The Project Gutenberg E-text of A Smaller History of Greece
by William Smith
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- Author
- Smith, William, 1813-1893
- Title
- A Smaller History of Greece: from the Earliest Times to the Roman Conquest
- Credits
- Produced by an anonymous volunteer. HTML version by Al Haines.
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- DF: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Greece
- Subject
- Greece -- History -- To 146 B.C.
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 2096
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2096
- Release Date
- March 1, 2000
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.A SMALLER HISTORY OF GREECE
- 2.from the earliest times to the Roman conquest. — by
- 3.WILLIAM SMITH, D.C.L., LL.D.
- 4.CONTENTS. — 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, DOWN TO THE END OF THE MESSENIAN WARS, B.C. 668. — CHAPTER V. — THE 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 THIRTY 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. — PHILIP 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.
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