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قراءة كتاب Historic Tales: The Romance of Reality. Vol. 10 (of 15), Greek

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Historic Tales: The Romance of Reality. Vol. 10 (of 15), Greek

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Historical Tales


The Romance of Reality

By

CHARLES MORRIS

Author of "Half-Hours with the Best American Authors," "Tales from the Dramatists," etc.

IN FIFTEEN VOLUMES

Volume X

Greek

J.B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY

PHILADELPHIA AND LONDON


Copyright, 1896, by J.B. Lippincott Company.
Copyright, 1904, by J.B. Lippincott Company.
Copyright, 1908, by J.B. Lippincott Company.


CONTENTS.


  PAGE
How Troy Was Taken 7
The Voyage of the Argonauts 28
Theseus and Ariadne 33
The Seven Against Thebes 41
Lycurgus and the Spartan Laws 50
Aristomenes, the Hero of Messenia 60
Solon, the Law-Giver of Athens 67
The Fortune of Crœsus 77
The Suitors of Agaristé 86
The Tyrants of Corinth 93
The Ring of Polycrates 100
The Adventures of Democedes 109
Darius and the Scythians 117
The Athenians at Marathon 126
Xerxes and His Army 135
How the Spartans Died at Thermopylæ 144
The Wooden Walls of Athens 154
Platæa's Famous Day 165
Four Famous Men of Athens 174
How Athens Rose From its Ashes 186
The Plague at Athens 194
The Envoys of Life and Death 200
The Defence of Platæa 205
How the Long Walls Went Down 213
Socrates and Alcibiades 221
The Retreat of the Ten Thousand 231
The Rescue of Thebes 245
The Humiliation of Sparta

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