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The Story of Greece

by Mary Macgregor

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  1. 1Dedication
  2. 2Epigraph — Epigraph
  3. 3Chapter I — Wonderland
  4. 4Chapter II — The Great God Pan
  5. 5Chapter III — The Six Pomegranate Seeds
  6. 6Chapter IV — The Birth of Athene
  7. 7Chapter V — The Two Weavers
  8. 8Chapter VI — The Purple Flowers
  9. 9Chapter VII — Danae and Her Little Son
  10. 10Chapter VIII — The Quest of Perseus
  11. 11Chapter IX — Andromeda and the Sea-Monster
  12. 12Chapter X — Acrisius Is Killed by Perseus
  13. 13Chapter XI — Achilles and Briseis the Faircheeked
  14. 14Chapter XII — Menelaus and Paris Do Battle
  15. 15Chapter XIII — Hector and Andromache
  16. 16Chapter XIV — The Horses of Achilles
  17. 17Chapter XV — The Death of Hector
  18. 18Chapter XVI — Polyphemus the Giant
  19. 19Chapter XVII — Odysseus Escapes From the Cave
  20. 20Chapter XVIII — Odysseus Returns to Ithaca
  21. 21Chapter XIX — Argus the Hound Dies
  22. 22Chapter XX — The Bow of Odysseus
  23. 23Chapter XXI — The Land of Hellas
  24. 24Chapter XXII — Lycurgus and His Little Nephew
  25. 25Chapter XXIII — Lycurgus Returns to Sparta
  26. 26Chapter XXIV — The Training of the Spartans
  27. 27Chapter XXV — The Helots
  28. 28Chapter XXVI — Aristomenes and the Fox
  29. 29Chapter XXVII — The Olympian Games
  30. 30Chapter XXVIII — The Last King of Athens
  31. 31Chapter XXIX — Cylon Fails to Make Himself Tyrant
  32. 32Chapter XXX — Solon Frees the Slaves
  33. 33Chapter XXXI — The Athenians Take Salamis
  34. 34Chapter XXXII — Pisistratus Becomes Tyrant
  35. 35Chapter XXXIII — Harmodius and Aristogiton
  36. 36Chapter XXXIV — The Law of Ostracism
  37. 37Chapter XXXV — The Bridge of Boats
  38. 38Chapter XXXVI — Darius Rewards Histiaeus
  39. 39Chapter XXXVII — Histiaeus Shaves the Head of His Slave
  40. 40Chapter XXXVIII — Sardis Is Destroyed
  41. 41Chapter XXXIX — The Sandal Sewn by Histiaeus
  42. 42Chapter XL — Darius Demands Earth and Water
  43. 43Chapter XLI — The Battle of Marathon
  44. 44Chapter XLII — Miltiades Sails to the Island of Paros
  45. 45Chapter XLIII — Aristides Is Ostracised
  46. 46Chapter XLIV — The Dream of Xerxes
  47. 47Chapter XLV — Xerxes Orders the Hellespont to Be Scourged
  48. 48Chapter XLVI — ‘The Bravest Men of All Hellas’
  49. 49Chapter XLVII — The Battle of Thermopylae
  50. 50Chapter XLVIII — The Battle of Artemisium
  51. 51Chapter XLIX — Themistocles Urges Eurybiades to Stay at Salamis
  52. 52Chapter L — Themistocles Tricks the Admirals
  53. 53Chapter LI — The Battle of Salamis
  54. 54Chapter LII — The Battle of Plataea
  55. 55Chapter LIII — The Delian League
  56. 56Chapter LIV — Themistocles Deceives the Spartans
  57. 57Chapter LV — Themistocles Is Ostracised
  58. 58Chapter LVI — The Eloquence of Pericles
  59. 59Chapter LVII — Pericles and Elpinice
  60. 60Chapter LVIII — The City of Athens
  61. 61Chapter LIX — Great Men of Athens
  62. 62Chapter LX — The Thebans Attack the Plataeans
  63. 63Chapter LXI — Attica Is Invaded by the Spartans
  64. 64Chapter LXII — The Last Words of Pericles
  65. 65Chapter LXIII — The Siege of Plataea
  66. 66Chapter LXIV — The Sentence of Death
  67. 67Chapter LXV — Brasidas Loses His Shield
  68. 68Chapter LXVI — The Spartans Surrender
  69. 69Chapter LXVII — Brasidas the Spartan
  70. 70Chapter LXVIII — Amphipolis Surrenders to Brasidas
  71. 71Chapter LXIX — Alcibiades the Favourite of Athens
  72. 72Chapter LXX — Socrates the Philosopher
  73. 73Chapter LXXI — Alcibiades Praises Socrates
  74. 74Chapter LXXII — The Images of Hermes Are Destroyed
  75. 75Chapter LXXIII — Alcibiades Escapes to Sparta
  76. 76Chapter LXXIV — The Siege of Syracuse
  77. 77Chapter LXXV — The Athenian Army Is Destroyed
  78. 78Chapter LXXVI — Alcibiades Returns to Athens
  79. 79Chapter LXXVII — Antiochus Disobeys Alcibiades
  80. 80Chapter LXXVIII — The Walls of Athens Are Destroyed
  81. 81Chapter LXXIX — The March of the Ten Thousand
  82. 82Chapter LXXX — Pelopidas and Epaminondas
  83. 83Chapter LXXXI — The Seven Conspirators
  84. 84Chapter LXXXII — The Battle of Leuctra
  85. 85Chapter LXXXIII — The Death of Epaminondas
  86. 86Chapter LXXXIV — The Two Brothers
  87. 87Chapter LXXXV — Timoleon Sends Dionysius to Corinth
  88. 88Chapter LXXXVI — Icetes Tries to Slay Timoleon
  89. 89Chapter LXXXVII — The Battle of Crimisus
  90. 90Chapter LXXXVIII — Demosthenes Wishes to Become an Orator
  91. 91Chapter LXXXIX — Demosthenes the Greatest Orator of Athens
  92. 92Chapter XC — The Sacred War
  93. 93Chapter XCI — Alexander and Bucephalus
  94. 94Chapter XCII — Alexander and Diogenes
  95. 95Chapter XCIII — The Battle of Granicus
  96. 96Chapter XCIV — The Gordian Knot
  97. 97Chapter XCV — Darius Gallops From the Battlefield
  98. 98Chapter XCVI — Tyre Is Stormed by Alexander
  99. 99Chapter XCVII — The Battle of Gaugamela
  100. 100Chapter XCVIII — Alexander Burns Persepolis
  101. 101Chapter XCIX — Alexander Slays His Foster-Brother
  102. 102Chapter C — Porus and His Elephant
  103. 103Chapter CI — Alexander Is Wounded
  104. 104Chapter CII — The Death of Alexander
  105. 105Chapter CIII — Demosthenes in the Temple of Poseidon

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