213

SOCRATES AND ALCIBIADES 221

THE RETREAT OF THE TEN THOUSAND 231

THE RESCUE OF THEBES 245

THE HUMILIATION OF SPARTA 259

TIMOLEON, THE FAVORITE OF FORTUNE 271

THE SACRED WAR 288

ALEXANDER THE GREAT AND DARIUS 296

THE WORLD'S GREATEST ORATOR 305

THE OLYMPIC GAMES 315

PYRRHUS AND THE ROMANS 324

PHILOPOEMEN AND THE FALL OF SPARTA 334

THE DEATH-STRUGGLE OF GREECE 345

ZENOBIA AND LONGINUS 351

THE LITERARY GLORY OF GREECE 360

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

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A GREEK SHEPHERD, OLYMPIA _Frontispiece_.

PARTING OF HECTOR AND ANDROMACHE 15

OEDIPUS AND ANTIGONE 42

GRECIAN LADIES AT HOME 87

THE ACROPOLIS OF ATHENS 98

RUINS OF THE PARTHENON 130

THE PLACE OF ASSEMBLY OF THE ATHENIANS 145

THE VICTORS AT SALAMIS 160

ANCIENT ENTRANCE TO THE STADIUM, ATHENS 181

A REUNION AT THE HOUSE OF ASPASIA 190

PIRAEUS, THE PORT OF ATHENS 213

PRISON OF SOCRATES, ATHENS 229

GATE OF THE AGORA, OR OIL MARKET, ATHENS 255

BED OF THE RIVER KLADEOS 289

THE DEATH OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT 300

THE MODERN OLYMPIC GAMES IN THE STADIUM 316

THE THEATRE OF BACCHUS, ATHENS 322

REMAINS OF THE TEMPLE OF MINERVA, CORINTH 345

THE RUINS OF PALMYRA 358

ALONG THE COAST OF GREECE 362

_HOW TROY WAS TAKEN._

The far-famed Helen, wife of King Menelaus of Sparta, was the most
beautiful woman in the world. And from her beauty and faithlessness came
the most celebrated of ancient wars, with death and disaster to numbers
of famous heroes and the final ruin of the ancient city of Troy. The
story of these striking events has been told only in poetry. We propose
to tell it again in sober prose.

But warning must first be given that Helen and the heroes of the Trojan
war dwelt in the mist-land of legend and tradition, that cl