A History of Greece to the Death of Alexander the Great |
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Achaeans Acropolis Aegean Aegina Alcibiades allies archons Argive Argos army Asia Assembly Athenian Athens attack Attica battle Boeotia Brasidas called Cimon citizens civilisation Cleisthenes Cleon Cnossus coast Coin colony command Confederacy conquest Corcyra Corinth Corinthian Council Cretan Crete Croesus Darius Delphi democracy Demosthenes Dorian Egypt empire enemy enterprise ephors Euboea expedition fleet force Greece Greek harbour Hellas Hellenic Herodotus hill Homeric hoplites influence invaders Ionian island Isthmus king Lacedaemonians land later legend Lydia Mardonius Megara Miletus Mycenae Mytilene Nicias nobles northern oligarchs oracle palace passed peace Peloponnesian Peloponnesus perhaps Pericles Persian Phoenician Pisistratus plain Plataea poet political probably Pylos revolt sailed Salamis Samos Sardis SECT seems sent settlements seventh century ships shores Sicels Sicily side Solon Sparta Syracusan Syracuse temple Thebes Themistocles Thessaly Thrace Thracian Thucydides tion Tiryns town tribes tyranny tyrant victory wall western Xerxes Zeus
Popular passages
Page 405 - And we have not forgotten to provide for our weary spirits many relaxations from toil; we have regular games and sacrifices throughout the year; at home the style of our life is refined; and the delight which we daily feel in all these things helps to banish melancholy.
Page 405 - And we shall assuredly not be without witnesses ; there are mighty monuments of our power which will make us the wonder of this and of succeeding ages...
Page 406 - I would have you day by day fix your eyes upon the greatness of Athens, until you become filled with the love of her ; and when you are impressed by the spectacle of her glory, reflect that this empire has been acquired by men who knew their duty and had the courage to do it...
Page 583 - To sum up : I say that Athens is the school of Hellas, and that the individual Athenian in his own person seems to have the power of adapting himself to the most varied forms of action with the utmost versatility and grace.
Page 807 - Porus. The news that the Cathaeans, a free and warlike people, whom Porus and Abisares had, some time before, failed to conquer, were determined to give him battle, diverted Alexander from the pursuit. He Capture of advanced against their chief town Sangala, strongly walled and pro- Sangala. tected on one side by a hill and on the other by a lake. It was probably near Amritsar, to the north-west of Lahore. The Cathaeans, supported by some neighbouring tribes, had made a stockade with a triple line...
Page 576 - State: for truly, the she-dogs, as the proverb says, are as good as their she-mistresses, and the horses and asses have a way of marching along with all the rights and dignities of freemen; and they will run at anybody who comes in their way if he does not leave the road clear for them: and all things are just ready to burst with liberty.
Page 405 - An Athenian citizen does not neglect the state because he takes care of his own household; and even those of us who are engaged in business have a very fair idea of politics. We alone regard a man who takes no interest in public affairs, not as a harmless, but as a useless character; and if few of us are originators, we are all sound judges of policy.
Page 405 - Our city is thrown open to the world; and we never expel a foreigner, or prevent him from seeing or learning anything of which the secret if revealed to an enemy might profit him. We rely not upon management or trickery, but upon our own hearts and hands. And in the matter of education, whereas they from early youth are always undergoing laborious exercises which are to make them brave, we live at ease, and yet are equally ready to face the perils which they face.
Page 363 - You think that your empire is confined to your allies, but I say that of the two divisions of the world accessible to man, the land and the sea, there is one of which you are absolute masters, and have, or may have, the dominion to any extent which you please. Neither the great King nor any nation on earth can hinder a navy like yours from penetrating whithersoever you choose to sail.
Page 752 - Persian panoplies to Athens, as an offering to Athena on the Acropolis, with this dedication : " Alexander. son of Philip, and the Greeks (except the Lacedaemonians), from the barbarians of Asia." But Athens had no zeal for the cause of the Greeks and Alexander against the barbarians. The victor entrusted the satrapy of Hellespontine Phrygia to Callas, making no change in the method of the Persian administraSuimission tion ; and marched southward to occupy the satrapy of Lydia and of Lydia.