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... Dorians 4 The Argonauts . The Trojan War . Its supposed date .. 6777∞ Eolians Ionians . 5 Return of the Greeks from Troy ... 8 Achæans Foreign settlers in Greece .. 5 5 State of Society in the Heroic Age . The King .. 9 9 Cecrops 5 The ...
... Dorians 4 The Argonauts . The Trojan War . Its supposed date .. 6777∞ Eolians Ionians . 5 Return of the Greeks from Troy ... 8 Achæans Foreign settlers in Greece .. 5 5 State of Society in the Heroic Age . The King .. 9 9 Cecrops 5 The ...
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... Dorians 17 The Spartan government . The legendary account 17 1. The two kings . The Dorians led by the He- raclidæ 17 2. The Gerusia , or Council of 30 Elders .. History of the Heraclide 17 3. The popular assembly . Temenus ...
... Dorians 17 The Spartan government . The legendary account 17 1. The two kings . The Dorians led by the He- raclidæ 17 2. The Gerusia , or Council of 30 Elders .. History of the Heraclide 17 3. The popular assembly . Temenus ...
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... gave their names to the Dorians and Eolians ; and Xuthus , through his two sons , Ion and Achæus , became the forefather of. Athena ( Minerva ) superintending the building of the Argo . GENERAL SURVEY OF THE GREEK PEOPLE -- NATIONAL.
... gave their names to the Dorians and Eolians ; and Xuthus , through his two sons , Ion and Achæus , became the forefather of. Athena ( Minerva ) superintending the building of the Argo . GENERAL SURVEY OF THE GREEK PEOPLE -- NATIONAL.
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... source of supreme power ; but this is an ex- ception to the general rule . Apollo , the principal deity of the Dorians . CHAPTER 16 CHAP . III . HISTORY OF GREECE . Want of political union: independ- ent sovereignty of each city.
... source of supreme power ; but this is an ex- ception to the general rule . Apollo , the principal deity of the Dorians . CHAPTER 16 CHAP . III . HISTORY OF GREECE . Want of political union: independ- ent sovereignty of each city.
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... Dorians . CHAPTER IV . EARLY HISTORY OF PELOPONNESUS AND SPARTA , DOWN TO THE END OF THE MESSENIAN WARS , B.C. 668 . In the heroic age Peloponnesus was occupied by tribes of Dorian conquerors . They had no share in the glories of the ...
... Dorians . CHAPTER IV . EARLY HISTORY OF PELOPONNESUS AND SPARTA , DOWN TO THE END OF THE MESSENIAN WARS , B.C. 668 . In the heroic age Peloponnesus was occupied by tribes of Dorian conquerors . They had no share in the glories of the ...
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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.