The Story of Greece and Rome for boys and girls
- Автор: Macgregor Mary
- Год: 1914
- Язык: английский
- Жанр: Зарубежная литература для детей
Электронная книга - «The Story of Greece and Rome for boys and girls». Краткое содержание книги:
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
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LVI.
THE BOY HANNIBAL
172
LVII.
HANNIBAL PREPARES TO INVADE ITALY
176
LVIII.
HANNIBAL CROSSES THE ALPS
178
LIX.
THE BATTLE OF TREBIA
183
LX.
THE BATTLE OF LAKE TRASIMENUS
187
LXI.
HANNIBAL OUTWITS FABIUS
192
LXII.
FABIUS WINS TWO VICTORIES
197
LXIII.
THE BATTLE OF CANNÆ
200
LXIV.
THE DESPAIR OF ROME
203
LXV.
THE DEFEAT OF HASDRUBAL
208
LXVI.
LIVIUS AND CLAUDIUS ENJOY A TRIUMPH
213
LXVII.
THE CAPTURE OF NEW CARTHAGE
215
LXVIII.
SCIPIO SAILS TO AFRICA
220
LXIX.
THE ROMANS SET FIRE TO THE CAMP OF THE NUMIDIANS
223
LXX.
HANNIBAL LEAVES ITALY
226
LXXI.
THE BATTLE OF ZAMA
229
LXXII.
SCIPIO RECEIVES A TRIUMPH
231
LXXIII.
FLAMININUS IS COVERED WITH GARLANDS
233
LXXIV.
THE DEATH OF HANNIBAL
238
LXXV.
THE HATRED OF CATO FOR CARTHAGE
243
LXXVI.
THE STERN DECREE
246
LXXVII.
THE CARTHAGINIANS DEFEND THEIR CITY
249
LXXVIII.
THE DESTRUCTION OF CARTHAGE
253
LXXIX.
CORNELIA, THE MOTHER OF THE GRACCHI
258
LXXX.
TIBERIUS AND HIS FRIEND OCTAVIUS
261
LXXXI.
THE DEATH OF TIBERIUS GRACCHUS
266
LXXXII.
THE DEATH OF GAIUS GRACCHUS
269
LXXXIII.
THE GOLD OF JUGURTHA
278
LXXXIV.
GAIUS MARIUS WINS THE NOTICE OF SCIPIO AFRICANUS
281
LXXXV.
GAIUS MARIUS BECOMES COMMANDER OF THE ARMY
283
LXXXVI.
THE CAPTURE OF JUGURTHA’S TREASURE TOWNS
287
LXXXVII.
THE CAPTURE OF JUGURTHA
290
LXXXVIII.
JUGURTHA IS BROUGHT TO ROME IN CHAINS
294
LXXXIX.
MARIUS CONQUERS THE TEUTONES
297
XC.
MARIUS MOCKS THE AMBASSADORS OF THE CIMBRI
303
XCI.
METELLUS IS DRIVEN FROM ROME
307
XCII.
SULLA ENTERS ROME WITH HIS TROOPS
311
XCIII.
THE FLIGHT OF MARIUS
315
XCIV.
THE GAUL DARES NOT KILL GAIUS MARIUS
318
XCV.
MARIUS RETURNS TO ROME
320
XCVI.
THE ORATOR ARISTION
325
XCVII.
SULLA BESIEGES ATHENS
328
XCVIII.
SULLA SAVES ROME FROM THE SAMNITES
331
XCIX.
THE PROSCRIPTIONS OF SULLA
334
C.
THE GLADIATORS’ REVOLT
337
CI.
THE PIRATES
341
CII.
POMPEY GOES TO WAR WITH MITHRIDATES
345
CIII.
CICERO DISCOVERS THE CATILINARIAN CONSPIRACY
350
CIV.
THE DEATH OF THE CONSPIRATORS
353
CV.
JULIUS CÆSAR IS CAPTURED BY PIRATES
356
CVI.
CÆSAR GIVES UP HIS TRIUMPH
360
CVII.
CÆSAR PRAISES HIS TENTH LEGION
363
CVIII.
CÆSAR WINS A GREAT VICTORY OVER THE NERVII
367
CIX.
CÆSAR INVADES BRITAIN
370
CX.
CÆSAR CROSSES THE RUBICON
374
CXI.
CÆSAR AND THE PILOT
378
CXII.
THE FLIGHT OF POMPEY
381
CXIII.
CATO DIES RATHER THAN YIELD TO CÆSAR
386
CXIV.
CÆSAR IS LOADED WITH HONOURS
389
CXV.
THE NOBLES PLOT AGAINST CÆSAR
392
CXVI.
THE ASSASSINATION OF CÆSAR
396
CXVII.
BRUTUS SPEAKS TO THE CITIZENS
399
CXVIII.
MARK ANTONY SPEAKS TO THE CITIZENS
402
CXIX.
THE SECOND TRIUMVIRATE
405
CXX.
THE BATTLE OF PHILIPPI
408
CXXI.
THE DEATH OF BRUTUS
411
CXXII.
ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA
413
CXXIII.
THE BATTLE OF ACTIUM
418
CXXIV.
ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA DIE
421
CXXV.
THE EMPEROR AUGUSTUS
425
INDEX
427
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
Verginius left his beautiful young daughter Verginia in the care of her nurse,
Frontispiece
AT PAGE
A she-wolf, coming to the edge of the river to drink, heard their cries,
6
When she saw Horatius wearing on his shoulders the cloak of her betrothed, she broke into bitter sobs,
30
She carried in her arms nine books,
46
‘O my mother, thou hast saved Rome, but thou hast lost thy son,’
72
Seated in chairs of ivory, sat a number of strange, venerable old men,
100
The youth laid the arms he had taken from his foe at his father’s feet,
120
The armour of Pyrrhus was richer and more beautiful than that of his soldiers,
146
‘I carry here peace and war, choose, men of Carthage, which ye will,’
176
‘We are beaten, O Romans, in a great battle, our army is destroyed,’
190
A messenger was seen spurring his horse toward the city,
213
His progress was as that of a king,
232
So Carthage was given to the flames,
258
Here it would be possible, he thought, to hold the enemy at bay,
276
Jugurtha came to the tent of his father-in-law unarmed,
292
Gaius Marius sitting in exile among the ruins of Carthage,
320
Lists of those who were doomed were hung up in the Forum,
336
The following morning Cicero made another speech against Catiline,
352
Looking down upon the stream, he stood awhile deep in thought,
378
Here, sheltered by steep cliffs, he sat down to rest,
412
THE STORY OF ROME
CHAPTER I
THE LADY ROMA
Long, long years ago, Troy, one of the great cities in Asia Minor, was taken by the Greeks.
Many mighty Trojans had defended their city well, and among them all none had fought more bravely than the prince Æneas.
But when Æneas saw that the Greeks had set fire to the city, he fled, carrying, it is said, his father on his shoulders, and grasping by the hand his son Ascanius.
Moreover, so precious to him was the sacred image of the goddess Pallas, that he saved it from the burning city.
The gods, pleased with his reverence, helped him in his flight by building a ship. So when Æneas reached the sea he at once embarked in it, with his followers and their wives, and sailed away to seek for a new land in which to build a new city.
As the Trojans sailed they saw a bright star shining above them. Day and night the star was always to be seen, showing the seafarers the direction in which to steer.