Readings in Ancient History: Greece and the EastAllyn and Bacon, 1912 - 405 Seiten |
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2d series Achæans Agamemnon Ahura-Mazda Alexander allies ancient Apollo Archon Aristagoras army Assyria Athenians Athens Babylon Babylonians Barachiel barbarians Bardiya battle Boeotia Bohn Translation brought called Cambyses century B.C. chap chariot Cleomenes Clisthenes conquest Cretan Croesus Cyrus Darius the King death Delphi Demosthenes earth Egypt Egyptian enemy Eurybiades father fight friends gates Gaumata gave give given gods gold Greece Greeks hand hast heart Hellas Hellenes Herodotus Homeric honor horses Hydarnes hymn Inscription king my lord Lacedæmonians land lived Marduk Medes mighty Nabonidus Nidintabelus Nile noble Odysseus oracle palace Pausanias Pericles Persians Polemarch Polycrates sacrifice Salamis Says Darius scepter sent ships side silver slave slew Socrates spake Spartan spear stood story temple Thebans Thebes thee Themistocles things thou art Thucydides Tishtrya took tribes troops unto victory wall whole Xerxes Zeus
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Seite 247 - ... —either death is a state of nothingness and utter unconsciousness, or, as men say, there is a change and migration of the soul from this world to another.
Seite 45 - And I will give thee the treasures of darkness, And hidden riches of secret places, That thou mayest know that I, the Lord, Which call thee by thy name, Am the God of Israel. For Jacob my servant's sake, And Israel mine elect, I have even called thee by thy name : I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not known me.
Seite 228 - ... not possible that the spectators on the shore should all receive the same impression of it. Being quite close and having different points of view, they would some of them see their own ships victorious ; their courage would then revive, and they would earnestly call upon the Gods not to take from them their hope of deliverance. But others, who saw their ships worsted, cried and shrieked aloud, and were by the sight alone more utterly unnerved than the defeated combatants themselves.
Seite 115 - When Amasis had read the letter of Polycrates, he perceived that ' it does not belong to man to save his fellow-man from the fate which is in store for him; likewise he felt certain that Polycrates would end ill, as he prospered in everything, even finding what he had thrown away.
Seite 151 - Safe shall the wooden wall continue for thee and thy children. Wait not the tramp of the horse, nor the footmen mightily moving Over the land, but turn your back to the foe, and retire ye.
Seite 170 - ... that either Sparta must be overthrown by the barbarians, or one of her kings must perish. The prophecy was delivered in hexameter verse, and ran thus: Oh! ye men who dwell in the streets of broad Lacedaemon, Either your glorious town shall be sacked by the children of Perseus, Or, in...
Seite 138 - For the man on whom the lot fell to be polemarch at Athens was entitled to give his vote with the ten generals, since anciently the Athenians allowed him an equal right of voting with them. The polemarch at this juncture was Callimachus of Aphidnae ; to him, therefore, Miltiades went and said :
Seite 244 - ... him. There is Gorgias of Leontium, and Prodicus of Ceos, and Hippias of Elis, who go the round of the cities, and are able to persuade the young men to leave their own citizens by whom they might be taught for nothing, and come to them whom they not only pay, but are thankful if they may be allowed to pay them.
Seite 112 - Scarcely, indeed, can any man unite all these advantages: as there is no country which contains within it all that it needs, but each, while it possesses some things, lacks others, and the best country is that which contains the most; so no single human being is complete in every respect — something is always lacking. He who unites the greatest number of advantages, and retaining them to the day of his death, then dies peaceably, that man alone, sire, is, in my judgment, entitled to bear the name...
Seite 111 - Now the oxen did not come home from the field in time: so the youths, fearful of being too late, put the yoke on their own necks, and themselves drew the car in which their mother rode. Five and forty furlongs did they draw her, and stopped before the temple. This deed of theirs was witnessed by the whole assembly of worshipers, and then their life closed in the best possible way.