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Title: The Historians' History of the World in Twenty-Five Volumes, Volume 4
Greece to the Roman Conquest
Author: Various
Editor: Henry Smith Williams
Release Date: September 6, 2017 [EBook #55497]
Language: English
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THE HISTORIANS’ HISTORY OF THE WORLD
GROTE
THE HISTORIANS’
HISTORY
OF THE WORLD
A comprehensive narrative of the rise and development of nations
as recorded by over two thousand of the great writers of
all ages: edited, with the assistance of a distinguished
board of advisers and contributors,
by
HENRY SMITH WILLIAMS, LL.D.
IN TWENTY-FIVE VOLUMES
VOLUME IV—GREECE TO THE ROMAN CONQUEST
The Outlook Company
New York
The History Association
London
1904
Copyright, 1904,
By HENRY SMITH WILLIAMS.
Press of J. J. Little & Co.
New York, U. S. A.
Contributors, and Editorial Revisers.
Prof. Adolf Erman, University of Berlin.
Prof. Joseph Halévy, College of France.
Prof. Thomas K. Cheyne, Oxford University.
Prof. Andrew C. McLaughlin, University of Michigan.
Prof. David H. Müller, University of Vienna.
Prof. Alfred Rambaud, University of Paris.
Prof. Eduard Meyer, University of Berlin.
Dr. James T. Shotwell, Columbia University.
Prof. Theodor Nöldeke, University of Strasburg.
Prof. Albert B. Hart, Harvard University.
Dr. Paul Brönnle, Royal Asiatic Society.
Dr. James Gairdner, C.B., London.
Prof. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Möllendorff, University of Berlin.
Prof. H. Marnali, University of Budapest.
Dr. G. W. Botsford, Columbia University.
Prof. Julius Wellhausen, University of Göttingen.
Prof. Franz R. von Krones, University of Graz.
Prof. Wilhelm Soltau, Zabern University.
Prof. R. W. Rogers, Drew Theological Seminary.
Prof. A. Vambéry, University of Budapest.
Prof. Otto Hirschfeld, University of Berlin.
Baron Bernardo di San Severino Quaranta, London.
Prof. F. York Powell, Oxford University.
Dr. John P. Peters, New York.
Dr. S. Rappoport, School of Oriental Languages, Paris.
Prof. Hermann Diels, University of Berlin.
Prof. C. W. C. Oman, Oxford University.
Prof. I. Goldziher, University of Vienna.
Prof. E. C. Fleming, University of West Virginia.
Prof. R. Koser, University of Berlin.
CONTENTS
VOLUME IV
GREECE
PAGE
Introductory Essay. The Evolution of Greek Philosophy.
By Dr. Hermann Diels
xiii
CHAPTER XXXVII
The Reign of Terror in Athens
(404-403
B.C.
)
1
Lysander,
2
. Cruelties of the Thirty,
3
. The Sycophants,
4
. The revolt of Thrasybulus,
10
.
CHAPTER XXXVIII
The Democracy Restored
(403-400
B.C.
)
16
The end of Alcibiades,
23
. Life at Athens,
25
. Aristophanes,
27
. Euripides,
30
.
CHAPTER XXXIX
Socrates and the Sophists
(
425-399
B.C.
)
33
The prosecution of Socrates,
36
. Plato’s account of the last hours of Socrates,
39
. Grote’s estimate of Socrates,
45
.
CHAPTER XL
The Retreat of the Ten Thousand
(404-399
B.C.
)
49
The affairs of Persia,
49
. Xenophon’s account of Cunaxa,
53
. The retreat,
59
. Xenophon’s picture of the hardships,
61
. End of the march,
63
. The meaning of Xenophon’s feat,
64
.
CHAPTER XLI
The Spartan Supremacy
(480-240
B.C.
)
66
Grote’s comparison of Spartan and Athenian rule,
72
. Harshness of the Spartan hegemony,
76
. Degeneracy of Sparta,
77
.
CHAPTER XLII
Sparta in Asia
(400-394
B.C.
)
82
War of Lacedæmon and Elis,
86
. Cinadon’s plot,
90
. Agesilaus in Asia,
91
. Persian gold,
95
. War rises in Greece,
96
. Lysander’s plot,
99
. Agesilaus recalled,
101
.
CHAPTER XLIII
The Corinthian War
(394-387
B.C.
)
104
Battle of Cnidus,
107
. Battle of Coronea,
108
. Land affairs of the Corinthian War,
111
. The great deeds of Conon,
115
. Conon rebuilds the Long Walls,
117
. The embassy of Antalcidas,
119
. The King’s Peace,
123
.
CHAPTER XLIV
The Rise of Thebes
(387-371
B.C.
)
126
Mantinea crushed,
127
. The Olynthian War,
129
. The surprise of Thebes,
130
. Fate of Evagoras and the Asiatic Greeks,
133
. The revolt of Thebes,
135
. The second Athenian League,
140
. Corcyra,
144
. The trial of Timotheus,
148
. The congress at Sparta,
151
. Athens abandons Thebes,
153
.
CHAPTER XLV
The Day of Epaminondas
(371-367
B.C.
)
154
Sparta invades Bœotia,
156
. Battle of Leuctra,
157
. Significance of Leuctra,
159
. Jason of Thessaly,
160
. Von Stern on the Theban policy,
165
. A congress at Athens,
167
. Mantinea restored,
167
. The Arcadian Revolution,
169
. Spartan intolerance of cowardice,
171
