The Story of Greece and Rome for boys and girls
- Автор: Macgregor Mary
- Год: 1914
- Язык: английский
- Жанр: Зарубежная литература для детей
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The Story of Greece: Told to Boys and Girls от Mary Macgregor
The Story of Rome, From the Earliest Times to the Death of Augustus, Told to Boys and Girls от Mary Esther Miller MacGregor
Wherever the Romans went they carried with them the habits and the culture of the people whom they had conquered. And the greatest and most precious thing the Greeks had to teach the world was, ‘the just consideration of the truth of things everywhere.’
INDEX
Achæans, the, 73.
Achilles, and Briseis the Fair-cheeked, 32;
fatal quarrel with Agamemnon, 34;
the horses of, 44; Hector slain by, 48 et seq.;
death of, 52.
Acrisius, king of Argos, 18;
killed by Perseus, 29.
Acropolis at Athens, the, 97.
Admetus, king, 186.
Ægis of Athens, the, 23, 30.
Ægospotami, disaster at, 261.
Æolians, the, 73.
Æschines, lawsuit against Demosthenes, 349.
Æschylus, 172, 200.
Agamemnon, king, 33, 34.
Agesilaus, king of Sparta, 278, 279.
Alcibiades, 232–236;
friendship with Socrates, 236, 238, 240, 243;
expedition to conquer Sicily, 244–248;
flight to Sparta, 247–248;
betrayal of Athenians to the Spartans, 248;
return to Athens, 255;
Antiochus’ disobedience, 258;
death of, 263.
Alexander the Great, at battle of Chæronea, 307;
and his horse Bucephalus, 309;
conquests in Greece, 312 et seq.;
and Diogenes, 312;
conquest of Persia, 314, 315 et seq.;
cutting of the Gordian knot, 318;
illness of, 319;
defeat of Darius at Issus, 322;
treatment of Darius and his wife and family, 323, 327;
siege of Tyre by, 325;
defeat of Darius at Gaugamela, 328;
burning of Persepolis by, 331;
pursuit of Darius, 334;
treatment of Philotas, 335;
slays his foster-brother, 336;
conquests in India, 338;
victory over King Porus, 338;
wounded at siege of the citadel of Malli, 342;
east and west united by, 345;
death of, 345.
Alexander, king of Thessaly, Pelopidas’ expedition against, 282.
Amphictyonic Council, the, 94.
Amphipolis, surrender of, 228.
Andromache and Hector, 41, 50, 51, 52.
Andromeda and the sea-monster, 26.
Antinous, 67.
Antiochus, 258.
Antipater, 350.
Aphrodite, 4, 40.
Apollo, 4, 11, 35, 46, 76, 79, 95;
and Hyacinthus, 16.
Arachne, story of, 13.
Archias, 273, 274, 275;
and Demosthenes, 350.
Archidamus, invasion of Attica by, 205;
siege of Plataea under, 210–213.
Arginusæ, battle of, 259.
Argos, war with Sparta, 232.
Argus, the hound, 64.
Aristagoras, 122, 123, 124, 126.
Aristides, 138, 140–144, 148, 168, 170, 179, 180, 185, 188.
Aristodemus, 89.
Aristogiton, 113.
Aristomenes and the fox, 91.
Aristophanes, 200, 234.
Aristotle, 311.
Artaphernes, 122, 123, 127, 129, 130.
Artaxerxes, 186, 193;
march of Cyrus against, 265;
Spartan expedition against, 269.
Artemisium, battle of, 161.
Athene, 4, 11, 12, 13, 22, 23, 30, 36, 41, 62, 65, 97, 196, 198.
Athenian Empire, foundation of, 178.
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.
Euripides, 200, 201, 235.
Europa, 15.
Eurybiades, 153, 161, 166, 167.
Eurymedon, 218, 219, 220, 221, 250, 251.
Gaugamela, battle of, 328.
Gordian knot, the, 318.
Gorgo, 127, 160.
Gorgons, the, 22.
Grææ, the, 23.
Granicus, battle of, 315.
Greece, 72.
Gylippus, 248, 249, 250, 252, 254.
Harmodius, 113.
Hecate, 8.
Hector, 39, 41, 46, 48, 51, 52.
Hecuba, 41, 50, 51.
Helen of Troy, 33, 53.
Hellespont, the scourging of the, 148.
Helots, the, 85, 190.
Hephæstion, 342, 345, 347.
Hephæstis, 11.
Hera, 3.
Hermes, 4, 23, 245.
Herodotus, 201.
Hipparchus, 113.
Hippias, 113, 132.
Histiaeus, 120, 121, 123, 129.
Homer, 32, 78.
Hyacinthus, story of, 16.
Icetes, 286, 289, 293.
Ictinus, 196, 201.
Iliad, The, 32.
Ionians, the, 73, 118.
—— revolt of, 123–130.
Ismenias, 270.
Lacedæmonians, the, 76.
Lamachus, 245, 247, 249.
Leonidas, king of Sparta, 153, 154, 155–158.
Leontiades, 270, 276.
Leuctra, battle of, 277–280.
Lotus-eaters, the, 55.
Lycurgus the lawgiver, 76, 78, 79, 80, 82, 87, 88.
Lysander, 258, 261, 263.
Mago, 294.
Mantinea, battle of, 233.
Marathon, battle of, 132, 134, 136.
Mardonius, 131, 145, 172, 175, 176.
Masistius, 174.
Medusa, 21, 22.
Menelaus, king, 33, 39, 53.
Megabetes, 123, 124.
Messenia, city of, 282.