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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

T^he Outlook Company

New York

T^he History Association

London

1904

Copyright, 1904,

By HENRY SMITH WILLIAMS.

All rights reserved.

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

(

ca.

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