CONTENTS. PAGE How Troy Was Taken 7 The Voyage of the Argonauts

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

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 DEFENCE 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.

Édition d'Élite

Historical Tales

The Romance of Reality

By

CHARLES MORRIS

Author of "Half-Hours with the Best American Authors," "Tales from the Dramatists," etc.

IN FIFTEEN VOLUMES

Volume X

Greek

J.B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY

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Copyright, 1896, by J.B. Lippincott Company.
Copyright, 1904, by J.B. Lippincott Company.
Copyright, 1908, by J.B. Lippincott Company.