CONTENTS. CHAP. PAGE I. Olympus 11 II. Light and Dark 18 III. The Peopling of Greece 26 IV. The Hero Perseus 35 V. The Labours of Hercules 42 VI. The Argonauts 51 VII. The Success of the Argonauts 59 VIII. The Choice of Paris 68 IX. The Siege of Troy 76 X. The Wanderings of Ulysses 84 XI. The Doom of the Atrides 94 XII. After the Heroic Age 102 XIII. Lycurgus and the Laws of Sparta. B.C. 110 884–668 XIV. Solon and the Laws of Athens. B.C. 594–546 118 XV. Pisistratus and his Sons. B.C. 558–499 126 XVI. The Battle of Marathon. B.C. 490 134 XVII. The Expedition of Xerxes. B.C. 480 142 XVIII. The Battle of Platæa. B.C. 479–460 151 XIX. The Age of Pericles. B.C. 464–429 159 XX. The Expedition to Sicily. B.C. 415–413 167 XXI. The Shore of the Goat’s River. B.C. 406–402 174 XXII. The Retreat of the Ten Thousand. B.C. 181 402–399 XXIII. The Death of Socrates. B.C. 399 189 XXIV. The Supremacy of Sparta. B.C. 396 196 XXV. The Two Theban Friends. B.C. 387–362 203 XXVI. Philip of Macedon. B.C. 364 210 XXVII. The Youth of Alexander. B.C. 356–334 217 XXVIII. The Expedition to Persia. B.C. 334 224 XXIX. Alexander’s Eastern Conquests. B.C. 331–328 231 XXX. The End of Alexander. B.C. 328 238 XXXI. The Last Struggles of Athens. B.C. 334–311 245 XXXII. The Four New Kingdoms. B.C. 311–287 252 XXXIII. Pyrrhus, King of Epirus. B.C. 287 258 XXXIV. Aratus and the Achaian League. B.C. 267 265 XXXV. Agis and the Revival of Sparta. B.C. 272 244–236 XXXVI. Cleomenes and the Fall of Sparta. B.C. 279 236–222 XXXVII. Philopœmen, the Last of the Greeks. B.C. 286 236–184 XXXVIII. The Fall of Greece. B.C. 189–146 293 XXXIX. The Gospel in Greece. B.C. 146–A.D. 60 300