TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES: —Obvious print and punctuation errors were corrected. —This work is divided into three volumes, all of them available on PG; index is on third volume. It has been split replacing every item in the volume where they belong. A full version of index has been mantained at the end of third volume. HISTORICAL PARALLELS IN THREE VOLUMES VOL. I. LONDON: CHARLES KNIGHT & Co., LUDGATE STREET. 1846. LONDON: PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, STAMFORD STREET. CONTENTS. Page INTRODUCTION 5 CHAPTER I. Mythic period of Grecian history—Savage state of Greece compared with that of Scandinavia—Anecdotes of Northern warriors—Hercules—Theseus—State of Greece in their time, illustrated by that of England subsequent to the Conquest—Argonautic expedition—Theban war—Story of Don Pedro of Castile—Trojan war 11 CHAPTER II. Aristomenes—Hereward le Wake—Wallace 40 CHAPTER III. Treatment of Prisoners of War—Crœsus—Roman Triumphs—Sapor and Valerian—Imprisonment of Bajazet—His treatment of the Marshal Boucicaut and his Companions—Changes produced by the advance of Civilization—Effect of Feudal Institutions—Anecdote from Froissart—Conduct of the Black Prince towards the Constable Du Guesclin and the King of France 77 CHAPTER IV. Tyranny of Cambyses, terminating in madness—of Caligula—of the Emperor Paul 114 CHAPTER V. Early changes in the Athenian constitution—Murder of Cylon—Fatalism—Usurpation of Pisistratus—His policy—Hippias and Hipparchus—Conspiracy of Harmodius and Aristogiton—Expulsion of Hippias—Cosmo de’ Medici, Lorenzo and Giuliano de’ Medici—Conspiracy of the Pazzi 153 CHAPTER VI. Invasion of Scythia by Darius—Destruction of Crassus and his army by the Parthians—Retreat of Antony—Retreat and death of Julian—Retreat from Moscow 190 INDEX 239 HISTORICAL PARALLELS. INTRODUCTION.