Athenians, the, taking of Salamis by, 106; alliance with Ionians against Darius, 127; defeat of Persian army at Marathon, 134; victory in bay of Pylos over the Spartans, 220; surrender of Spartans at Sphacteria to, 221; invasion of Bœotia by, 225; defeat at Syracuse, 249, 252–254; defeat by Spartans under Lysander, 259. Athens, city of, 12, 196–199; war with Dorians, 97; oligarchic government of, 98; three parties of, 100; Persian attack on, 137; sea-power of, 140, 184, 194; war with Sparta, 195; great men of, 201; jealousy of Sparta causing Peloponnesian war, 202 _et seq._; revolt of Mytilene against, 214; second Peloponnesian war, 233; surrender to the Spartans, 261–263. Atlas, 26. Attica, Spartan invasion of, 205. Babylon, taken by Alexander the Great, 331. Bessus, 334, 335. Bœotia, invasion of, 225. Bœotian League, the, 203. Bow of Odysseus, the, 67. Brasidas the Spartan, 219, 225, 226–231. Bridge of Boats, Darius’, 118. Briseis the Fair-cheeked, 32. Bucephalus, 309, 329, 340. Callistratus, 301. Carthaginians, the, expedition against Syracuse, 286, 288, 289; defeated by Timoleon at Crimisus, 296. Cassiopeia, 27. Cecrops, 11. Chæronea, battle of, 307. Charilaus, 77, 80. Charon, 273, 274, 275, 276. Cimon, 179, 189–193. Clearchus, 264, 265, 267. Cleisthenes, 114, 115–116. Cleombrotus, 279, 280. Cleomenes and Aristagoras, 126. Cleon, 208, 215, 216, 221, 222–224, 228–231. Clitus, 336. Codrus, the last king of Athens, 97. Conon, 259, 262. Conspiracy of the Seven Thebans, 273. Corinth, the two brothers of, 286. Crimisus, battle of, 296. Croesus, king of Lydia, 103, 104, 105. Cyclopes, the, 56. Cylon, 100. Cynoscephalæ, battle of, 284. Cyrus, king of Persia, and Croesus, 105. ---- march against king Artaxerxes, 264–268. Damocles, 314. Danae, story of, 18. Darius, king of Persia, war against Greece, 118; Histiaeus rewarded by, 121; Ionian rebellion against, 124; expedition against Athens, 131; defeat at Marathon, 134; death of, 139. ---- king of Persia, wars with Alexander the Great, 315, 319; defeat near the pass of Issus, 321; defeat at battle of Gaugamela, 328; retreat and death, 334. Delian League, the, 178. Delium, defeat of Athenians at, 226. Demeter, story of, 4, 6. Demosthenes, 218, 219, 222, 223, 250, 251, 252–254, 307, 308, 311, 313, 349. Diodotus, 216. Diogenes, 312. Dionysius of Syracuse, 286, 289. Dorians, the, 73, 76. Draco, code of laws of, 101. Dryads, the, 1. Elpinice and Pericles, 195. Epaminondas, 93, 269, 271–272, 277, 280–285, 306. Ephialtes the treacherous Greek, 157, 159. Ephialtes the statesman, 190, 191. Epirus, 72. Epitades, 219, 221, 223. Erechtheum, the, 197. Eros, 4. Eucles, 228. Euaeus the swineherd, 64, 66, 67.