Book Description

This history has been drawn up at the request of several teachers for the use of elementary school students. The table of contents presents a full analysis of the work, and has been so arranged that the teacher can frame from it questions, that answers to which will be found in the corresponding pages of this volume. "Written on an excellent plan, and carried out in a careful and scholarlike manner. The great distinctive feature, however, is the History of Literature and Art. This gives it a decided advantage over all previous works." -Athenaeum CHAPTER I . . Geography of Greece CHAPTER II . . Origin of the Greeks, and the Heroic Age CHAPTER III . . General Survey of the Greek People. National Institutions CHAPTER IV . . Early History of Peloponnesus and Sparta to the end of the Messenian Wars, B.C. 668 CHAPTER V . . Early History of Athens down to the Establishment of Democracy by Clisthenes, B.C. 510 CHAPTER VI . . The Greek Colonies CHAPTER VII . . The Persian Wars.--From the Ionic Revolt to the Battle of Marathon, B.C. 500-490 CHAPTER VIII . . The Persian Wars.--The Battles of Thermopylae Salamis, and Plataea, B.C. 480-479 CHAPTER IX . . From the end of the Persian Wars to the beginning of the Peloponnesian War, B.C. 479-431 CHAPTER X . . Athens in the time of Pericles CHAPTER XI . . The Peloponnesian War.--First Period, from the commencement of the War to the Peace of Nicias, B.C. 431-421 CHAPTER XII . . The Peloponnesian War.--Second Period, from the Peace of Nicias to the Defeat of the Athenians in Sicily, B.C. 421-413 CHAPTER XIII . . The Peloponnesian War.--Third Period, from the Sicilian Expedition to the end of the War, B.C. 413-404 CHAPTER XIV . . The Thiry Tyrants, and the death of Socrates, B.C. 404-399 CHAPTER XV . . The Expedition of the Greeks under Cyrus, and Retreat of the Ten Thousand, B.C. 401-400 CHAPTER XVI . . The Supremacy of Sparta, B.C. 404-371 CHAPTER XVII . . The Supremacy of Thebes, B.C. 371-361 CHAPTER XVIII . . History of the Sicilian Greeks from the Destruction of the Athenian Armament to the Death of Timoleon CHAPTER XIX . . Phillip of Macedon, B.C. 359-336 CHAPTER XX . . Alexander the Great, B.C. 336-323 CHAPTER XXI . . From the Death of Alexander the Great to the Conquest of Greece by the Romans, B.C. 323-146 CHAPTER XXII . . Sketch of the History of Greek Literature from the Earliest Times to the Reign of Alexander the Great