FOR VERNOR, HOOD AND SHARPE, POULTRY; AND TAYLOR AND HESSEY,

FLEET STREET.

CONTENTS.

CHAP. I.

OF the earliest state of Greece. Argos, Athens, and
Sparta founded. The Heraclida. Cecrops. Codrus.
Helena. Menelaus. Paris. Edipus.

Jocasta.

CHAP. II.

Of the government of Sparta, and the laws of Ly-

curgus. The Helots. The Ephori. Equal division

of lands. Iron money introduced. Public meals.

Black broth. Education of youth. Deformed child-

ren exposed to perish.

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CHAP. III.

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Of the government of Athens, the laws of Solon, and the

history of the republic, from the time of Solon to the

commencement of the Persian war. Draco's laws.

The seven wise men of Greece. Cræsus king of Lydia.

Abolition of debts. Division of the people into four

classes. The court of Areopagus. Pisistratus. Hip-

pias and Hipparchus. Harmodius and Aristogiton.

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CHAP. IV.

Hippias dethroned and banished. Ostracism. The
Persians invade Greece. Miltiades. Themistocles.
Aristides. Battle of Marathon. Death of Miltiades

CHAP. V.

Xerxes invades Greece with a numerous fleet and an

immense army. Leonidas opposes him with a handful

of men, at the straits of Thermopyla. Gloriously

falls in the defence of his country. Themistocles chosen

generalissimo of the Greek forces. Athens abandoned,

and sacked by the Persians.

Xerxes retreats out of Greece..

Battle of Salamis.

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CHAP. VI.

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Mardonius, the Persian general, who was left behind

with an army of three hundred thousand men, endea-

vours to corrupt the Athenians, but in vain. Ravages

Attica. Is defeated at Platea. Sea-fight at Mycale. 45

CHAP. VII.

Athens rebuilt. Aristides receives the surname of Just.

Pausanias starved to death. Themistocles obliged to

abandon his country, and take refuge with the king of

Persia. Puts an end to his own life by poison, rather

than bear arms against the place of his nativity.

Death and character of Aristides. Cimon, the son of

Cimon

Miltiades. Desperate conduct of Boges.

defeats the Persians both by sea and land on the same

day. Simonides, the poet.

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CHAP. VIII.

Pericles; his great eloquence. War between the Athe-
nians and Lacedæmonians. Battle of Tangara.
Death of Cimon. Pericles adorns the city of Athens