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... Heroic age : its supposed length .. Hercules 5 6 6 Three classes : noble , common freemen , and slaves Simplicity of manners 9066 Advances made in civilization . 10 Art of war .. CHAPTER III . GENERAL SURVEY OF THE GREEK PEOPLE .
... Heroic age : its supposed length .. Hercules 5 6 6 Three classes : noble , common freemen , and slaves Simplicity of manners 9066 Advances made in civilization . 10 Art of war .. CHAPTER III . GENERAL SURVEY OF THE GREEK PEOPLE .
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... length being not more than 250 English miles , and its greatest breadth only 180. Its surface is considera- bly less than that of Portugal . This small area was divided among & number of independent states , many of them containing a ...
... length being not more than 250 English miles , and its greatest breadth only 180. Its surface is considera- bly less than that of Portugal . This small area was divided among & number of independent states , many of them containing a ...
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... length effects . ses who now steps into the foreground and becomes the real con- queror of Troy . By his advice a wooden horse is built , in whose inside he and other heroes conceal themselves . The infatuated Trojans admit the horse ...
... length effects . ses who now steps into the foreground and becomes the real con- queror of Troy . By his advice a wooden horse is built , in whose inside he and other heroes conceal themselves . The infatuated Trojans admit the horse ...
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... length obtained the entire control of the government , and reduced the kings to a state of humiliation and dependence . The Senate , called Gerusia , or the Council of Elders , consisted of thirty members , among whom the two kings were ...
... length obtained the entire control of the government , and reduced the kings to a state of humiliation and dependence . The Senate , called Gerusia , or the Council of Elders , consisted of thirty members , among whom the two kings were ...
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... length became so serious , that Draco was appointed in 624 B.C. to draw up a written code of laws . They were marked by extreme severity . He affixed the penalty of death to all crimes alike ; to petty thefts , for instance , as well as ...
... length became so serious , that Draco was appointed in 624 B.C. to draw up a written code of laws . They were marked by extreme severity . He affixed the penalty of death to all crimes alike ; to petty thefts , for instance , as well as ...
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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.