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The Story of the Greeks

by H.A. Guerber Author, Christine Miller Editor

(From Amazon): H. A. Guerber's The Story of the Greeks provides a basic but thorough history of Greece. Beginning with Greek myth and legend, Guerber moves through major figures, the Trojan war, the city-states of of Sparta and Athens, the Persian War, the adventures of Alexander the Great, before ending with Greece's absorption into the Roman Empire. Although recommended for young adults, The Story of the Greeks is a great introduction to anyone with an interest in classical Greek literature, philosophy, or history.

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Resource Type: Book
ISBN: 1456314998
Print Status: In Print
Chapters: 115
Pages: 228
Suggested Grades: 3rd - 9th
Geographical Setting: Greece
Historical Setting: 2250 BC - 146 BC
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Copyright: 2010
Written: 1896

Chapters

1 Early Inhabitants of Greece
2 The Deluge of Ogyges
3 The Founding of Many Important Cities
4 Story of Deucalion
5 Story of Daedalus and Icarus
6 The Adventures of Jason
7 Theseus Visits the Labyrinth
8 The Terrible Prophecy
9 The Sphinx's Riddle
10 Blindness and Death of Oedipus
11 The Brothers' Quarrel
12 The Taking of Thebes
13 The Childhood of Paris
14 The Muster of the Troops
15 The Sacrifice of Iphigenia
16 The Wrath of Achilles
17 Death of Hector and Achilles
18 The Burning of Troy
19 Heroic Death of Codrus
20 The Blind Poet
21 The Rise of Sparta
22 The Spartan Training
23 The Brave Spartan Boy
24 Public Tables in Sparta
25 Laws of Lycurgus
26 The Messenian War
27 The Music of Tyrtaeus
28 Aristomenes' Escape
29 The Olympic Games
30 Milo of Croton
31 The Jealous Athlete
32 The Girls' Games
33 The Bloody Laws of Draco
34 The Laws of Solon
35 The First Plays
36 The Tyrant Pisistratus
37 The Tyrant's Insult
38 Death of the Conspirators
39 Hippias Driven Out of Athens
40 The Great King
41 Hippias Visits Darius
42 Destruction of the Persian Host
43 The Advance of the Second Host
44 The Battle of Marathon
45 Miltiades' Disgrace
46 Aristides the Just
47 Two Noble Spartan Youths
48 The Great Army
49 Preparations for Defence
50 Leonidas at Thermopylae
51 Death of Leonidas
52 The Burning of Athens
53 The Battles of Salamis and Plataea
54 The Rebuilding of Athens
55 Death of Pausanias
56 Cimon Improves Athens
57 The Earthquake
58 The Age of Pericles
59 The Teachings of Anaxagoras
60 Beginning of the Peloponnesian War
61 Death of Pericles
62 The Philosopher Socrates
63 Socrates' Favorite Pupil
64 Youth of Alcibiades
65 Greek Colonies in Italy
66 Alcibiades in Disgrace
67 Death of Alcibiades
68 The Overthrow of the Thirty Tyrants
69 Accusation of Socrates
70 Death of Socrates
71 The Defeat of Cyrus
72 The Retreat of the Ten Thousand
73 Agesilaus in Asia
74 A Strange Interview
75 The Peace of Antalcidas
76 The Theban Friends
77 Thebes Free Once More
78 The Battle of Leuctra
79 Death of Pelopidas
80 The Battle of Mantinea
81 The Tyrant of Syracuse
82 The Story of Damon and Pythias
83 The Sword of Damocles
84 Dion and Dionysius
85 Civil War in Syracuse
86 Death of Dion
87 Philip of Macedon
88 Philip Begins His Conquests
89 The Orator Demosthenes
90 Philip Masters Greece
91 Birth of Alexander
92 The Steed Bucephalus
93 Alexander as King
94 Alexander and Diogenes
95 Alexander's Brilliant Beginning
96 The Gordian Knot
97 Alexander's Royal Captives
98 Alexander at Jerusalem
99 The African Desert
100 Death of Darius
101 Defeat of Porus
102 The Return to Babylon
103 Death of Alexander the Great
104 The Division of the Realm
105 Death of Demosthenes
106 The Last of the Athenians
107 The Colossus of Rhodes
108 The Battle of Ipsus
109 Demetrius and the Athenians
110 The Achaean League
111 Division in Sparta
112 Death of Agis
113 The War of the Two Leagues
114 The Last of the Greeks
115 Greece a Roman Province

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