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ANCIENT GREECE DOOR

GEORGE GROTE'S

HISTORY OF GREECE

FROM THE EARLIEST PERIOD TO THE CLOSE OF THE GENERATION CONTEMPORARY WITH ALEXANDER THE GREAT


1	LEGENDS RESPECTING THE GODS, HEROES AND MEN
2	LEGENDS RELATING TO HEROES AND MEN
3	LEGEND OF THE IAPETIDS
4	HEROIC LEGENDS.—GENEALOGY OF ARGOS.
5	DEUKALION, HELLEN, AND SONS OF HELLEN.
6	THE AEOLIDS, OR SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF AEOLUS.
7	THE PELOPIDS.
8	LACONIAN AND MESSENIAN GENEALOGIES.
9	ARCADIAN GENEALOGY
10	EAKUS AND HIS DESCENDANTS : EGINA, SALAMIS, AND PITHIA.
11	ATTIC LEGENDS AND GENEALOGIES
12	CRETAN LEGENDS.—MINOS AND HIS FAMILY.
13	ARGONAUTIC EXPEDITION.
14	LEGENDS OF THEBES.
15	LEGEND OF TROY.
16	GREEK MYTHS, AS UNDERSTOOD, FELT AND INTERPRETED BY THE GREEKS THEMSELVES
17	PRE-GRECIAN MYTHICAL VEIN COMPARED WITH THAT OF MODERN EUROPE.
18	CLOSING EVENTS OF LEGENDARY GREECE. PERIOD OF INTERMEDIATE DARKNESS BEFORE THE DAWN OF HISTORICAL GREECE.
19	APPLICATION OF CHRONOLOGY TO GRECIAN LEGEND.
20	STATE OF SOCIETY AND MANNERS AS EXHIBITED IN GRECIAN LEGEND.
21	GRECIAN EPIC. HOMERIC POEMS
22	GENERAL GEOGRAPHY AND LIMITS OF GREECE.
23	THE HELLENIC PEOPLE GENERALLY IN THIS EARLY HISTORICAL TIMES.
24	MEMBERS OF THE HELLENIC AGGREGATE, SEPARATELY TAKEN. GREEKS NORTH OF PELOPONNESUS.
25	EARLIEST HISTORICAL VIEW OF PELOPONNESUS. DORIANS IN ARGOS AND THE NEIGHBORING CITIES.
26	AETOLO-DORIAN EMIGRATION INTO PELOPONNESUS, ELIS, LACOSTIA, AND MESSENIA
BOOK 3 THE AGE OF THE DESPOTS AND THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE WESTERN COLONIES
27	LAWS AND DISCIPLINE OF LYCURGUS AT SPARTA.
28	FIRST (743-724 BC) AND SECOND (660-650 BC) MESSENIAN WARS.
29	CONQUESTS OF SPARTA TOWARDS ARCADIA AND ARGOLIS.
30	CORINTH, SICYON, AND MEGARA. AGE OF THE GRECIAN DESPOTS.
31	IONIC PORTION OF HELLAS.—ATHENS BEFORE SOLON
32	SOLONIAN LAWS AND CONSTITUTION
33	EUBOEA.—CYCLADES.
34	ASIATIC IONIANS.
35	AEOLIC GREEKS IN ASIA.
36	ASIATIC DORIANS.
37	NATIVES OF ASIA MINOR WITH WHOM THE GREEKS BECAME CONNECTED.
38	LYDIANS.—MEDES.—CIMMERIANS—SCYTHIANS.
39	PHENICIANS.
40	ASSYRIANS —BABYLON
41	EGYPTIANS .
42	DECLINE OF PHENICIANS.—GROWTH OF CARTAGHE
43	WESTERN COLONIES OF GREECE IN EPIRUS, ITALY, SICILY, AND GAUL.
44	GRECIAN COLONIES IN AND NEAR EPIRUS
45	AKARNANIANS. EPIROTS.
	BOOK IV. PERSIANS AND GREEKS TO THE BATTLE OF MARATHON
46	ILLYRIANS, MACEDONIANS, PAEONIANS
47	THRACIANS AND GREEK COLONIES IN THRACE
48	CYRENE AND BARKA . HESPERIDES
49	PAN-HELLENIC FESTIVALS. OLYMPIC, PYTHIAN, NEMEAN AND ITSMIAN
50	LYRIC POETRY.—THE SEVEN WISE MEN.
51	GRECIAN AFFAIRS DURING THE GOVERNMENT OF PEISISTRATUS AND HIS SONS AT ATHENS
52	GRECIAN AFFAIRS AFTER THE EXPULSION OF THE PEISISTRATIDS.— REVOLUTION OF CLEISTHENES AND ESTABLISHMENT OF DEMOCRACY AT ATHENS.
53	RISE OF THE PERSIAN EMPIRE. CYRUS
54	GROWTH OF THE PERSIAN EMPIRE.
55	DEMOKEDES. DARIUS INVADES SCYTHIA
56	IONIC REVOLT.
57	FROM THE IONIC REVOLT TO THE BATTLE OF MARATHON.
58	IONIC PHILOSOPHERS. — PYTHAGORAS. — KROTON AND SYBARIS.
	VOLUME V LEONIDAS VERSUS XERXES. DEATH OF PERICLES. BEGINNINGS OF THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR
59	FROM THE BATTLE OF MARATHON TO THE MARCH OF XERXES AGAINST GREECE.
60	PROCEEDINGS IN GREECE FROM THE BATTLE OF MARATHON TO THE TIME OF THE BATTLE OF THERMOPYLAE
61	BATTLES OF THERMOPYLAE AND ARTEMISIUM
62	BATTLE OF SALAMIS.—RETREAT OF XERXES.
63	BATTLES OF PLATAEA AND MYKALE
64	EVENTS IN SICILY DOWN TO THE EXPULSION OF THE GELONIAN DYNASTY AND THE ESTABLISHMENTOF POPULAR GOVERNMENTS THROUGHOUT THE ISLAND.
65	FROM THE BATTLES OF PLATAEA AND MYKALE DOWN TO THE DEATHS OF THEMISTOKLES AND ARISTEIDES
66	PROCEEDINGS OF THE CONFEDERACY UNDER ATHENS AS HEAD. FIRST FORMATION AND RAPID EXPANSION OF THE ATHENIAN EMPIRE
67	CONSTITUTIONAL AND JUDICIAL CHANGES AT ATHENS UNDER PERICLES.
	BOOK VI THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR
68	FROM THE THIRTY YEARS’ TRUCE, FOURTEEN YEARS BEFORE THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR, DOWN TO THE BLOCKADE OF POTIDAEA, IN THE YEAR BEFORE THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR.
69	FROM THE BLOCKADE OF POTIDAEA DOWN TO THE END OF THE FIRST YEAR OF THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR
70	FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE SECOND YEAR DOWN TO THE END OF THE THIRD YEAR OF THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR.
71	FROM THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE FOURTH YEAR OF THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR DOWN TO THE REVOLUTIONARY COMMOTIONS AT CORCYRA.
72	FROM THE TROUBLES IN CORCYRA, IN THE FIFTH YEAR OF THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR, DOWN TO THE END OF THE SIXTH YEAR.
73	SEVENTH YEAR OF THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR.—CAPTURE OF SPHACTERIA.
74	EIGHTH YEAR OF THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR
75	TRUCE FOR ONE YEAR.—RENEWAL OF, WAR AND BATTLE OF AMPHIPOLIS.—PEACE OF NICIAS.
	BOOK VII
76	From the Peace of Nikias to the Olympic Festival or Olympiad 90.
77	From the festival of Olympiad 90, down to the battle of Mantineia.
78	Sicilian affairs after the extinction of the Gelonian dynasty.
79	From the resolution of the Athenians to attack Syracuse, down to the first winter after their arrival in Sicily.
80	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
81	From the resumption of direct hostilities between Athens and Sparta, down to the destruction of the Athenian armament in Sicily.
82	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
83	TWENTY-FIRST TEAR OF THE WAR.—OLIGARCHY OF FOUR HUNDRED AT ATHENS.
84	THE RESTORED ATHENIAN DEMOCRACY, AFTER THE DEPOSITION OF THE FOUR HUNDRED, DOWN TO THE ARRIVAL OF CYRUS THE YOUNGER IN ASIA MINOR.
85	FROM THE ARRIVAL OF CYRUS THE YOUNGER IN ASIA MINOR, DOWN TO THE BATTLE OF ARGINUSAE.
86	FROM THE BATTLE OF ARGINUSAE TO THE RESTORATION OF THE DEMOCRACY AT ATHENS, AFTER THE EXPULSION OF THE THIRTY.
87	FROM THE RESTORATION OF THE DEMOCRACY TO THE DEATH OF ALCIBIADES
88	THE DRAMA—RHETORIC AND DIALECTICS—THE SOPHISTS
89	SOCRATES
	BOOK IX FROM THE RETREAT OF THE TEN THOUSAND TO THE PEACE OF ALTALCIDAS
90	CYRUS THE YOUNGER AND THE TEN THOUSAND GREEKS.
91	RETREAT OF THE TEN THOUSAND GREEKS.
92	PROCEEDINGS OF THE TEN THOUSAND GREEKS, FROM THE TIME THAT THEY REACHED TRAPEZUS, TO THEIR JUNCTION WITH THE LACEDAEMONIAN ARMY IN ASIA MINOR
93	GREECE UNDER THE LACEDEMONIAN EMPIRE.
94	AGESILAUS KING OF SPARTA. — THE CORINTHIAN WAR.
95	FROM THE BATTLE OF KNIDUS TO THE REBUILDING OF THE LONG WALLS OF ATHENS.
96	FROM THE REBUILDING OF THE LONG WALLS OF ATHENS TO THE PEACE OF ANTALKIDAS.
	BOOK X
97	From the Peace of Antalkidas down to the Subjugation of Olynthus by Sparta,
98	From the Subjugation of Olynthus by the Lacedaemonians down to the Congress at Sparta, and Partial Peace, in 371 BC
99	Battle of Leuktra and its consequences
100	From the Foundation of Messene and Megalopolis to the Death of Pelopidas
101	From the Death of Pelopidas to the Battle of Mantinea
102	SICILIAN AFFAIRS AFTER THE DESTRUCTION OF THE ATHENIAN ARMAMENT BEFORE SYRACUSE
103	Sicily during the Despotism of the Elder Dionysius at Syracuse
	BOOK XI
104	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
105	SICILIAN AFFAIRS AFTER THE DEATH OF THE ELDER DIONISYUS—DIINISYUS THE YOUNGER—AND DION
106	SICILIAN AFFAIRS DOWN TO THE CLOSE OF THE EXPEDITION OF TIMOLEON. B.C. 353-336
107	CENTRAL GREECE: THE ACCESSION OF PHILIP OF MACEDON TO THE BIRTH OF ALEXANDER. 359-356 B.C.
108	FROM THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE SACRED WAR TO THAT OF THE OLYNTHIAN WAR
109	EUBOIC AND OLYNTHIAN WARS
110	FROM THE CAPTURE OF OLYNTHUS TO THE TERMINATION OF THE SACRED WAR BY PHILIP
111	FROM THE PEACE OF 346 B.C. TO THE BATTLE OF CHARONEIA AND THE DEATH OF PHILIP
	BOOK XII
112	FIRST PERIOD OF THE REIGN OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT—SIEGE AND CAPTURE OF THEBES
113	ASIATIC CAMPAIGNS OF ALEXANDER
114	SECOND AND THIRD ASIATIC CAMPAIGNS OF ALEXANDER—BATTLE OF ISSUS—SIEGE OF TYRE
115	MILITARY OPERATIONS AND CONQUESTS OF ALEXANDER, AFTER HIS WINTER-QUARTERS IN PERSIS, DOWN TO HIS DEATH AT BABYLON
116	GRECIAN AFFAIRS FROM THE LANDING OF ALEXANDER IN ASIA TO THE CLOSE OF THE LAMIAN WAR
117	FROM THE LAMIAN WAR TO THE CLOSE OF THE HISTORY OF FREE HELLAS AND HELLENISM
118	SICILIAN AND ITALIAN GREEKS—AGATHOCLES
119	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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