The Book of the Ancient Greeks

About this eBook

Author

Dorothy Mills

Title

The book of the ancient Greeks

Original Publication

United States: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1925

Credits

Al Haines

Language

English

Subject

Greece -- History -- To 146 B.C.

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 68180

Release Date

May 26, 2022

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.The Book of the Ancient Greeks
2. 2.CRETE AND THE CIVILIZATION OF THE EARLY AEGEAN WORLD — CHAPTER I THE MEDITERRANEAN WORLD — CHAPTER II CRETE — I. LEGENDS OF CRETE — II. THE PALACES OF CRETE — III. DRESS — IV. RELIGION AND LITERATURE — V. A DAY IN CRETE — VI. THE DESTROYERS — CHAPTER III THE MAINLAND — I. TROY AND THE FIRST DISCOVERIES — II. MYCENAE AND TIRYNS — III. LIFE IN THE HOMERIC AGE — IV. THE GREEK MIGRATIONS
3. 3.THE GREEKS — CHAPTER I THE LAND OF GREECE — CHAPTER II GREEK RELIGION AND THE ORACLES — CHAPTER III THE OLYMPIC GAMES — CHAPTER IV THE GREEK CITY-STATE — CHAPTER V SPARTA[ 1 ] — I. THE GOVERNMENT OF SPARTA: LAWS OF LYCURGUS — II. CUSTOMS IN SPARTA — III. SPARTAN EDUCATION — CHAPTER VI THE GROWTH OF ATHENS — I. EARLIEST ATHENS — II. THE RULE OF THE FEW: THE OLIGARCHY — III. SOLON, THE WISE MAN OF ATHENS AND THE RULE OF THE MANY[ 4 ] — IV. THE TYRANTS — CHAPTER VII GREEK COLONIES — I. THE FOUNDING OF A COLONY — II. IONIA AND LYDIA — CHAPTER VIII THE BEGINNING OF THE PERSIAN WARS[ 1 ] — I. DARIUS AND THE IONIAN REVOLT — II. MARATHON — CHAPTER IX THE GREAT PERSIAN INVASION UNDER XERXES[ 1 ] — I. THE PREPARATIONS — II. THERMOPYLAE — III. THEMISTOCLES — IV. SALAMIS TO THE END — CHAPTER X THE ATHENIAN EMPIRE — I. THE FORTIFICATIONS OF ATHENS — II. THE CONFEDERACY OF DELOS — III. THE ATHENIAN EMPIRE UNDER PERICLES — CHAPTER XI LIFE IN ANCIENT ATHENS IN THE TIME OF PERICLES — I. A WALK IN ANCIENT ATHENS — II. ATHENIAN DRESS — III. THE ATHENIAN HOUSE — IV. ATHENIAN TRADE — V. ATHENIAN POTTERY — CHAPTER XII A DAY WITH AN ATHENIAN — I. THE ATHENIAN GENTLEMAN — II. THE ATHENIAN LADY — CHAPTER XIII THE ATHENIAN SCHOOLBOY — CHAPTER XIV THE GREEK THEATRE — CHAPTER XV THE TEMPLES OF ATHENS — I. GREEK TEMPLES — II. THE ACROPOLIS IN THE TIME OF PERICLES — III. LATER HISTORY OF THE ACROPOLIS — CHAPTER XVI THE DOWNFALL OF ATHENS — I. RIVALRY BETWEEN ATHENS AND SPARTA AND THE BEGINNING OF THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR — II. ATHENS DURING THE WAR — III. ALCIBIADES — IV. THE DOWNFALL OF ATHENS AND THE SUPREMACY OF SPARTA — V. THE MARCH OF THE TEN THOUSAND[ 21 ] — CHAPTER XVII THE GREAT DAYS OF THEBES — I. LEGENDS AND EARLY HISTORY OF THEBES — II. EPAMINONDAS — CHAPTER XVIII ALEXANDER THE GREAT — I. PHILIP OF MACEDON — II. DEMOSTHENES — III. ALEXANDER THE GREAT — CHAPTER XIX THE GIFTS OF GREECE TO THE WORLD — I. THE GREEK SPIRIT — II. SOCRATES — III. GREEK LITERATURE: THE PHILOSOPHERS — IV. GREEK LITERATURE: THE HISTORIANS — V. GREEK LITERATURE: THE DRAMATISTS — VI. GREEK ART — CHAPTER XX THE HELLENISTIC AGE — I. THE EXTENT OF GREEK INFLUENCE — II. ALEXANDRIA — III. SCIENCE IN THE HELLENISTIC AGE — IV. THE END OF GREEK INDEPENDENCE AND THE POWER FROM THE WEST — SUGGESTIONS ABOUT BOOKS FOR FURTHER READING — INDEX

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