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12 volumes : 21 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index

"Reprinted from the second London edition."

Published originally under title: History of Greece. London, 1846-1856. 12 v

v. 1. Legendary Greece: Legends respecting the gods. Legends relating to heroes and men. Legend of the Iapetids. Heroic legends, genealogy of Argus. Deukalion, Hellen, and sons of Hellen. The Aeolids, or sons and daughters of Aeolus. The Pelopids. Laconian and Messenian genealogies. Arcadian genealogy. Aeakus and his descendants, Aegina, Salamis, and Phthia. Attic legends and genealogies. Kretan legends, Minos and his family. Argonautic expedition. Legends of Thebes. Legend of Troy. Grecian mythes, as understood, felt, and interpreted by the Greeks themselves. The Grecian mythical vein compared with that of modern Europe -- v. 2. Continuation of Legendary Greece: Closing events of legendary Greece. Application of chronology to Grecian legend. State of society and manners as exhibited in Grecian legend. Grecian epic, Homeric poems ; Historical Greece: General geography and limits of Greece. The Hellenic people generally in the early historical times. Members of the Hellenic aggregate, separately taken. Earliest historical view of Peloponnesus. Aetolo-Dorian emigration into Peloponnesus, Elis, Laconia, and Messenia. Laws and discipline of Lykurgus at Sparta. First and Second Messenian Wars. Conquests of Sparta towards Arcadia and Argolis -- v. 3. Continuation of Historical Greece: Corinth, Sikyon, and Megara, Age of the Grecian Despots. Ionic portion of Hellas. Solonian laws and constitution. Euboea, Cyclades. Asiatic Ionians. Aeolic Greeks in Asia. Asiatic Dorians. Natives of Asia Minor with whom the Greeks became connected. Lydians, Medes, Cimmerians, Scythians. Phenicians. Assyrians, Babylon. Egyptians. Decline of the Phenicians. Western colonies of Greece in Epirus, Italy, Sicily, and Gaul. Grecian colonies in and near Epirus. Akarnanians, Epirots -- v. 4. Continuation of Historical Greece: Illyrians, Macedonians, Paeonians. Thracians and Greek colonies in Thrace. Kyrene, Barka, Hesperides. Pan-Hellenic festivals, Olympic, Pythian, Nemean, and Isthmian. Lyric poetry. Grecian affairs during the government of Peisistratus and his sons at Athens. Grecian affairs after the expulsion of the Peisistratids. Rise of the Persian Empire, Cyrus. Growth of the Persian Empire. Demokedes, Darius invades Scythia. Ionic Revolt. From the Ionic Revolt to the Battle of Marathon. Ionic philosophers, Pythagoras, Kroton and Sybaris -- v. 5. Continuation of Historical Greece: From the Battle of Marathon to the March of Xerxes against Greece. Proceedings in Greece from the Battle of Marathon to the time of the Battle of Thermopylae. Battles of Thermopylae and Artemisium. Battle of Salamis. Battles of Plataea and Mykale. Events in Sicily down to the expulsion of the Gelonian Dynasty and the establishment of popular governments throughout the island. From the Battle of Platea and Mykale down to the deaths of Themistokles and Aristeides. Proceedings of the Confederacy under Athens as head. Constitutional and judicial changes at Athens under Perikles -- v. 6. Continuation of Historical Greece: From the thirty years' truce, fourteen years before the Peloponnesian War, down to the blockade of Potidaea, in the year before the Peloponnesian War. From the blockade of Potidaea down to the end of the first year of the Peloponnesian War. From the beginning of the second year down to the end of the third year of the Peloponnesian War. From the commencement of the fourth year of the Peloponnesian War down to the revolutionary commotions at Korkyra. From the troubles in Korkyra, in the fifth year of the Peloponnesian War, down to the end of the sixth year. Seventh year of the War. Eighth year of the War. Truce for one year -- v. 7. Continuation of Historical Greece: From the Peace of Nikas to the Olympic Festival of Olympiad 90. From the Festival of Olympiad 90, down to the Battle of Mantineia. Sicilian affairs after the extinction of the Gelonian Dynasty. From the Resolution of the Athenians to attack Syracuse, down to the first winter after their arrival in Sicily. From the commencement of the Siege of Syracuse by Nikias, down to the second Athenian expedition under Demosthenes, and the resumption of the general war. From the resumption of direct hostilities between Athens and Sparta, down to the destruction of the Athenian armament in Sicily. From the destruction of the Athenian armament in Sicily, down to the oligarchical conspiracy of the Four Hundred at Athens -- v. 8. Continuation of Historical Greece: Twenty-first year of the War. The restored Athenian democracy, after the deposition of the Four Hundred, down to the arrival of Cyrus the Younger in Asia Minor. From the arrival of Cyrus the Younger in Asia Minor down to the Battle of Arginusae. From the Battle of Arginusae to the restoration of the democracy at Athens, after the expulsion of the Thirty. From the restoration of the democracy to the death of Alkibiades. The drama. Sokrates -- v. 9. Continuation of Historical Greece: Cyrus the Younger and the Ten Thousand Greeks. Retreat of the Ten Thousand Greeks. Proceedings of the Ten Thousand Greek, from the time that they reached Trapezus, to their junction with the Lacedaemonian Army in Asia Minor. Greece under the Lacedaemonian Empire. Agesilaus King of Sparta. From the Battle of Knidus to the rebuilding of the long walls of Athens. From the rebuilding of the long walls of Athens to the Peace of Antalkidas -- v. 10. Continuation of Historical Greece: From the Peace of Antalkidas down to the subjugation of Olynthus by Sparta. From the subjugation of Olynthus by the Lacedaemonians down to the Congress at Sparta, and partial peace, in 371 B.C. Battle of Leuktra and its consequences. From the foundation of Messene and Megalopolis to the death of Pelopidas. From the death of Pelopidas to the Battle of Matinea. Sicilian affairs after the destruction of the Athenian armament before Syracuse. [S]icily during the despotism of the Elder Dionysius at Syracuse -- v. 11. Continuation of Historical Greece: Sicilian affairs (continued). Sicilian affairs after the death of the Elder Dionysus, Dionysius the Younger, and Dion. Sicilian affairs down to the close of the expedition of Timo Leon, B.C. 353-336. Central Greece. From the commencement of the Sacred War to that of the Olyntian War. Euboic and Olynthian Wars. From the capture to the termination of the Sacred War by Philip. From the Peace of 346 B.C. to the Battle of Chaeroneia and the death of Philip -- v. 12. First period of the reign of Alexander the Great. Asiatic campaigns of Alexander. Second and third Asiatic campaigns of Alexander. Military operations and conquests of Alexander, after his winter quarters in Persia, down to his death at Babylon. Grecian affairs from the landing of Alexander in Asia to the close of the Lamian War. From the Lamian War to the close of the history of free Hellas and Hellenism. Sicilian and Italian Greeks, Agathokles. Outlying Hellenic cities

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