... carry out his wishes , he needed the co - operation of Xerxes . Accordingly he allowed the noblest of the prisoners to escape ; then wrote to Xerxes , declaring that it was his fondest wish to bring Greece under the control of the great ...
... carry out his wishes , he needed the co - operation of Xerxes . Accordingly he allowed the noblest of the prisoners to escape ; then wrote to Xerxes , declaring that it was his fondest wish to bring Greece under the control of the great ...
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Acropolis Alcibiades Alexander allies Amphipolis Arcadia Archons Areiopagus Aristeides Aristophanes army arrived Asia Minor Athe Athenian fleet Athenians Athens attack Attica battle became Boeotia C. C. FELTON called Capture central Greece CHAPTER Chios Cimon citizens Cleisthenes Cleon College command Confederacy of Delos Corcyra Corcyræans Corinth Corinthians Cyrus Darius death defeated Demosthenes Dorians edition enemy Epameinondas Euboea Eurymedon expedition favor forces goddess Gylippus Harbor Hellespont Helots inhabitants Ionian island JOHN ALLYN king Laconia land Long Walls Macedonia Mantineia Marathon marched Mardonius Messenians miles Mount Mytilene Naxos nians Notes by C. C. orator Pausanias Peace of Nicias Pelopidas Pelopon Peloponnesian Peloponnesus Pericles PERSIAN INVASION Persians Phædo Philip Phocis plain Platææ Professor of Greek Pylos revised revolt Rhodos sailed Salamis Samos sent ships Sicily soon Spartans Sphacteria Syracusans Syracuse Tanagra Thebans Thebes Themistocles Thessalia Thrace triremes troops victory W. W. GOODWIN Xerxes Zeus
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Page 98 - Harmosts, with indefinite powers, were established everywhere. The Greeks found that instead of gaining by the change of masters, they had lost; they had exchanged the yoke of a power, which if rapacious, was at any rate refined...
Page 114 - All the time that he stood at the head of the state, he governed it with moderation, and watched over its safety. Under him it rose to the highest pitch of greatness. The cause of his influence was that he was powerful in dignity of character and wisdom ; that he proved himself to be pre-eminently the most incorruptible of men ; and that he restrained the people freely, and led them instead of being led by them.
Page 11 - Tsenarum, and 180 miles broad in its widest part, ie from Cape Actium to the plain of Marathon. It is in size but little larger than the State of Maine, which has about 35,000 square miles. Greece is bounded on the north by Illyricum and Macedonia; on the east by the jEgean sea; on the south by the Mediterranean; on the west by the Ionian sea. It may be divided for convenience into three grand divisions; viz., Northern Greece, Central Greece, and Southern Greece, or the Peloponnesus, as the last...
Page 62 - Spartan hoplites, supported by 10,000 allies, were despatched into Doris. The mere approach of so large a force speedily effected the ostensible object of the expedition, and compelled the Phocians to retire. The Lacedaemonians now proceeded to effect their real design, which was to prevent the...
Page 28 - Democratic states were accustomed to ostracize and remove from the city for a definite time those who appeared to be superior to their fellow-citizens, by reason of their wealth, the number of their friends, or any other means of influence.