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... defeated the Persians in battle . If the Persians had conquered at Marathon , Greece would probably have become a Persian prov- ince , and the destinies of all Europe might have been changed . Miltiades , the hero of Marathon , was ...
... defeated the Persians in battle . If the Persians had conquered at Marathon , Greece would probably have become a Persian prov- ince , and the destinies of all Europe might have been changed . Miltiades , the hero of Marathon , was ...
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... defeated ; but the victory of the Spartans was not decisive enough to give them any real advantage . They made no further attempts , for the present , to oppose the progress of Athens . On the eve of this battle , the banished Cimon ap ...
... defeated ; but the victory of the Spartans was not decisive enough to give them any real advantage . They made no further attempts , for the present , to oppose the progress of Athens . On the eve of this battle , the banished Cimon ap ...
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... defeated it . On the same day Epidamnus fell into their hands , so that the Corcyræans were now masters of the whole Ionian sea . These events hap- pened in the autumn of 435 B.C. The next two years were spent by both parties in active ...
... defeated it . On the same day Epidamnus fell into their hands , so that the Corcyræans were now masters of the whole Ionian sea . These events hap- pened in the autumn of 435 B.C. The next two years were spent by both parties in active ...
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... defeated its purpose . They also built a new wall within the old one , so that , if the latter was taken , the Spartans would still be no nearer the possession of the city . Thereupon the Spartans surrounded the city with a double wall ...
... defeated its purpose . They also built a new wall within the old one , so that , if the latter was taken , the Spartans would still be no nearer the possession of the city . Thereupon the Spartans surrounded the city with a double wall ...
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... defeated the Athenians . A thousand Athenian dead lay upon the field . Thus the triumphant pride of Athens had met with a most decisive rebuff . Sparta began now to recover her courage . Brasidas , her leading general , was a man of ...
... defeated the Athenians . A thousand Athenian dead lay upon the field . Thus the triumphant pride of Athens had met with a most decisive rebuff . Sparta began now to recover her courage . Brasidas , her leading general , was a man of ...
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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.