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THE DOORS OF WISDOM

ANCIENT GREECE DOOR

GEORGE GROTE'S

HISTORY OF GREECE

FROM THE EARLIEST PERIOD

TO THE CLOSE OF THE GENERATION CONTEMPORARY WITH ALEXANDER THE GREAT


I	LEGENDS RESPECTING THE GODS, HEROES AND MEN
II	LEGENDS RELATING TO HEROES AND MEN
III	LEGEND OF THE IAPETIDS
IV	HEROIC LEGENDS.—GENEALOGY OF ARGOS.
V	DEUKALION, HELLEN, AND SONS OF HELLEN.
VI	THE AEOLIDS, OR SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF AEOLUS.
VII	THE PELOPIDS.
VIII	LACONIAN AND MESSENIAN GENEALOGIES.
IX	ARCADIAN GENEALOGY
X	EAKUS AND HIS DESCENDANTS : EGINA, SALAMIS, AND PITHIA.
XI	ATTIC LEGENDS AND GENEALOGIES
XII	CRETAN LEGENDS.—MINOS AND HIS FAMILY.
XIII	ARGONAUTIC EXPEDITION.
XIV	LEGENDS OF THEBES.
XV	LEGEND OF TROY.
XVI	GREEK MYTHS, AS UNDERSTOOD, FELT AND INTERPRETED BY THE GREEKS THEMSELVES
XVII	PRE-GRECIAN MYTHICAL VEIN COMPARED WITH THAT OF MODERN EUROPE.
XVIII	CLOSING EVENTS OF LEGENDARY GREECE. PERIOD OF INTERMEDIATE DARKNESS BEFORE THE DAWN OF HISTORICAL GREECE.
XIX	APPLICATION OF CHRONOLOGY TO GRECIAN LEGEND.
XX	STATE OF SOCIETY AND MANNERS AS EXHIBITED IN GRECIAN LEGEND.
XXI	GRECIAN EPIC. HOMERIC POEMS
XXII	GENERAL GEOGRAPHY AND LIMITS OF GREECE.
XXIII	THE HELLENIC PEOPLE GENERALLY IN THIS EARLY HISTORICAL TIMES.
XXIV	MEMBERS OF THE HELLENIC AGGREGATE, SEPARATELY TAKEN. GREEKS NORTH OF PELOPONNESUS.
XXV	EARLIEST HISTORICAL VIEW OF PELOPONNESUS. DORIANS IN ARGOS AND THE NEIGHBORING CITIES.
XXVI	AETOLO-DORIAN EMIGRATION INTO PELOPONNESUS, ELIS, LACOSTIA, AND MESSENIA
BOOK 3 THE AGE OF THE DESPOTS AND THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE WESTERN COLONIES
XXVII	LAWS AND DISCIPLINE OF LYCURGUS AT SPARTA.
XXVIII	FIRST (743-724 BC) AND SECOND (660-650 BC) MESSENIAN WARS.
XXIX	CONQUESTS OF SPARTA TOWARDS ARCADIA AND ARGOLIS.
XXX	CORINTH, SICYON, AND MEGARA. AGE OF THE GRECIAN DESPOTS.
XXXI	IONIC PORTION OF HELLAS.—ATHENS BEFORE SOLON
XXXII	SOLONIAN LAWS AND CONSTITUTION
XXXIII	EUBOEA.—CYCLADES.
XXXIV	ASIATIC IONIANS.
XXXV	AEOLIC GREEKS IN ASIA.
XXXVI	ASIATIC DORIANS.
XXXVII	NATIVES OF ASIA MINOR WITH WHOM THE GREEKS BECAME CONNECTED.
XXXVIII	LYDIANS.—MEDES.—CIMMERIANS—SCYTHIANS.
XXXIX	PHENICIANS.
XL	ASSYRIANS —BABYLON
XLI	EGYPTIANS .
XLII	DECLINE OF PHENICIANS.—GROWTH OF CARTAGHE
XLIII	WESTERN COLONIES OF GREECE IN EPIRUS, ITALY, SICILY, AND GAUL.
XLIV	GRECIAN COLONIES IN AND NEAR EPIRUS
XLV	AKARNANIANS. EPIROTS.
	BOOK IV. PERSIANS AND GREEKS TO THE BATTLE OF MARATHON
XLVI	ILLYRIANS, MACEDONIANS, PAEONIANS
XLVII	THRACIANS AND GREEK COLONIES IN THRACE
XLVIII	CYRENE AND BARKA . HESPERIDES
XLIX	PAN-HELLENIC FESTIVALS. OLYMPIC, PYTHIAN, NEMEAN AND ITSMIAN
L	LYRIC POETRY.—THE SEVEN WISE MEN.
LI	GRECIAN AFFAIRS DURING THE GOVERNMENT OF PEISISTRATUS AND HIS SONS AT ATHENS
LII	GRECIAN AFFAIRS AFTER THE EXPULSION OF THE PEISISTRATIDS.— REVOLUTION OF CLEISTHENES AND ESTABLISHMENT OF DEMOCRACY AT ATHENS.
	RISE OF THE PERSIAN EMPIRE. — CYRUS
	GROWTH OF THE PERSIAN EMPIRE.
	DEMOKEDES. DARIUS INVADES SCYTHIA
	IONIC REVOLT.
	FROM THE IONIC REVOLT TO THE BATTLE OF MAEkTHOV.
	IONICPHILOSOPHERS. — PYTHAGORAS. — KROTON AND SYBARIS.
	THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR
	FROM THE TROUBLES IN CORCYRA, IN THE FIFTH YEAR OF THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR, DOWN TO THE END OF THE SIXTH YEAR.
	SEVENTH YEAR OF THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR.—CAPTURE OF SPHACTERIA.
	EIGHTH YEAR OF THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR
	TRUCE FOR ONE YEAR.—RENEWAL OF, WAR AND BATTLE OF AMPHIPOLIS.—PEACE OF NICIAS.
	THE SOCRATIC AGE
	TWENTY-FIRST TEAR OF THE WAR.—OLIGARCHY OF FOUR HUNDRED AT ATHENS.
	THE RESTORED ATHENIAN DEMOCRACY, AFTER THE DEPOSITION OF THE FOUR HUNDRED, DOWN TO THE ARRIVAL OF CYRUS THE YOUNGER IN ASIA MINOR.
	FROM THE ARRIVAL OF CYRUS THE YOUNGER IN ASIA MINOR, DOWN TO THE BATTLE OF ARGINUSAE.
	FROM THE BATTLE OF ARGINUSAE TO THE RESTORATION OF THE DEMOCRACY AT ATHENS, AFTER THE EXPULSION OF THE THIRTY.
	FROM THE RESTORATION OF THE DEMOCRACY TO THE DEATH OF ALCIBIADES
	THE DRAMA—RHETORIC AND DIALECTICS—THE SOPHISTS
	SOCRATES
	CYRUS THE YOUNGER AND THE TEN THOUSAND GREEKS.
	RETREAT OF THE TEN THOUSAND GREEKS.
	PROCEEDINGS OF THE TEN THOUSAND GREEKS, FROM THE TIME THAT THEY REACHED TRAPEZUS, TO THEIR JUNCTION WITH THE LACEDAEMONIAN ARMY IN ASIA MINOR
	GREECE UNDER THE LACEDEMONIAN EMPIRE.
92	ASIATIC CAMPAIGNS OF ALEXANDER
93	SECOND AND THIRD ASIATIC CAMPAIGNS OF ALEXANDER—BATTLE OF ISSUS—SIEGE OF TYRE
94	MILITARY OPERATIONS AND CONQUESTS OF ALEXANDER, AFTER HIS WINTER-QUARTERS IN PERSIS, DOWN TO HIS DEATH AT BABYLON
95	GRECIAN AFFAIRS FROM THE LANDING OF ALEXANDER IN ASIA TO THE CLOSE OF THE LAMIAN WAR
96	FROM THE LAMIAN WAR TO THE CLOSE OF THE HISTORY OF FREE HELLAS AND HELLENISM
97	SICILIAN AND ITALIAN GREEKS—AGATHOCLES
98	OUTLYING HELLENIC CITIES

GEORGE GROTE'S

HISTORY OF GREECE

FROM THE EARLIEST PERIOD

TO THE CLOSE OF THE GENERATION CONTEMPORARY WITH ALEXANDER THE GREAT

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BOOK 3

THE AGE OF THE DESPOTS AND THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE WESTERN COLONIES

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PERSIANS AND GREEKS TO THE BATTLE OF MARATHON

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THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR

THE SOCRATIC AGE

RETREAT OF THE TEN THOUSAND GREEKS.

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