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... Aristides CHAPTER VIII . THE PERSIAN WARS . — THE BATTLES OF THERMOPYLÆ , SALAMIS , And Platra , B. C. 480-479 . TINN 2 : : : XIII 3 Page B.C. CHAPTER IX . FROM THE END OF THE. Conquest of the Asiatic Greeks 45 46 B.C. 560. Kingdom of ...
... Aristides CHAPTER VIII . THE PERSIAN WARS . — THE BATTLES OF THERMOPYLÆ , SALAMIS , And Platra , B. C. 480-479 . TINN 2 : : : XIII 3 Page B.C. CHAPTER IX . FROM THE END OF THE. Conquest of the Asiatic Greeks 45 46 B.C. 560. Kingdom of ...
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... Aristides ..... 476. Cimon takes Eion on the Stry- mon and reduces Scyros .. 73 ens . Athenian colonization : Cleru- chies .. 74 443 . Colony of Thurii . 74 437 . Colony of Amphipolis .. 432 . Attacks upon Pericles . 74 Accusation of ...
... Aristides ..... 476. Cimon takes Eion on the Stry- mon and reduces Scyros .. 73 ens . Athenian colonization : Cleru- chies .. 74 443 . Colony of Thurii . 74 437 . Colony of Amphipolis .. 432 . Attacks upon Pericles . 74 Accusation of ...
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... Aristides . These two eminent men formed a striking contrast to cach other . Themistocles possessed abilities of the most extraordinary kind ; but they were marred by a want of ... Aristides; their characters Ostracism of Aristides.
... Aristides . These two eminent men formed a striking contrast to cach other . Themistocles possessed abilities of the most extraordinary kind ; but they were marred by a want of ... Aristides; their characters Ostracism of Aristides.
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... Aristides arrived with the news that the Grecian fleet was completely surrounded by that of the Persians , and that retreat was no longer possible . As the veil of night rolled gradually away , the Persian fleet was discovered ...
... Aristides arrived with the news that the Grecian fleet was completely surrounded by that of the Persians , and that retreat was no longer possible . As the veil of night rolled gradually away , the Persian fleet was discovered ...
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... Aristides in command of the combined fleet ( B.C. 478 ) . This event was not a mere empty question about a point of honour . It was a real revolution , terminated by a solemn league , of which Athens was to be the head . Aristides took ...
... Aristides in command of the combined fleet ( B.C. 478 ) . This event was not a mere empty question about a point of honour . It was a real revolution , terminated by a solemn league , of which Athens was to be the head . Aristides took ...
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Page 159 - King Artaxerxes thinks it just that the cities in Asia and the islands of Clazomenae and Cyprus should belong to him. He also thinks it just to leave all the other Grecian cities, both small and great, independent — except Lemnos, Imbros, and Scyros, which are to belong to Athens, as of old.
Page 101 - Oppressed at once by war and pestilence, their lands desolated, their homes filled with mourning, it is not surprising that the Athenians were seized with rage and despair, or that they vented their anger on Pericles, whom they deemed the author of their misfortunes. But that statesman still adhered to his plans with unshaken firmness. Though the Lacedaemonians were in Attica, though the plague had already seized on Athens, he was vigorously pushing his plans of offensive operations.
Page 140 - Pli&do of Plato. With a firm and cheerful countenance he drank the cup of hemlock amidst his sorrowing and weeping friends. His last words were addressed to Crito : — " Crito, we owe a cock to ^Esculapius ;* discharge the debt, and by no means omit it.
Page 34 - Solon was the only man, who, without fear or shrinking, deplored the folly of the times, and reproached the Athenians with their cowardice and treachery. You might, said he, with ease have crushed the tyrant in the bud; but nothing now remains but to pluck him up by the roots.