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READING HALL

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

 

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HEROIC LEGENDS.—GENEALOGY OF ARGOS.

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DEUKALION, HELLEN, AND SONS OF HELLEN.

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THE AEOLIDS, OR SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF AEOLUS.

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THE PELOPIDS.

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LACONIAN AND MESSENIAN GENEALOGIES.

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ARCADIAN GENEALOGY

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EAKUS AND HIS DESCENDANTS : EGINA, SALAMIS, AND PITHIA.

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ATTIC LEGENDS AND GENEALOGIES

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CRETAN LEGENDS.—MINOS AND HIS FAMILY.

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ARGONAUTIC EXPEDITION.

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LEGENDS OF THEBES.

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LEGEND OF TROY.

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GREEK MYTHS, AS UNDERSTOOD, FELT AND INTERPRETED BY THE GREEKS THEMSELVES

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PRE-GRECIAN MYTHICAL VEIN COMPARED WITH THAT OF MODERN EUROPE.

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CLOSING EVENTS OF LEGENDARY GREECE. PERIOD OF INTERMEDIATE DARKNESS BEFORE THE DAWN OF HISTORICAL GREECE.

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APPLICATION OF CHRONOLOGY TO GRECIAN LEGEND.

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STATE OF SOCIETY AND MANNERS AS EXHIBITED IN GRECIAN LEGEND.

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GRECIAN EPIC. HOMERIC POEMS

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GENERAL GEOGRAPHY AND LIMITS OF GREECE.

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THE HELLENIC PEOPLE GENERALLY IN THIS EARLY HISTORICAL TIMES.

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MEMBERS OF THE HELLENIC AGGREGATE, SEPARATELY TAKEN. GREEKS NORTH OF PELOPONNESUS.

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EARLIEST HISTORICAL VIEW OF PELOPONNESUS. DORIANS IN ARGOS AND THE NEIGHBORING CITIES.

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AETOLO-DORIAN EMIGRATION INTO PELOPONNESUS, ELIS, LACOSTIA, AND MESSENIA

BOOK 3

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

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LAWS AND DISCIPLINE OF LYCURGUS AT SPARTA.

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FIRST (743-724 BC) AND SECOND (660-650 BC) MESSENIAN WARS.

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CONQUESTS OF SPARTA TOWARDS ARCADIA AND ARGOLIS.

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CORINTH, SICYON, AND MEGARA. AGE OF THE GRECIAN DESPOTS.

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IONIC PORTION OF HELLAS.—ATHENS BEFORE SOLON

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SOLONIAN LAWS AND CONSTITUTION

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EUBOEA.—CYCLADES.

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ASIATIC IONIANS.

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AEOLIC GREEKS IN ASIA.

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ASIATIC DORIANS.

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LYDIANS.—MEDES.—CIMMERIANS—SCYTHIANS.

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PHENICIANS.

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ASSYRIANS —BABYLON

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EGYPTIANS .

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DECLINE OF PHENICIANS.—GROWTH OF CARTAGHE

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WESTERN COLONIES OF GREECE IN EPIRUS, ITALY, SICILY, AND GAUL.

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GRECIAN COLONIES IN AND NEAR EPIRUS

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AKARNANIANS. EPIROTS.

 

BOOK IV.

PERSIANS AND GREEKS TO THE BATTLE OF MARATHON

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ILLYRIANS, MACEDONIANS, PAEONIANS

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THRACIANS AND GREEK COLONIES IN THRACE

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CYRENE AND BARKA . HESPERIDES

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PAN-HELLENIC FESTIVALS. OLYMPIC, PYTHIAN, NEMEAN AND ITSMIAN

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GRECIAN AFFAIRS DURING THE GOVERNMENT OF PEISISTRATUS AND HIS SONS AT ATHENS

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GRECIAN AFFAIRS AFTER THE EXPULSION OF THE PEISISTRATIDS.— REVOLUTION OF CLEISTHENES AND ESTABLISHMENT OF DEMOCRACY AT ATHENS.

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RISE OF THE PERSIAN EMPIRE. CYRUS

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GROWTH OF THE PERSIAN EMPIRE.

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DEMOKEDES. DARIUS INVADES SCYTHIA

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IONIC REVOLT.

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FROM THE IONIC REVOLT TO THE BATTLE OF MARATHON.

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IONIC PHILOSOPHERS. — PYTHAGORAS. — KROTON AND SYBARIS.

 

VOLUME V

LEONIDAS VERSUS XERXES. DEATH OF PERICLES. BEGINNINGS OF THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR

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FROM THE BATTLE OF MARATHON TO THE MARCH OF XERXES AGAINST GREECE.

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PROCEEDINGS IN GREECE FROM THE BATTLE OF MARATHON TO THE TIME OF THE BATTLE OF THERMOPYLAE

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BATTLES OF THERMOPYLAE AND ARTEMISIUM

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BATTLE OF SALAMIS.—RETREAT OF XERXES.

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BATTLES OF PLATAEA AND MYKALE

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EVENTS IN SICILY DOWN TO THE EXPULSION OF THE GELONIAN DYNASTY AND THE ESTABLISHMENTOF POPULAR GOVERNMENTS THROUGHOUT THE ISLAND.

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FROM THE BATTLES OF PLATAEA AND MYKALE DOWN TO THE DEATHS OF THEMISTOKLES AND ARISTEIDES

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PROCEEDINGS OF THE CONFEDERACY UNDER ATHENS AS HEAD. FIRST FORMATION AND RAPID EXPANSION OF THE ATHENIAN EMPIRE

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CONSTITUTIONAL AND JUDICIAL CHANGES AT ATHENS UNDER PERICLES.

 

BOOK VI

THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR

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FROM THE THIRTY YEARS’ TRUCE, FOURTEEN YEARS BEFORE THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR, DOWN TO THE BLOCKADE OF POTIDAEA, IN THE YEAR BEFORE THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR.

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FROM THE BLOCKADE OF POTIDAEA DOWN TO THE END OF THE FIRST YEAR OF THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR

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FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE SECOND YEAR DOWN TO THE END OF THE THIRD YEAR OF THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR.

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FROM THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE FOURTH YEAR OF THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR DOWN TO THE REVOLUTIONARY COMMOTIONS AT CORCYRA.

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FROM THE TROUBLES IN CORCYRA, IN THE FIFTH YEAR OF THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR, DOWN TO THE END OF THE SIXTH YEAR.

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SEVENTH YEAR OF THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR.—CAPTURE OF SPHACTERIA.

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EIGHTH YEAR OF THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR

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TRUCE FOR ONE YEAR.—RENEWAL OF, WAR AND BATTLE OF AMPHIPOLIS.—PEACE OF NICIAS.

 

BOOK VII

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From the Peace of Nikias to the Olympic Festival or Olympiad 90.

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From the festival of Olympiad 90, down to the battle of Mantineia.

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Sicilian affairs after the extinction of the Gelonian dynasty.

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From the resolution of the Athenians to attack Syracuse, down to the first winter after their arrival in Sicily.

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From the commencement of the siege of Syracuse by Nikias, down to the second Athenian expedition under Demosthenes, and the resumption of the general war

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From the resumption of direct hostilities between Athens and Sparta, down to the destruction of the Athenian armament in Sicily.

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From the destruction of the Athenian armament in Sicily, down to the oligarchical conspiracy of the four hundred at Athens.

 

 

BOOK VIII

THE SOCRATIC AGE

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TWENTY-FIRST TEAR OF THE WAR.—OLIGARCHY OF FOUR HUNDRED AT ATHENS.

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BOOK IX
FROM THE RETREAT OF THE TEN THOUSAND TO THE PEACE OF ALTALCIDAS

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AGESILAUS KING OF SPARTA. — THE CORINTHIAN WAR.

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FROM THE BATTLE OF KNIDUS TO THE REBUILDING OF THE LONG WALLS OF ATHENS.

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FROM THE REBUILDING OF THE LONG WALLS OF ATHENS TO THE PEACE OF ANTALKIDAS.

 

BOOK X

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From the Peace of Antalkidas down to the Subjugation of Olynthus by Sparta,

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From the Subjugation of Olynthus by the Lacedaemonians down to the Congress at Sparta, and Partial Peace, in 371 BC

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Battle of Leuktra and its consequences

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From the Foundation of Messene and Megalopolis to the Death of Pelopidas

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From the Death of Pelopidas to the Battle of Mantinea

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Sicily during the Despotism of the Elder Dionysius at Syracuse

 

BOOK XI

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SICILIAN AFFAIRS FROM THE DESTRUCTION OF THE CARTHAGINIAN ARMY BY PESTILENCE BEFORE SYRACUSE, DOWN TO THE DEATH OF DIONISYUS THE ELDER. B.C. 394-367

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SICILIAN AFFAIRS AFTER THE DEATH OF THE ELDER DIONISYUS—DIINISYUS THE YOUNGER—AND DION

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SICILIAN AFFAIRS DOWN TO THE CLOSE OF THE EXPEDITION OF TIMOLEON. B.C. 353-336

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CENTRAL GREECE: THE ACCESSION OF PHILIP OF MACEDON TO THE BIRTH OF ALEXANDER. 359-356 B.C.

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FROM THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE SACRED WAR TO THAT OF THE OLYNTHIAN WAR

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EUBOIC AND OLYNTHIAN WARS

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FROM THE CAPTURE OF OLYNTHUS TO THE TERMINATION OF THE SACRED WAR BY PHILIP

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FROM THE PEACE OF 346 B.C. TO THE BATTLE OF CHARONEIA AND THE DEATH OF PHILIP

 

BOOK XII

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FIRST PERIOD OF THE REIGN OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT—SIEGE AND CAPTURE OF THEBES

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ASIATIC CAMPAIGNS OF ALEXANDER

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SECOND AND THIRD ASIATIC CAMPAIGNS OF ALEXANDER—BATTLE OF ISSUS—SIEGE OF TYRE

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MILITARY OPERATIONS AND CONQUESTS OF ALEXANDER, AFTER HIS WINTER-QUARTERS IN PERSIS, DOWN TO HIS DEATH AT BABYLON

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GRECIAN AFFAIRS FROM THE LANDING OF ALEXANDER IN ASIA TO THE CLOSE OF THE LAMIAN WAR

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FROM THE LAMIAN WAR TO THE CLOSE OF THE HISTORY OF FREE HELLAS AND HELLENISM

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SICILIAN AND ITALIAN GREEKS—AGATHOCLES

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OUTLYING HELLENIC CITIES