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<h1>THE STORY OF GREECE</h1>
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<span class="bold">THE</span><br/>
<span class="xxlarge">STORY OF GREECE</span></p>
<p class="p2 smaller">TOLD TO BOYS AND GIRLS BY</p>
<p class="p1 large">MARY MACGREGOR</p>
<p class="p1 small">AUTHOR OF ‘THE STORY OF ROME’<br/>
‘THE STORY OF FRANCE,’ ETC.</p>
<p class="p2">WITH NINETEEN PLATES IN COLOUR<br/>
BY WALTER CRANE</p>
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<p class="p2 large">LONDON: T. C. & E. C. JACK, <span class="smcap">Ltd.</span><br/>
<span class="small">35 PATERNOSTER ROW, E.C., & EDINBURGH</span></p>
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TO<br/>
<span class="larger">JOYCE MOFFAT SCOTT</span></p>
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<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_vii">vii</span></p>
<p><span class="smcap">Dear little Joyce</span>,—One of the reasons why this book
is to be your very own is that the story it tells begins in
Wonderland, and that is a land in which you and all other
little people wander at will.</p>
<p>Grown up children, men and women as we call them,
do not know the secrets of this strange land, yet there are
a few who can always find their way across its border, as
they used to do when they were small like you. Some few
others there are who remember its secrets well.</p>
<p>Shall I tell you some of the things you hear and see and
do in Wonderland?</p>
<p>Why, when the wind blows soft, faint whispers reach
your ear, but you alone know what the whispers tell. When
the brooks gurgle you hear joyous laughter, and in the
springs of water you see the sparkle of elfin eyes.</p>
<p>As the bluebells shake in the breeze, your tiny feet march
to the music of fairy bands, as the raindrops fall you gather
pearls with your little hands.</p>
<p>The secrets of this strange Wonderland make you so
glad that you laugh and dance and sing.</p>
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<div class="verse indentsq">‘Great, wide, beautiful, wonderful world,</div>
<div class="verse indent0">With the wonderful water round you curled,</div>
<div class="verse indent0">And the wonderful grass upon your breast,</div>
<div class="verse indent0">World you are wonderfully drest.’</div>
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<p>The ancient Wonderland of Hellas, of which this story
tells, was unlike your Wonderland in this, that men and
women dwelt in it as well as boys and girls, and they, too,
saw and heard its secrets. And this was because, in a way
not known to-day, each had kept the heart of a little child.</p>
<p>So it was that these men and women heard voices in the
wind and laughter in the streams, so it was that they saw
eyes in water springs and pearls in raindrops.</p>
<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_viii">viii</span></p>
<p>More even than these things the Hellenes saw. For
across lone hillsides, through busy fields, in sacred groves
and flower-sweet meadows, radiant figures sped. And the
simple folk catching glimpses of these flitting forms said
one to the other, ‘The gods have come to live among us.
Their presence it is that makes the earth so fair, so wonderful.’
As the years passed and the Hellenes grew older, sterner
times came. Cities sprang up on hillsides and by river-banks,
and the gods were seldom seen. Men went to war,
battles were lost and won.</p>
<p>But never, in victory or in defeat, did the people lose
their early love of beauty, or that strange, dreamy sense of
wonder, which from the beginning was ever plucking at
their hearts.</p>
<p>They longed to fulfil their dreams of beauty, they wished
to re-shape the world.</p>
<p>But, because the world was so great, so wide, they began
with one of their cities, the one of which a poet sang,</p>
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<div class="verse indentsq">‘O rich and renowned and with violets crowned,</div>
<div class="verse indent0">O Athens the envied of nations.’</div>
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<p>Here they built temples which became the wonder of
the world, and in them they placed statues of the old gods
of Hellas, beautiful statues wrought by master hands out
of ivory and gold.</p>
<p>Poets and philosophers lived in Athens, too, and so
literature and art spread the glory of Greece far and wide,
moulding the thoughts and quickening the deeds of many
peoples.</p>
<p>Before the glory of Greece faded, Europe had learned
from her to follow truth, to love beauty.</p>
<p>This story tells but a small part of the wonder of this
land, yet I hope that it will make you love her and wish to
learn more about her.—Your friend,</p>
<p class="sigright larger">
MARY MACGREGOR.</p>
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<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_ix">ix</span></p>
<h2 class="nobreak" id="CONTENTS">CONTENTS</h2></div>
<table id="toc" summary="Contents">
<tr class="small">
<td class="tdr">CHAP.</td>
<td> </td>
<td class="tdr">PAGE</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tdr top">I.</td>
<td class="tdl">WONDERLAND</td>
<td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#CHAPTER_I">1</SPAN></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tdr top">II.</td>
<td class="tdl">THE GREAT GOD PAN</td>
<td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#CHAPTER_II">3</SPAN></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tdr top">III.</td>
<td class="tdl">THE SIX POMEGRANATE SEEDS</td>
<td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#CHAPTER_III">6</SPAN></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tdr top">IV.</td>
<td class="tdl">THE BIRTH OF ATHENE</td>
<td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#CHAPTER_IV">11</SPAN></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tdr top">V.</td>
<td class="tdl">THE TWO WEAVERS</td>
<td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#CHAPTER_V">13</SPAN></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tdr top">VI.</td>
<td class="tdl">THE PURPLE FLOWERS</td>
<td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#CHAPTER_VI">16</SPAN></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tdr top">VII.</td>
<td class="tdl">DANAE AND HER LITTLE SON</td>
<td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#CHAPTER_VII">18</SPAN></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tdr top">VIII.</td>
<td class="tdl">THE QUEST OF PERSEUS</td>
<td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#CHAPTER_VIII">22</SPAN></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tdr top">IX.</td>
<td class="tdl">ANDROMEDA AND THE SEA-MONSTER</td>
<td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#CHAPTER_IX">26</SPAN></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tdr top">X.</td>
<td class="tdl">ACRISIUS IS KILLED BY PERSEUS</td>
<td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#CHAPTER_X">29</SPAN></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tdr top">XI.</td>
<td class="tdl">ACHILLES AND BRISEIS THE FAIRCHEEKED</td>
<td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#CHAPTER_XI">32</SPAN></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tdr top">XII.</td>
<td class="tdl">MENELAUS AND PARIS DO BATTLE</td>
<td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#CHAPTER_XII">38</SPAN></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tdr top">XIII.</td>
<td class="tdl">HECTOR AND ANDROMACHE</td>
<td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#CHAPTER_XIII">41</SPAN></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tdr top">XIV.</td>
<td class="tdl">THE HORSES OF ACHILLES</td>
<td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#CHAPTER_XIV">44</SPAN></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tdr top">XV.</td>
<td class="tdl">THE DEATH OF HECTOR</td>
<td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#CHAPTER_XV">48</SPAN></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tdr top">XVI.</td>
<td class="tdl">POLYPHEMUS THE GIANT</td>
<td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#CHAPTER_XVI">54</SPAN></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tdr top">XVII.</td>
<td class="tdl">ODYSSEUS ESCAPES FROM THE CAVE</td>
<td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#CHAPTER_XVII">58</SPAN></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tdr top">XVIII.</td>
<td class="tdl">ODYSSEUS RETURNS TO ITHACA</td>
<td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#CHAPTER_XVIII">61</SPAN></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tdr top">XIX.</td>
<td class="tdl">ARGUS THE HOUND DIES</td>
<td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#CHAPTER_XIX">64</SPAN></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tdr top">XX.</td>
<td class="tdl">THE BOW OF ODYSSEUS</td>
<td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#CHAPTER_XX">67</SPAN><span class="pagenum" id="Page_x">x</span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tdr top">XXI.</td>
<td class="tdl">THE LAND OF HELLAS</td>
<td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#CHAPTER_XXI">72</SPAN></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tdr top">XXII.</td>
<td class="tdl">LYCURGUS AND HIS LITTLE NEPHEW</td>
<td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#CHAPTER_XXII">76</SPAN></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tdr top">XXIII.</td>
<td class="tdl">LYCURGUS RETURNS TO SPARTA</td>
<td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#CHAPTER_XXIII">79</SPAN></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tdr top">XXIV.</td>
<td class="tdl">THE TRAINING OF THE SPARTANS</td>
<td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#CHAPTER_XXIV">82</SPAN></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tdr top">XXV.</td>
<td class="tdl">THE HELOTS</td>
<td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#CHAPTER_XXV">85</SPAN></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tdr top">XXVI.</td>
<td class="tdl">ARISTOMENES AND THE FOX</td>
<td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#CHAPTER_XXVI">89</SPAN></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tdr top">XXVII.</td>
<td class="tdl">THE OLYMPIAN GAMES</td>
<td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#CHAPTER_XXVII">94</SPAN></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tdr top">XXVIII.</td>
<td class="tdl">THE LAST KING OF ATHENS</td>
<td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#CHAPTER_XXVIII">97</SPAN></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tdr top">XXIX.</td>
<td class="tdl">CYLON FAILS TO MAKE HIMSELF TYRANT</td>
<td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#CHAPTER_XXIX">100</SPAN></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tdr top">XXX.</td>
<td class="tdl">SOLON FREES THE SLAVES</td>
<td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#CHAPTER_XXX">102</SPAN></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tdr top">XXXI.</td>
<td class="tdl">THE ATHENIANS TAKE SALAMIS</td>
<td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#CHAPTER_XXXI">106</SPAN></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tdr top">XXXII.</td>
<td class="tdl">PISISTRATUS BECOMES TYRANT</td>
<td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#CHAPTER_XXXII">109</SPAN></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tdr top">XXXIII.</td>
<td class="tdl">HARMODIUS AND ARISTOGITON</td>
<td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#CHAPTER_XXXIII">113</SPAN></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tdr top">XXXIV.</td>
<td class="tdl">THE LAW OF OSTRACISM</td>
<td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#CHAPTER_XXXIV">116</SPAN></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tdr top">XXXV.</td>
<td class="tdl">THE BRIDGE OF BOATS</td>
<td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#CHAPTER_XXXV">118</SPAN></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tdr top">XXXVI.</td>
<td class="tdl">DARIUS REWARDS HISTIAEUS</td>
<td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#CHAPTER_XXXVI">121</SPAN></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tdr top">XXXVII.</td>
<td class="tdl">HISTIAEUS SHAVES THE HEAD OF HIS SLAVE</td>
<td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#CHAPTER_XXXVII">123</SPAN></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tdr top">XXXVIII.</td>
<td class="tdl">SARDIS IS DESTROYED</td>
<td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#CHAPTER_XXXVIII">126</SPAN></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tdr top">XXXIX.</td>
<td class="tdl">THE SANDAL SEWN BY HISTIAEUS</td>
<td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#CHAPTER_XXXIX">129</SPAN></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tdr top">XL.</td>
<td class="tdl">DARIUS DEMANDS EARTH AND WATER</td>
<td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#CHAPTER_XL">131</SPAN></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tdr top">XLI.</td>
<td class="tdl">THE BATTLE OF MARATHON</td>
<td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#CHAPTER_XLI">134</SPAN></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tdr top">XLII.</td>
<td class="tdl">MILTIADES SAILS TO THE ISLAND OF PAROS</td>
<td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#CHAPTER_XLII">137</SPAN></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tdr top">XLIII.</td>
<td class="tdl">ARISTIDES IS OSTRACISED</td>
<td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#CHAPTER_XLIII">140</SPAN></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tdr top">XLIV.</td>
<td class="tdl">THE DREAM OF XERXES</td>
<td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#CHAPTER_XLIV">145</SPAN></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tdr top">XLV.</td>
<td class="tdl">XERXES ORDERS THE HELLESPONT TO BE SCOURGED</td>
<td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#CHAPTER_XLV">148</SPAN></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tdr top">XLVI.</td>
<td class="tdl">‘THE BRAVEST MEN OF ALL HELLAS’</td>
<td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#CHAPTER_XLVI">153</SPAN><span class="pagenum" id="Page_xi">xi</span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tdr top">XLVII.</td>
<td class="tdl">THE BATTLE OF THERMOPYLAE</td>
<td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#CHAPTER_XLVII">156</SPAN></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tdr top">XLVIII.</td>
<td class="tdl">THE BATTLE OF ARTEMISIUM</td>
<td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#CHAPTER_XLVIII">161</SPAN></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tdr top">XLIX.</td>
<td class="tdl">THEMISTOCLES URGES EURYBIADES TO STAY AT SALAMIS</td>
<td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#CHAPTER_XLIX">163</SPAN></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tdr top">L.</td>
<td class="tdl">THEMISTOCLES TRICKS THE ADMIRALS</td>
<td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#CHAPTER_L">167</SPAN></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tdr top">LI.</td>
<td class="tdl">THE BATTLE OF SALAMIS</td>
<td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#CHAPTER_LI">169</SPAN></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tdr top">LII.</td>
<td class="tdl">THE BATTLE OF PLATAEA</td>
<td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#CHAPTER_LII">173</SPAN></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tdr top">LIII.</td>
<td class="tdl">THE DELIAN LEAGUE</td>
<td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#CHAPTER_LIII">178</SPAN></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tdr top">LIV.</td>
<td class="tdl">THEMISTOCLES DECEIVES THE SPARTANS</td>
<td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#CHAPTER_LIV">182</SPAN></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tdr top">LV.</td>
<td class="tdl">THEMISTOCLES IS OSTRACISED</td>
<td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#CHAPTER_LV">185</SPAN></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tdr top">LVI.</td>
<td class="tdl">THE ELOQUENCE OF PERICLES</td>
<td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#CHAPTER_LVI">189</SPAN></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tdr top">LVII.</td>
<td class="tdl">PERICLES AND ELPINICE</td>
<td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#CHAPTER_LVII">194</SPAN></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tdr top">LVIII.</td>
<td class="tdl">THE CITY OF ATHENS</td>
<td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#CHAPTER_LVIII">196</SPAN></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tdr top">LIX.</td>
<td class="tdl">GREAT MEN OF ATHENS</td>
<td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#CHAPTER_LIX">200</SPAN></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tdr top">LX.</td>
<td class="tdl">THE THEBANS ATTACK THE PLATAEANS</td>
<td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#CHAPTER_LX">202</SPAN></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tdr top">LXI.</td>
<td class="tdl">ATTICA IS INVADED BY THE SPARTANS</td>
<td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#CHAPTER_LXI">205</SPAN></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tdr top">LXII.</td>
<td class="tdl">THE LAST WORDS OF PERICLES</td>
<td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#CHAPTER_LXII">207</SPAN></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tdr top">LXIII.</td>
<td class="tdl">THE SIEGE OF PLATAEA</td>
<td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#CHAPTER_LXIII">210</SPAN></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tdr top">LXIV.</td>
<td class="tdl">THE SENTENCE OF DEATH</td>
<td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#CHAPTER_LXIV">214</SPAN></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tdr top">LXV.</td>
<td class="tdl">BRASIDAS LOSES HIS SHIELD</td>
<td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#CHAPTER_LXV">218</SPAN></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tdr top">LXVI.</td>
<td class="tdl">THE SPARTANS SURRENDER</td>
<td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#CHAPTER_LXVI">221</SPAN></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tdr top">LXVII.</td>
<td class="tdl">BRASIDAS THE SPARTAN</td>
<td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#CHAPTER_LXVII">225</SPAN></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tdr top">LXVIII.</td>
<td class="tdl">AMPHIPOLIS SURRENDERS TO BRASIDAS</td>
<td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#CHAPTER_LXVIII">228</SPAN></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tdr top">LXIX.</td>
<td class="tdl">ALCIBIADES THE FAVOURITE OF ATHENS</td>
<td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#CHAPTER_LXIX">232</SPAN></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tdr top">LXX.</td>
<td class="tdl">SOCRATES THE PHILOSOPHER</td>
<td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#CHAPTER_LXX">237</SPAN></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tdr top">LXXI.</td>
<td class="tdl">ALCIBIADES PRAISES SOCRATES</td>
<td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#CHAPTER_LXXI">240</SPAN></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tdr top">LXXII.</td>
<td class="tdl">THE IMAGES OF HERMES ARE DESTROYED</td>
<td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#CHAPTER_LXXII">244</SPAN><span class="pagenum" id="Page_xii">xii</span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tdr top">LXXIII.</td>
<td class="tdl">ALCIBIADES ESCAPES TO SPARTA</td>
<td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#CHAPTER_LXXIII">247</SPAN></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tdr top">LXXIV.</td>
<td class="tdl">THE SIEGE OF SYRACUSE</td>
<td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#CHAPTER_LXXIV">249</SPAN></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tdr top">LXXV.</td>
<td class="tdl">THE ATHENIAN ARMY IS DESTROYED</td>
<td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#CHAPTER_LXXV">252</SPAN></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tdr top">LXXVI.</td>
<td class="tdl">ALCIBIADES RETURNS TO ATHENS</td>
<td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#CHAPTER_LXXVI">255</SPAN></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tdr top">LXXVII.</td>
<td class="tdl">ANTIOCHUS DISOBEYS ALCIBIADES</td>
<td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#CHAPTER_LXXVII">258</SPAN></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tdr top">LXXVIII.</td>
<td class="tdl">THE WALLS OF ATHENS ARE DESTROYED</td>
<td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#CHAPTER_LXXVIII">261</SPAN></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tdr top">LXXIX.</td>
<td class="tdl">THE MARCH OF THE TEN THOUSAND</td>
<td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#CHAPTER_LXXIX">264</SPAN></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tdr top">LXXX.</td>
<td class="tdl">PELOPIDAS AND EPAMINONDAS</td>
<td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#CHAPTER_LXXX">269</SPAN></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tdr top">LXXXI.</td>
<td class="tdl">THE SEVEN CONSPIRATORS</td>
<td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#CHAPTER_LXXXI">273</SPAN></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tdr top">LXXXII.</td>
<td class="tdl">THE BATTLE OF LEUCTRA</td>
<td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#CHAPTER_LXXXII">277</SPAN></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tdr top">LXXXIII.</td>
<td class="tdl">THE DEATH OF EPAMINONDAS</td>
<td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#CHAPTER_LXXXIII">281</SPAN></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tdr top">LXXXIV.</td>
<td class="tdl">THE TWO BROTHERS</td>
<td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#CHAPTER_LXXXIV">286</SPAN></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tdr top">LXXXV.</td>
<td class="tdl">TIMOLEON SENDS DIONYSIUS TO CORINTH</td>
<td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#CHAPTER_LXXXV">289</SPAN></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tdr top">LXXXVI.</td>
<td class="tdl">ICETES TRIES TO SLAY TIMOLEON</td>
<td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#CHAPTER_LXXXVI">293</SPAN></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tdr top">LXXXVII.</td>
<td class="tdl">THE BATTLE OF CRIMISUS</td>
<td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#CHAPTER_LXXXVII">296</SPAN></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tdr top">LXXXVIII.</td>
<td class="tdl">DEMOSTHENES WISHES TO BECOME AN ORATOR</td>
<td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#CHAPTER_LXXXVIII">300</SPAN></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tdr top">LXXXIX.</td>
<td class="tdl">DEMOSTHENES THE GREATEST ORATOR OF ATHENS</td>
<td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#CHAPTER_LXXXIX">303</SPAN></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tdr top">XC.</td>
<td class="tdl">THE SACRED WAR</td>
<td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#CHAPTER_XC">306</SPAN></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tdr top">XCI.</td>
<td class="tdl">ALEXANDER AND BUCEPHALUS</td>
<td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#CHAPTER_XCI">309</SPAN></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tdr top">XCII.</td>
<td class="tdl">ALEXANDER AND DIOGENES</td>
<td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#CHAPTER_XCII">312</SPAN></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tdr top">XCIII.</td>
<td class="tdl">THE BATTLE OF GRANICUS</td>
<td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#CHAPTER_XCIII">315</SPAN></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tdr top">XCIV.</td>
<td class="tdl">THE GORDIAN KNOT</td>
<td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#CHAPTER_XCIV">318</SPAN></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tdr top">XCV.</td>
<td class="tdl">DARIUS GALLOPS FROM THE BATTLEFIELD</td>
<td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#CHAPTER_XCV">321</SPAN></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tdr top">XCVI.</td>
<td class="tdl">TYRE IS STORMED BY ALEXANDER</td>
<td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#CHAPTER_XCVI">325</SPAN></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tdr top">XCVII.</td>
<td class="tdl">THE BATTLE OF GAUGAMELA</td>
<td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#CHAPTER_XCVII">328</SPAN></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tdr top">XCVIII.</td>
<td class="tdl">ALEXANDER BURNS PERSEPOLIS</td>
<td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#CHAPTER_XCVIII">331</SPAN><span class="pagenum" id="Page_xiii">xiii</span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tdr top">XCIX.</td>
<td class="tdl">ALEXANDER SLAYS HIS FOSTER-BROTHER</td>
<td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#CHAPTER_XCIX">334</SPAN></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tdr top">C.</td>
<td class="tdl">PORUS AND HIS ELEPHANT</td>
<td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#CHAPTER_C">338</SPAN></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tdr top">CI.</td>
<td class="tdl">ALEXANDER IS WOUNDED</td>
<td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#CHAPTER_CI">342</SPAN></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tdr top">CII.</td>
<td class="tdl">THE DEATH OF ALEXANDER</td>
<td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#CHAPTER_CII">345</SPAN></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tdr top">CIII.</td>
<td class="tdl">DEMOSTHENES IN THE TEMPLE OF POSEIDON</td>
<td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#CHAPTER_CIII">349</SPAN></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
<td class="tdl">INDEX</td>
<td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#INDEX">353</SPAN></td>
</tr>
</table>
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<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_xiv">xiv</span></p>
<h2 class="nobreak" id="LIST_OF_ILLUSTRATIONS">LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS</h2></div>
<table id="loi" summary="List of Illustratios">
<tr>
<td class="tdl">She changed her into a spider,</td>
<td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#i_frontis"><i>Frontispiece</i></SPAN></td>
</tr>
<tr class="small">
<td> </td>
<td class="tdr">AT PAGE</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tdl">Sweet, piercing sweet was the music of Pan’s pipe,</td>
<td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#if_i_006">6</SPAN></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tdl">Demeter rejoiced for her daughter was by her side,</td>
<td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#if_i_010">10</SPAN></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tdl">The Wind-god sent a gust from the South,</td>
<td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#if_i_018">18</SPAN></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tdl">For two days and two nights the boat was tossed hither and thither,</td>
<td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#if_i_020">20</SPAN></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tdl">Often she would stand upon the walls of Troy,</td>
<td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#if_i_034">34</SPAN></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tdl">‘Yea, verily, thou art Odysseus,’</td>
<td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#if_i_068">68</SPAN></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tdl">In the earliest times, a simple foot-race was the only event,</td>
<td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#if_i_096">96</SPAN></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tdl">Solon, the wise lawgiver of Athens,</td>
<td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#if_i_102">102</SPAN></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tdl">They crashed into the Persian army with tremendous force,</td>
<td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#if_i_136">136</SPAN></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tdl">Ship dashed against ship, till the Persian dead strewed the deep ‘like flowers,’</td>
<td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#if_i_170">170</SPAN></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tdl">He stood silent before the king,</td>
<td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#if_i_188">188</SPAN></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tdl">The figure of the goddess was a colossal one,</td>
<td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#if_i_196">196</SPAN></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tdl">He became a target for every arrow,</td>
<td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#if_i_220">220</SPAN></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tdl">He drank the contents as though it were a draught of wine,</td>
<td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#if_i_238">238</SPAN></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tdl">The multitude saluted him with loud acclamations,</td>
<td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#if_i_258">258</SPAN></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tdl">He left the assembly, hiding his face in his cloak,</td>
<td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#if_i_304">304</SPAN></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tdl">He ran toward the horse and seized the bridle,</td>
<td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#if_i_310">310</SPAN></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tdl">With an effort he looked at them as they passed,</td>
<td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#if_i_348">348</SPAN></td>
</tr>
</table>
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<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_1">1</span></p>
<h2 class="nobreak" id="THE_STORY_OF_GREECE"><span class="larger">THE STORY OF GREECE</span></h2></div>
<hr />
<h2 class="nobreak" id="CHAPTER_I">CHAPTER I<br/> <span class="subhead">WONDERLAND</span></h2></div>
<p class="in0"><span class="firstword">The</span> story of Greece began long, long ago in a strange
wonderland of beauty. Woods and winds, fields and rivers,
each had a pathway which led upward and onward into the
beautiful land. Sometimes indeed no path was needed, for
the rivers, woods, and lone hill-sides were themselves the
wonderland of which I am going to tell.</p>
<p>In the woods and winds, in the trees and rivers, dwelt
the gods and goddesses whom the people of long ago worshipped.
It was their presence in the world that made it
so great, so wide, so wonderful.</p>
<p>To the Hellenes, for that is the name by which the Greeks
called themselves, there were eyes, living eyes in flowers,
trees, and water. ‘So crowded full is the air with them,’
wrote one poet who lived in the far-off days, ‘that there is
no room to put in the spike of an ear of corn without touching
one.’</p>
<p>When the wind blew soft, the Hellenes listened to the
whispering of a voice. When it blew rough, and snatched
one of the children from their midst, they did not greatly
grieve. The child had but gone to be the playmate of the
gods.</p>
<p>The springs sparkled clear, for in them dwelt the Naiads
or freshwater nymphs, with gifts as great as the river gods,
who were ofttimes seen and heard amid the churning,
tossing waters.</p>
<p>In the trees dwelt the Dryads, nymphs these of the forest,<span class="pagenum" id="Page_2">2</span>
whom the Hellenes saw but seldom. Shy nymphs were the
Dryads, born each one at the birth of a tree, in which she
dwelt, fading away when the tree was felled, or when it
withered and died.</p>
<p>Their revels were held in some wooded mountain, far
from the haunts of men. Were a human footfall heard, the
frolics ceased on the instant, while each Dryad sped swift
for shelter to the tree of her birth.</p>
<p>So the gods wandered through the land, filling the earth
with their presence. Yet there was one lofty mountain in
central Greece, named Mount Olympus, which the Hellenes
believed was the peculiar home of the gods. It was to this
great mount that the actual roads on which the Hellenes
walked each day seemed ever to lead.</p>
<p>On the sides of the mountain, green trees and dark pines
clustered close. The summit reached high up, beyond the
clouds, so used the ancient people to tell. Here, where no
human foot had ever climbed, up beyond the twinkling
stars, was the abode of the gods.</p>
<p>What the Hellenes never saw with their eyes, they saw
quite clear with their imagination. Within the clouds,
where the gods dwelt, they gazed in this strange way, upon
marble halls, glistening with gold and silver, upon thrones
too, great white thrones, finer far than those on which an
earthly king might sit. The walls gleamed with rainbow
tints, and beauty as of dawns and sunsets was painted over
the vast arches of Olympus.</p>
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<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_3">3</span></p>
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