CONTENTS

CHAPTPB

PAGB

V

1

6
30

45

68

85

Preliminary Observations

I. Geography of Ancient Hellas and Adja-

cent Countries

II. Primitive Inhabitants of Pre-historic

Hellas — Antiquity of Man Table

of Early Chronology .

III. Homer

IV. Homeric and Biblical Literature

Was

the Hellenic Bard Ignorant of the Sub-

lime Poetry of the Old Testament?

V. Sparta — Lycurgus - The Achæan and

Dorian Supremacy in the Peloponnesus

VI. Sparta — Laws and Institutions The

Rhetra of Lycurgus

VII. The Amphictyonic Council -Its Influence

Among the Hellenese Lack of Polit-

ical Unity the Cause of the Downfall

of Greece — The Religion of the

Greeks, their Games and Festivals

VIII. Athenian Jurisprudence -Laws and

Constitutions of Solon

IX. Usurpation of the Pisistratidæ The

Constitution of Clisthenes

X. Persians Under Darius His Affairs in

Asia

Scythia and the Scyths

XI. Persians in Europe Under Darius The

Scythian Expedition on the Danube,

B. C. 513

XII. Ionian Wars Burning of Sardis

Military Operations on Coasts of Asia

Minor Battle of Lade

104

122

140

161

172

185

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

PAGB

1

6

30

Was

45

68

85

Preliminary Observations

I. Geography of Ancient Hellas and Adja-

cent Countries

II. Primitive Inhabitants of

of Pre-historic

Hellas — Antiquity of Man Table

of Early Chronology .

III. Homer

IV. Homeric and Biblical Literature

the Hellenic Bard Ignorant of the Sub-

lime Poetry of the Old Testament?

V. Sparta – Lycurgus The Achæan and

Dorian Supremacy in the Peloponnesus

VI. Sparta — Laws and Institutions The

Rhetra of Lycurgus

VII. The Amphictyonic Council Its Influence

Among the Hellenese Lack of Polit-

ical Unity the Cause of the Downfall

of Greece The Religion of the

Greeks, their Games and Festivals

VIII. Athenian Jurisprudence -Laws and

Constitutions of Solon

IX. Usurpation of the Pisistratidæ The

Constitution of Clisthenes

X. Persians Under Darius His Affairs in

Asia — Scythia and the Scyths

XI. Persians in Europe Under Darius The

Scythian Expedition on the Danube,

B. C. 513 .

XII. Ionian Wars -

Burning of Sardis

Military Operations on Coasts of Asia

Minor Battle of Lade

104

122

140

161

172

185

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XIII. First Persian War Marathon

206

XIV. Miltiades

229

XV. Second Persian War Invasion of

Xerxes Advisability of the Expe-

dition Dream of Xerxes De-

parture from Sardis

243

XVI. Second Persian War - March of Xer-

xes from Asia

- Crossing the Helles-

pont Review at Doriscus Col-

loquy with Demaratus

256

XVII. Second Persian War - Numerical

Strength of the Army of Xerxes

Herodotus and His Critics .

274

XVIII. Second Persian War -

Preparations

in Greece to Receive the Army of

Invasion

301

XIX. Advance of Xeries Through Thrace,

Macedonia and the Vale of Tempe

309

XX. Thermopylä

314

XXI. Artemisium

326

XXII. Advance of Xerxes from Thermopylæ

to Athens

Attempt to Sack the

Temple of Delphi -Fall of Athens

Traditions as to Salamis Ora-

cles and Prophecies .

339