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The Story of the Greeks

by H. A. Guerber

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  1. 1Dedication — Preface
  2. 2I — Early Inhabitants of Greece
  3. 3II — The Deluge of Ogyges
  4. 4III — The Founding of Many Important Cities
  5. 5IV — Story of Deucalion
  6. 6V — Story of Dædalus and Icarus
  7. 7VI — The Adventures of Jason
  8. 8VII — Theseus visits the Labyrinth
  9. 9VIII — The Terrible Prophecy
  10. 10IX — The Sphinx’s Riddle
  11. 11X — Blindness and Death of Œdipus
  12. 12XI — The Brothers’ Quarrel
  13. 13XII — The Taking of Thebes
  14. 14XIII — The Childhood of Paris
  15. 15XIV — The Muster of the Troops
  16. 16XV — The Sacrifice of Iphigenia
  17. 17XVI — The Wrath of Achilles
  18. 18XVII — Death of Hector and Achilles
  19. 19XVIII — The Burning of Troy
  20. 20XIX — Heroic Death of Codrus
  21. 21XX — The Blind Poet
  22. 22XXI — The Rise of Sparta
  23. 23XXII — The Spartan Training
  24. 24XXIII — The Brave Spartan Boy
  25. 25XXIV — Public Tables in Sparta
  26. 26XXV — Laws of Lycurgus
  27. 27XXVI — The Messenian War
  28. 28XXVII — The Music of Tyrtæus
  29. 29XXVIII — Aristomenes’ Escape
  30. 30XXIX — The Olympic Games
  31. 31XXX — Milo of Croton
  32. 32XXXI — The Jealous Athlete
  33. 33XXXII — The Girls’ Games
  34. 34XXXIII — The Bloody Laws of Draco
  35. 35XXXIV — The Laws of Solon
  36. 36XXXV — The First Plays
  37. 37XXXVI — The Tyrant Pisistratus
  38. 38XXXVII — The Tyrant’s Insult
  39. 39XXXVIII — Death of the Conspirators
  40. 40XXXIX — Hippias driven out of Athens
  41. 41XL — The Great King
  42. 42XLI — Hippias visits Darius
  43. 43XLII — Destruction of the Persian Host
  44. 44XLIII — The Advance of the Second Host
  45. 45XLIV — The Battle of Marathon
  46. 46XLV — Miltiades’ Disgrace
  47. 47XLVI — Aristides the Just
  48. 48XLVII — Two Noble Spartan Youths
  49. 49XLVIII — The Great Army
  50. 50XLIX — Preparations for Defense
  51. 51L — Leonidas at Thermopylæ
  52. 52Li — Death of Leonidas
  53. 53LII — The Burning of Athens
  54. 54LIII — The Battles of Salamis and Platæa
  55. 55LIV — The Rebuilding of Athens
  56. 56LV — Death of Pausanias
  57. 57LVI — Cimon improves Athens
  58. 58LVII — The Earthquake
  59. 59LVIII — The Age of Pericles
  60. 60LIX — The Teachings of Anaxagoras
  61. 61LX — Beginning of the Peloponnesian War
  62. 62LXI — Death of Pericles
  63. 63LXII — The Philosopher Socrates
  64. 64LXIII — Socrates’ Favorite Pupil
  65. 65LXIV — Youth of Alcibiades
  66. 66LXV — Greek Colonies in Italy
  67. 67LXVI — Alcibiades in Disgrace
  68. 68LXVII — Death of Alcibiades
  69. 69LXVIII — The Overthrow of the Thirty Tyrants
  70. 70LXIX — Accusation of Socrates
  71. 71LXX — Death of Socrates
  72. 72LXXI — The Defeat of Cyrus
  73. 73LXXII — The Retreat of the Ten Thousand
  74. 74LXXIII — Agesilaus in Asia
  75. 75LXXIV — A Strange Interview
  76. 76LXXV — The Peace of Antalcidas
  77. 77LXXVI — The Theban Friends
  78. 78LXXVII — Thebes Free once more
  79. 79LXXVIII — The Battle of Leuctra
  80. 80LXXIX — Death of Pelopidas
  81. 81LXXX — The Battle of Mantinea
  82. 82LXXXI — The Tyrant of Syracuse
  83. 83LXXXII — Story of Damon and Pythias
  84. 84LXXXIII — The Sword of Damocles
  85. 85LXXXIV — Dion and Dionysius
  86. 86LXXXV — Civil War in Syracuse
  87. 87LXXXVI — Death of Dion
  88. 88LXXXVII — Philip of Macedon
  89. 89LXXXVIII. Philip Begins His Conquests
  90. 90LXXXIX — The Orator Demosthenes
  91. 91XC — Philip masters Greece
  92. 92XCI — Birth of Alexander
  93. 93XCII — The Steed Bucephalus
  94. 94XCIII — Alexander as King
  95. 95XCIV — Alexander and Diogenes
  96. 96XCV — Alexander’s Brilliant Beginning
  97. 97XCVI — The Gordian Knot
  98. 98XCVII — Alexander’s Royal Captives
  99. 99XCVIII — Alexander at Jerusalem
  100. 100XCIX — The African Desert
  101. 101C — Death of Darius
  102. 102CI — Defeat of Porus
  103. 103CII — The Return to Babylon
  104. 104CIII — Death of Alexander the Great
  105. 105CIV — The Division of the Realm
  106. 106CV — Death of Demosthenes
  107. 107CVI — The Last of the Athenians
  108. 108CVII — The Colossus of Rhodes
  109. 109CVIII — The Battle of Ipsus
  110. 110CIX — Demetrius and the Athenians
  111. 111CX — The Achæan League
  112. 112CXI — Division in Sparta
  113. 113CXII — Death of Agis
  114. 114CXIII — The War of the Two Leagues
  115. 115CXIV — The Last of the Greeks
  116. 116CXV — Greece a Roman Province

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