The Story of GreecePutnam, 1892 - 515 Seiten |
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Achaians Achilles Ægæan Alcibiades allies ancient Apollo Argos Aristides army Asia Minor Astyages Athenians Athens Attica Barbarians battle beautiful became Boeotia called chariot child Cleisthenes coast command Corinth Croesus Cronus Cyrus Daríus death Delphi Demeter Dionysus Dorians dream earth enemies Euboea father fell fight fleet fought Gæa gave glory goddess gods golden Greece Greeks hand Harpagus heaven Hellas Hellenes Hellespont Helots Herodotus horses hundred Ionian island king Lacedæmon Lacedæmonians land Leonidas lived look loved Lycurgus Mardonius mighty Miletus mountains never nians noble Odysseus Olympus oracle Patroclus Pausanias Peloponnesian Peloponnesus Pericles Persephoné Persians Pisistratus Poseidon sail Salamis seized sent shining ships side Socrates Solon Spartans stood story tell temple Thebans Thebes thee Themistocles Theseus Thessaly thing thou thought Thucydides told took town Trojan Troy tyrant victory wonderful words Xerxes youths Zeus
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 164 - Thence what the lofty grave tragedians taught In chorus or iambic, teachers best Of moral prudence, with delight received In brief sententious precepts, while they treat Of fate, and chance, and change in human life, High actions, and high passions best describing : Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democratic, Shook the arsenal, and fulmined over Greece To Macedon and Artaxerxes...
Seite 164 - Where on the ^Egean shore a city stands, Built nobly, pure the air, and light the soil ; Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence, native to famous wits Or hospitable, in her sweet recess, City or suburban, studious walks and shades. See there the olive grove of Academe, Plato's retirement, where the Attic bird Trills her thick- warbled notes the summer long ; There flowery hill Hymettus, with the sound Of bees...
Seite 164 - Whose poem Phoebus challenged for his own : Thence what the lofty grave tragedians taught In chorus or iambic, teachers best Of moral prudence, with delight received In brief sententious precepts, while they treat Of fate, and chance, and change in human life; High actions, and high passions best describing...
Seite 264 - Athenian, had come and seen all his splendour, and made light of it; and how whatever he had said to him had fallen out exactly as he foreshowed, although it was nothing that especially concerned him, but applied to all mankind alike, and most to those who seemed to themselves happy. Meanwhile, as he thus spoke, the pile was lighted, and the outer portion began to blaze. Then Cyrus, hearing from the interpreters what Croesus had said, relented, bethinking himself that he too was a man, and that it...
Seite 337 - Upon this, Xerxes, who had no means of surmising the truth— namely, that the Spartans were preparing to do or die manfully— but thought it laughable that they should be engaged in such employments, sent and called to his presence Demaratus the son of Ariston, who still remained with the army.
Seite 515 - PUTNAM'S SONS take pleasure in announcing that they have in course of publication a series of historical studies, intended to present in a graphic manner the stories of the different nations that have attained prominence in history.
Seite 172 - Argive men stood thick around the car and extolled the vast strength of the youths ; and the Argive women extolled the mother who was blessed with such a pair of sons ; and the mother herself, overjoyed at the deed and at the praises it had won, standing straight before the image, besought the goddess to bestow on Cleobis and Bito, the sons •who had so mightily honoured her, the highest blessing to which mortals can attain.
Seite 514 - Nelson, and the Naval Supremacy of England. By W. CLARK RUSSELL, author of " The Wreck of the Grosvenor,
Seite 414 - For a while physicians, in ignorance of the nature of the disease, sought to apply remedies; but it was in vain, and they themselves were among the first victims, because they oftenest came into contact with it. No human art was of any avail, and as to supplications in temples, inquiries of oracles, and the like, they were utterly useless, and at last men were overpowered by the calamity and gave them all up.