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1826.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.

Of the earliest state of Greece. Argos, Athens,

and Sparta founded. The Heraclidæ. Cecrops.

Codrus. Helena. Menelaus. Paris. Edipus.

Jocasta. Periander. Cadmus invents the Greek

alphabet..

CHAPTER II.

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

cargus. The Helots. The Ephori. Equal

division of lands. Iron money introduced.

Public meals. Black broth. Education of

youth, Deformed children exposed to perish.

CHAPTER III.

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.

Croesus king of Lydia. Abolition of debts.

Division of the people into four classes. The

court of Areopagus. Pisistratus. Hippias and

Hipparchus. Harmodius and Aristogiton. . .

CHAPTER IV.

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Hippias dethroned and banished. Ostracism. The

Persians invade Greece. Miltiades. Themis-

tocles. Aristides. Battle of Marathon. Death

of Miltiades..

CHAPTER 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.

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Themistocles chosen generalissimo of the Greek

forces. Athens abandoned, and sacked by the

Persians. Battle of Salamis. Xerxes retreats

out of Greece.

CHAPTER VI.

Mardonius, the Persian general, who was left be-
hind with an army of three hundred thousand

men, endeavours to corrupt the Athenians, but
in vain. Ravages Attica. Is defeated at Platæa.

Sea-fight at Mycale..

CHAPTER 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 Miltiades. Des-

perate conduct of Boges. Cimon defeats the

Persians both by sea and land on the same day.

Simonides, the poet.

CHAPTER VIII.

Pericles; his great eloquence. War between the

Athenians and Lacedæmonians. Battle of Tan-

gara. Death of Cimon. Pericles adorns the

city of Athens with public buildings, the remains

of some of which are still to be seen. The Pelo-

ponnesian war. Battle of Potidæa. Socrates

saves the life of Alcibiades. Aspasia the mis-

tress of Pericles. That general pronounces his

famous funeral oration. A terrible plague at

Athens. Pericles dies of the plague. Platea be-

sieged by the Lacedæmonians. Gallant defence

made by the inhabitants. Part of them escape

in a most surprising manner. The place taken,

and all the men found in it put to death. Cleon

defeats the Lacedæmonians in the island of

Sphacteria. Brasidas, the Lacedæmonian gene-

ral, killed in a sally. Gallant answer of his

mother upon receiving the news of his death.

The peace of Nicias.

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