Front matter
STUDIES IN HISTORY
CONTAINING THE
HISTORY OF GREECE, .
Book I
THE HISTORY OF GREECE FROM ITS EARLIEST PERIOD TO THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE PERSIAN WAR.
ESSAY PAGE
1. On the Origin of the Grecian States - - 1
2. On Minos, the Legislator of Crete - ----- -- 11
3. On the Argonautic Expedition --19
4. The Destruction of Troy 25
5. The Death of Codrus - - - 32
6. On Lycurgus, the Spartan Legislator ------ 38
7. On the Messenian Wars - .- -- -- .- -45
8. On Draco, the first Legislator of Athens 51
9. On Solon, the Athenian Legislator and Philosopher - - 56
10. Solon and CroBsus 62
11. On Pisistratus and his Successors - -- -- --67
12. On the earliest Philosophers of Greece ------ 74
13. On the most ancient Greek Poets - -- - - -- -81
14. The Grecian Oracles - -- -- -- -- -- 88
15. The Council of Amphictyons 94
16. The Public Games - -- - 100
Book II. The History Of Greece During The Persian And Peloponnesian Wars
1. On the Causes of the Persian War - 107
2. On the Battle ot Marathon ---113
3. The Death of Miltiades 121
4. The Invasion of Greece by Xerxes - 128
5. The Death of Leonidas - -.-.----«136
6. Athens burnt by Xerxes - 144
7. On the Conclusion of the Persian War -150
8. On the Treason and Death of Pausanias 156
X
CONTENTS.
ESSAY PAGE
9. On the Character and Public Life of Themistocles - - 163
10. Character of Aristides - . - . 170
11. Character and Administration of Cimon - 178
12. On the Causes of the Peloponnesian War ----- 185
13. Character of Pericles, and Progress of the War - - - 191
14. The Peace of Nicias 199
15. On the Sicilian Expedition, conducted by Nicias - - - 207
16. Character of Alcibiades 214
17. Athens taken by Lysander - - - - 222
18. On the Philosophers of the middle Period of Grecian History 231
19. On the Poets of the middle Age - - - 239
20. General View of the State of Literature and the Arts - 249
Book III
THE HISTORY OF GREECE FROM THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR TO ITS FINAL REDUCTION BY THE ROMANS.
1. On the Expulsion of the Thirty Athenian Tyrants - - 258
2. On the Retreat of the Ten Thousand 264
3. On the Character and Death of Socrates ----- 273
4. On the Conquests of Agesilaus and Conon - - - - 284
5. On the Theban War - 291
6. On Pelopidas and Epaminondas 300
7. On Philip of Macedon - - - . . 309
8. On Demosthenes, the Athenian Orator 319
9. On the Subversion of the Persian Empire by Alexander - 329
10. On Alexander's latter Conquests and Death - - . - 340
11. On the Affairs of Greece during the Reigns of Alexander's
Successors 351
12. On Agis and Cleomenes, the Spartan Reformers - - - 360
13. On the Achaean League 370
14. On the Destruction of Corinth, and final Conquest of
Greece by the Romans 379
15. On the latter Philosophers, Poets, Orators, and Artists of
Greece - 386
ADVERTISEMENT.
IX they, by a divine blessing, be rendered subservient, in however small a degree, to the genuine interests of pure and undefiled Religion, by extending the knowledge of Him, " whom to know is life eternal."
St, Neots, November 2H, 1820.
b
THE HISTORY OF GREECE.
The opening of the book is shown; the full text loads in the reader.
Loading the full text…
The end
You’ve reached the end of Studies in history; containing the history of Greece.