n to the present day, is an essential attainment for every
well-informed man; a far more essential attainment, in fact, for the
general reader, than to discover now, at this late period, what the
actual facts were which gave origin to the fable.

In writing this series of histories, therefore, it has been the aim of
the author not to _correct_ the ancient story, but to repeat it as it
stands, cautioning the reader, however, whenever occasion requires,
not to suppose that the marvelous narratives are historically true.

CONTENTS.

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I. OLYMPIAS AND ANTIPATER 13

II. CASSANDER 40

III. EARLY LIFE OF PYRRHUS 64

IV. WARS IN MACEDON 86

V. WAR IN ITALY 111

VI. NEGOTIATIONS 134

VII. THE SICILIAN CAMPAIGN 159

VIII. THE RETREAT FROM ITALY 188

IX. THE FAMILY OF LYSIMACHUS 210

X. THE RECONQUEST OF MACEDON 235

XI. SPARTA 249

XII. THE LAST CAMPAIGN OF PYRRHUS 268

ENGRAVINGS.

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THE ROMAN ENCAMPMENT _Frontispiece_.

MAP--EMPIRE OF PYRRHUS 12

EURYDICE IN PRISON 57

MAP--GRECIAN EMPIRE 110

THE TROPHIES 132

THE ELEPHANT CONCEALED 145

THE ASSAULT 177

THE ROUT 206

THE FALLEN ELEPHANT 223

THE CHARGE 283

THE DEATH OF PYRRHUS 300

[Illustration: MAP--EMPIRE OF PYRRHUS.]

PYRRHUS.

CHAPTER I.

OLYMPIAS AND ANTIPATER.

B.C. 336-321

Situation of the country of Epirus.--Epirus and Macedon.--Their
political connections.--Ol