A Smaller History of Greece: from the Earliest Times to the Roman Conquest

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A Smaller History of Greece: from the Earliest Times to the Roman Conquest is available in the Project Gutenberg source edition credited to William Smith. Catalog subjects include Greece -- History -- To 146 B.C.. This edition retains the source text, including any introductory material and notes.

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English

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Table of contents

23 chapters

1. 01WILLIAM SMITH, D.C.L., LL.D.2 min
2. 02CONTENTS.6 min
3. 03CHAPTER II. ORIGIN OF THE GREEKS AND THE HEROIC AGE.13 min
4. 04CHAPTER III. GENERAL SURVEY OF THE GREEK PEOPLE—NATIONAL INSTITUTIONS.7 min
5. 05CHAPTER IV. EARLY HISTORY OF PELOPONNESUS AND SPARTA, DOWN TO THE END OF THE MESSENIAN WARS, B.C. 668.19 min
6. 06CHAPTER V. THE EARLY HISTORY OF ATHENS, DOWN TO THE ESTABLISHMENT OF DEMOCRACY BY CLISTHENES, B.C. 510.23 min
7. 07CHAPTER VI. THE GREEK COLONIES.7 min
8. 08CHAPTER VII. THE PERSIAN WARS.—FROM THE IONIC REVOLT TO THE BATTLE OF MARATHON, B.C. 500-490.21 min
9. 09CHAPTER VIII. THE PERSIAN WARS.—THE BATTLES OF THERMOPYLAE, SALAMIS, AND PLATAEA, B.C. 480-479.24 min
10. 10CHAPTER IX. FROM THE END OF THE PERSIAN WARS TO THE BEGINNING OF THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR, B.C. 479-431.28 min
11. 11CHAPTER X. ATHENS IN THE TIME OF PERICLES.15 min
12. 12CHAPTER XI. THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR.—FIRST PERIOD, FROM THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE WAR TO THE PEACE OF NICIAS, B.C. 431-421.21 min
13. 13CHAPTER XII. THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR.—SECOND PERIOD, FROM THE PEACE OF NICIAS TO THE DEFEAT OF THE ATHENIANS IN SICILY, B.C. 421-413.22 min
14. 14CHAPTER XIII. THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR.—THIRD PERIOD, FROM THE SICILIAN EXPEDITION TO THE END OF THE WAR, B.C. 413-404.23 min
15. 15CHAPTER XIV THE THIRTY TYRANTS, AND THE DEATH OF SOCRATES, B.C. 404-399.11 min
16. 16CHAPTER XV. THE EXPEDITION OF THE GREEKS UNDER CYRUS, AND RETREAT OF THE TEN THOUSAND, B.C. 401-400.13 min
17. 17CHAPTER XVI. THE SUPREMACY OF SPARTA, B.C. 404-371.27 min
18. 18CHAPTER XVII. THE SUPREMACY OF THEBES, B.C. 371-361.11 min
19. 19CHAPTER XVIII. HISTORY OF THE SICILIAN GREEKS FROM THE DESTRUCTION OF THE ATHENIAN ARMAMENT TO THE DEATH OF TIMOLEON.6 min
20. 20CHAPTER XIX. PHILIP OF MACEDON, B.C. 359-336.16 min
21. 21CHAPTER XX. ALEXANDER THE GREAT, B.C. 336-323.38 min
22. 22CHAPTER XXI. FROM THE DEATH OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT TO THE CONQUEST OF GREECE BY THE ROMANS, B.C. 323-146.38 min
23. 23CHAPTER XXII. SKETCH OF THE HISTORY OF GREEK LITERATURE FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE REIGN OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT.35 min