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A SMALLER HISTORY OF GREECE
from the earliest times to the Roman conquest.

by WILLIAM SMITH, D.C.L., LL.D.

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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 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.

CHAPTER I
.
GEOGRAPHY OF GREECE.
Greece is the southern portion of a great peninsula of Europe, washed
on three sides by the Mediterranean Sea. It is bounded on the north by
the Cambunian mountains, which separate it from