Table of Contents

Front Matter

How Troy was Taken
The Voyage of the Argonauts
Theseus and Ariadne
The Seven Against Thebes
Lycurgus and the Spartan Laws
Aristomenes, the Hero of Messenia
Solon, the Law-Giver of Athens
The Fortune of Croesus
The Suitors of Agariste
The Tyrants of Corinth
The Ring of Polycrates
The Adventures of Democedes
Darius and the Scythians
The Athenians at Marathon
Xerxes and His Army
How the Spartans Died at Thermopylae
The Wooden Walls of Athens
Plataea's Famous Day
Four Famous Men of Athens
How Athens Rose From its Ashes
The Plague at Athens
The Envoys of Life and Death
The Defense of Plataea
How the Long Walls Went Down
Socrates and Alcibiades
The Retreat of the Ten Thousand
The Rescue of Thebes
The Humiliation of Sparta
Timoleon, the Favorite of Fortune
The Sacred War
Alexander the Great and Darius
The World's Greatest Orator
The Olympic Games
Pyrrhus and the Romans
Philopoemen and the Fall of Sparta
The Death-Struggle of Greece
Zenobia and Longinus
The Literary Glory of Greece