epares for the
invasion of Greece.
M415 His immense preparations.
M416 His vast army.
M417 The Persian fleet.
M418 Political change at Athens. Miltiades, and other generals.
M419 Themistocles.
M420 Aristides.
M421 Athens allies herself with Sparta.
M422 Prominence of the dangers.
M423 Marshaling of the Grecian forces at Marathon. The battle of
Marathon.
M424 Results of the battle.
M425 Fame of Miltiades. His subsequent reverses. His death. Jealousies
between Aristides and Themistocles.
M426 Not altogether on personal grounds.
M427 Renewed preparations of Darius. His death.
M428 Xerxes. His enormous preparations. His bridges over the Hellespont.
M429 His advance. He crosses the Hellespont. His review of his army.
M430 The magnitude of his forces.
M431 Progress of the Persians.
M432 Preparations of the Athenians. Sparta commands the land forces and
Athens the naval.
M433 The pass of Thermopylae.
M434 Interruption of military preparations by the Olympic games.
M435 Leonidas defends the pass of Thermopylae.
M436 The Greek fleet. Disaster to the Persian fleet.
M437 Attack on the Greeks by the Persians.
M438 Leonidas defends the pass, but is slain. Heroic death of the three
hundred Spartans.
M439 The dismay and indignation of Xerxes.
M440 Naval battle of Artemisium.
M441 Themistocles sails for Salamis.
M442 Despair of the Greeks. Themistocles revives courage by his "wooden
wall."
M443 The hostile fleets at Salamis.
M444 Self-confidence of Xerxes. Battle of Salamis and retreat of Xerxes.
M445 The important results.
M446 Mardonius left in command of the Persians. He ravishes Attica and
Boeotia.
M447 The Greeks assemble against the Persians at Plataea. Preparations for
battle.
M448 Battle of Plataea.
M449 Chastisement of Thebes.
M450 Battle of Mycale.
M451 Rivalry between Athens and Sparta.
M452 Disgrace and death of Pausanias.
M453 Fall of Themistocles. Cimon Death of Themistocles..
M454 Death of Aristides.
M455 Death of Xerxes.
M456 Rivalry between the Grecian States.
M457 Pre-eminently between Athens and Sparta.
M458 Opposition by Sparta to the fortifications of Athens.
M459 The city nevertheless fortified. The Peireus. Increase of the navy.
Confederacy of Delos.
M460 Confederacy of Delos.
M461 Change in the Athenian constitution.
M462 The political growth of Athens.
M463 The Confederate States.
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