Project Gutenberg Etext of A Smaller History of Greece, by Smith
A Smaller History of Greece
From The Earliest Times To The Roman Conquest
By William Smith D.C.L., LL.D.
- CHAPTER I Geography of Greece.
- CHAPTER II Origin of the Greeks,
and the Heroic Age.
- CHAPTER III General Survey of the
Greek People. National Institutions.
- CHAPTER IV Early History of
Peloponnesus and Sparta to the end of the Messenian Wars, B.C.
668.
- CHAPTER V Early History of Athens
down to the Establishment of Democracy by Clisthenes, B.C.
510.
- CHAPTER VI The Greek Colonies.
- CHAPTER VII The Persian Wars.--From
the Ionic Revolt to the Battle of Marathon, B.C. 500-490.
- CHAPTER VIII The Persian Wars.--The
Battles of Thermopylae Salamis, and Plataea, B.C. 480-479.
- CHAPTER IX From the end of the
Persian Wars to the beginning of the Peloponnesian War, B.C.
479-431.
- CHAPTER X Athens in the time of
Pericles.
- CHAPTER XI The Peloponnesian
War.--First Period, from the commencement of the War to the Peace
of Nicias, B.C. 431-421.
- CHAPTER XII The Peloponnesian
War.--Second Period, from the Peace of Nicias to the Defeat of
the Athenians in Sicily, B.C. 421-413.
- CHAPTER XIII The Peloponnesian
War.--Third Period, from the Sicilian Expedition to the end of
the War, B.C. 413-404.
- CHAPTER XIV The Thiry Tyrants, and
the death of Socrates, B.C. 404-399.
- CHAPTER XV The Expedition of the
Greeks under Cyrus, and Retreat of the Ten Thousand, B.C.
401-400.
- CHAPTER XVI The Supremacy of
Sparta, B.C. 404-371.
- CHAPTER XVII The Supremacy of
Thebes, B.C. 371-361.
- CHAPTER XVIII History of the
Sicilian Greeks from the Destruction of the Athenian Armament to
the Death of Timoleon.
- CHAPTER XIX Phillip of Macedon,
B.C. 359-336.
- CHAPTER XX Alexander the Great,
B.C. 336-323.
- CHAPTER XXI From the Death of
Alexander the Great to the Conquest of Greece by the Romans, B.C.
323-146.
- CHAPTER XXII Sketch of the History
of Greek Literature from the Earliest Times to the Reign of
Alexander the Great.
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