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... Xerxes sets out from Sardis : the march Numbers of the army Preparations of the Greeks to resist Xerxes .. Resolution to defend the pass of Thermopyla . Description of Thermopyla .. Forces of Leonidas at Ther- mopyla ... Attack and ...
... Xerxes sets out from Sardis : the march Numbers of the army Preparations of the Greeks to resist Xerxes .. Resolution to defend the pass of Thermopyla . Description of Thermopyla .. Forces of Leonidas at Ther- mopyla ... Attack and ...
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... Xerxes , the son and successor of Darius , had received the education of an eastern despot , and been surrounded with slaves from his cradle . In person he was the tallest and handsomest man amidst the vast hosts which he led against ...
... Xerxes , the son and successor of Darius , had received the education of an eastern despot , and been surrounded with slaves from his cradle . In person he was the tallest and handsomest man amidst the vast hosts which he led against ...
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... Xerxes began to make preparations for the invasion of Greece . For four years the din of preparation sounded throughout Asia . Troops were collected from every quarter of the Persian empire , and were ordered to . assemble in Cappadocia ...
... Xerxes began to make preparations for the invasion of Greece . For four years the din of preparation sounded throughout Asia . Troops were collected from every quarter of the Persian empire , and were ordered to . assemble in Cappadocia ...
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... Xerxes had been no secret in Greece ; and during the preceding winter a congress of the Grecian states had been summoned by the Spartans and Athenians to meet at the sthmus of Corinth . But so great was the terror inspired by the ...
... Xerxes had been no secret in Greece ; and during the preceding winter a congress of the Grecian states had been summoned by the Spartans and Athenians to meet at the sthmus of Corinth . But so great was the terror inspired by the ...
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... Xerxes at Therma became known , the Greeks were upon the point of celebrating the Olympic games , and the festival of the Carnean Apollo , which was observed with great solemnity at Sparta and in other Doric states . The Peloponnesians ...
... Xerxes at Therma became known , the Greeks were upon the point of celebrating the Olympic games , and the festival of the Carnean Apollo , which was observed with great solemnity at Sparta and in other Doric states . The Peloponnesians ...
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Page xxix - ... the matches. The only prize given to the conqueror was a garland of wild olive ; but this was valued as one of the dearest distinctions in life. To have his name proclaimed as victor before assembled Hollas was an object of ambition with the noblest and the wealthiest of the Greeks.
Page 121 - 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. Should any parties refuse to accept this peace, I will make war upon them, along with those who are of the same mind, both by land and sea, with ships and with money.
Page 69 - 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 10 - 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.
Page xxix - B. c. 776, in which year he is said to have assisted Iphitus in restoring the Olympic games. He belonged to the royal family of Sparta. According to the common account he was the son of Eunomus, one of the two kings who reigned together in Sparta.