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Permission to use Heritage History documents or images for Map showing Greek Colonies and Conquests. commercial purposes, or more information about our collection of traditional history resources can be obtained by contacting us at [email protected] Original Copyright 1896 by Helene Guerber 2 Distributed by Heritage History 2009 PREFACE means only can any one properly understand an historical narrative; and in the present case there is the added reason that the practice will go far towards increasing the child's This elementary history of Greece is intended for interest in geography. Lastly, the teacher should take great supplementary reading or as a first history text-book for care that the proper names are correctly pronounced. The young pupils. It is therefore made up principally of stories most common errors are provided against in the text; for, on about persons; for, while history proper is largely beyond the first occurrence of such a word, it is divided into the comprehension of children, they are able at an early age syllables, with the accent marked. It remains for the teacher to understand and enjoy anecdotes of people, especially of to enforce the ordinary rules as to the proper sounds of those in the childhood of civilization. At the same time, vowels and consonants. these stories will give a clear idea of the most important events that have taken place in the ancient world, and, it is hoped, will arouse a desire to read further. They also aim to H. A. G. enforce the lessons of perseverance, courage, patriotism, and virtue that are taught by the noble lives described. A knowledge of ancient history, however superficial, is of very great value; and the classic legends are almost equally worth knowing, because of the prominent part they play in the world's literature. These tales make a deep impression on the minds of children, and the history thus learned almost in play will cling to the memory far more tenaciously than any lessons subsequently conned. Many children leave school unacquainted with any history except that of the United States; which, dealing with less simple and primitive times than that of Greece, is apt to be so unattractive that the child never afterwards reads any historical works. It has been my intention to write a book which will give children pleasure to read, and will thus counteract the impression that history is uninteresting. A few suggestions to teachers may not be considered superfluous. In the first place, I have found historical anecdotes an excellent aid in teaching English. Pupils find it far from irksome to relate the stories in their own words, and to reproduce them in compositions. Secondly, whenever a city or country is mentioned, every pupil should point out its location on the map. By such Original Copyright 1896 by Helene Guerber 3 Distributed by Heritage History 2009 THE LAWS OF SOLON ................................................... 38 TABLE OF CONTENTS THE FIRST PLAYS ......................................................... 39 THE TYRANT'S INSULT ................................................. 41 EARLY INHABITANTS OF GREECE ................................. 6 DEATH OF THE CONSPIRATORS.................................... 42 THE DELUGE OF OGYGES .............................................. 7 HIPPIAS DRIVEN OUT OF ATHENS ................................ 42 THE FOUNDING OF MANY IMPORTANT CITIES ............. 7 THE GREAT KING ......................................................... 44 STORY OF DEUCALION ................................................... 9 HIPPIAS VISITS DARIUS ................................................ 44 THE ADVENTURES OF JASON ....................................... 11 DESTRUCTION OF THE PERSIAN HOST ......................... 46 THESEUS VISITS THE LABYRINTH ............................... 12 THE ADVANCE OF THE SECOND HOST ......................... 46 THE TERRIBLE PROPHECY .......................................... 13 THE BATTLE OF MARATHON ....................................... 48 THE SPHINX'S RIDDLE ................................................. 14 MILTIADES' DISGRACE ................................................ 49 BLINDNESS AND DEATH OF OEDIPUS ........................... 15 ARISTIDES THE JUST .................................................... 50 THE BROTHERS' QUARREL .......................................... 16 TWO NOBLE SPARTAN YOUTHS ................................... 50 THE TAKING OF THEBES .............................................. 18 THE GREAT ARMY ....................................................... 51 THE CHILDHOOD OF PARIS .......................................... 18 PREPARATIONS FOR DEFENSE ...................................... 52 THE MUSTER OF THE TROOPS ..................................... 19 Leonidas at Thermopylae........................................... 53 THE SACRIFICE OF IPHIGENIA ..................................... 21 DEATH OF LEONIDAS .................................................... 54 THE WRATH OF ACHILLES .......................................... 21 THE BATTLES OF SALAMIS AND PLATAEA .................. 56 THE BURNING OF TROY ............................................... 23 DEATH OF PAUSANIAS .................................................. 58 THE BLIND POET .......................................................... 25 CIMON IMPROVES ATHENS .......................................... 59 THE RISE OF SPARTA ................................................... 26 THE EARTHQUAKE ....................................................... 60 THE SPARTAN TRAINING ............................................. 27 THE TEACHINGS OF ANAXAGORAS .............................. 63 THE BRAVE SPARTAN BOY .......................................... 28 DEATH OF PERICLES .................................................... 64 PUBLIC TABLES IN SPARTA .......................................... 29 THE PHILOSOPHER SOCRATES .................................... 65 LAWS OF LYCURGUS .................................................... 30 SOCRATES' FAVORITE PUPIL ....................................... 66 THE MUSIC OF TYRTAEUS ........................................... 32 YOUTH OF ALCIBIADES ................................................ 68 ARISTOMENES' ESCAPE ............................................... 33 GREEK COLONIES IN ITALY ......................................... 68 THE OLYMPIC GAMES ................................................. 33 ALCIBIADES IN DISGRACE ............................................ 69 MILO OF CROTON ........................................................ 35 DEATH OF ALCIBIADES ................................................ 70 THE JEALOUS ATHLETE ............................................... 35 THE OVERTHROW OF THE THIRTY TYRANTS ............. 71 THE GIRLS' GAMES ...................................................... 36 ACCUSATION OF SOCRATES ......................................... 72 THE BLOODY LAWS OF DRACO ................................... 37 DEATH OF SOCRATES ................................................... 73 Original Copyright 1896 by Helene Guerber 4 Distributed by Heritage History 2009 THE DEFEAT OF CYRUS ............................................... 75 ALEXANDER AT JERUSALEM ...................................... 100 THE RETREAT OF THE TEN THOUSAND ....................... 76 THE AFRICAN DESERT ............................................... 101 AGESILAUS IN ASIA ...................................................... 77 DEATH OF DARIUS ...................................................... 102 A STRANGE INTERVIEW ............................................... 77 THE RETURN TO BABYLON ........................................ 104 THE PEACE OF ANTALCIDAS........................................ 78 THE DIVISION OF THE REALM ..................................