LIBRARY Estate of Miss Annie J. King, Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1849, by In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. CONTENTS. Page CHAP. 1.-Extent of ancient Greece. Early history. CHAP. 3.-Athenians dissatisfied with their archons. CHAR. 5.-Walls of Athens rebuilt. Expedition to Asia Minor. Treachery and death of Pausanias. Banishment of Themistocles. His reception at the Persian court. Magnanimity and death. Admin- istration of Aristides. Victories of Cimon and in- gratitude of his countrymen. The age of Pericles. CHAP. 6.-Peloponnesian war. Attack on Platan. CHAP. 8.-Defeat of the Athenians by Lysander. Athens besieged by the Spartans. Peace granted upon humiliating conditions. Entrance of Lysan- der into Athens. The Thirty Tyrants. Decline of Grecian glory. Death of Theramenes. Of Al- cibiades. The Athenians rise and are headed by Thrasybulus. Restoration of the popular govern- ment. Retreat of the Ten Thousand under Xeno- CHAP. 9.-War with Persia. Peace of Antalcidas. CHAP. 10.--Decline of Athenian glory. Fame and power of the Macedonians. Philip and his Mace- donian phalanx. Demosthenes. Birth of Alexan- der the Great. The Sacred war. Proceedings of 22 CHAP. 11.-Alexander the Great Early ambition. CHAP. 12.-Battle of Issus. Generosity of the con- queror. Victorious progress of Alexander. Recep tion at Jerusalem. Foundation of Alexandria. Oracle of Jupiter. Battle of Arbela. Babylon. Persepolis. Destruction of the royal palace. Con- spiracy of Bessus. Assassination of Darius. 29 CHAP. 13.-Alexander's progress through northern Asia. Return to Bactriana. Death of Parmenio. Of Bessus. Alexander slays Clitus. Marries Roxana. Indian campaign. Extravagance of the conqueror. Death of Hephaestion Death of Alex- CHAP. 14.-Division of the Empire. Death of De- mosthenes. Of Phocion. The Achæan league. Efforts of Aratus. Character of the Spartans Agis and Agesilaus. Death of the former. Cleo- menes defeats the Achaians. Success of Antigonus. 31 CHAP. 15.-Earthquake at Rhodes. The Etolians CHAP. 16.-Beauty of natural scenery. Athens. Sparta, Thebes, and Corinth. Grecian architec- ture and sculpture. Venus. The Laocoon. Paint- CHAP. 17. Classes of Athenians. The Magistracy CHAP. 21.-Election of Ancus Martius. His victo- ries. Death. Lucius Tarquinius Priscus elected king. He defeats the Latins and Sabines. The Soothsayers. Tarquinius slain by order of the CHAP. 22.-Servius Tullius. Early years of his 38 43 |