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... became a maritime people . Hence they possessed the love of freedom and the spirit of adventure , which have always characterized , more 1 less , the inhabitants of maritime districts . CHAPTER II . ORIGIN OF THE GREEKS AND THE HEROIC ...
... became a maritime people . Hence they possessed the love of freedom and the spirit of adventure , which have always characterized , more 1 less , the inhabitants of maritime districts . CHAPTER II . ORIGIN OF THE GREEKS AND THE HEROIC ...
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... became the language of Greece . The Hellenes considered themselves the descendants of one common ancestor , Hellen , the son of Deucalion and Pyrrha . To Hellen were ascribed three sons , Dorus , Xuthus , and olus . Of these Dorus and ...
... became the language of Greece . The Hellenes considered themselves the descendants of one common ancestor , Hellen , the son of Deucalion and Pyrrha . To Hellen were ascribed three sons , Dorus , Xuthus , and olus . Of these Dorus and ...
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... became the forefather of the Ionians and Achæans . Thus the Greeks accounted for the origin of the four great divisions of their race . The descent of the Hellenes from a common ancestor , Hellen , was a fundamental article in the ...
... became the forefather of the Ionians and Achæans . Thus the Greeks accounted for the origin of the four great divisions of their race . The descent of the Hellenes from a common ancestor , Hellen , was a fundamental article in the ...
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... became enamoured of the hero , and having supplied him with a clue to trace the windings of the labyrinth , Theseus succeeded in killing the monster , and in track- ing his way out of the mazy lair . Theseus , on his return , became ...
... became enamoured of the hero , and having supplied him with a clue to trace the windings of the labyrinth , Theseus succeeded in killing the monster , and in track- ing his way out of the mazy lair . Theseus , on his return , became ...
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... became in the Republican age the sole depositories of political power . The Greeks in the Heroic age were divided into the three classes of nobles , common freemen , and slaves . The nobles were raised far above the rest of the ...
... became in the Republican age the sole depositories of political power . The Greeks in the Heroic age were divided into the three classes of nobles , common freemen , and slaves . The nobles were raised far above the rest 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.