From the publisher:
Stories from the history of ancient Greece beginning with mythical and legendary stories of gods and heroes and ending with the conquests of Alexander the Great. Gives short accounts of battles and sieges, and of the men who made Greece a great nation.
Table of Contents:
1. Wonderland
2. The Great God Pan
3. The Six Pomegranate Seeds
4. The Birth of Athene
5. The Two Weavers
6. The Purple Flowers
7. Danae and Her Little Son
8. The Quest of Perseus
9. Andromeda and the Sea-Monster
10. Acrisius Is Killed by Perseus
11. Achilles and Briseis the Faircheeked
12. Menelaus and Paris Do Battle
13. Hector and Andromache
14. The Horses of Achilles
15. The Death of Hector
16. Polyphemus the Giant
17. Odysseus Escapes from the Cave
18. Odysseus Returns to Ithaca
19. Argus the Hound Dies
20. The Bow of Odysseus
21. The Land of Hellas
22. Lycurgus and His Little Nephew
23. Lycurgus Returns to Sparta
24. The Training of the Spartans
25. The Helots
26. Aristomenes and the Fox
27. The Olympian Games
28. The Last King of Athens
29. Cylon Fails To Make Himself Tyrant
30. Solon Frees the Slaves
31. The Athenians Take Salamis
32. Pisistratus Becomes Tyrant
33. Harmodius and Aristogiton
34. The Law of Ostracism
35. The Bridge of Boats
36. Darius Rewards Histiaeus
37. Histiaeus Shaves the Head of His Slave
38. Sardis Is Destroyed
39. The Sandal Sewn by Histiaeus
40. Darius Demands Earth and Water
41. The Battle of Marathon
42. Miltiades Sails to the Island of Paros
43. Aristides Is Ostracised
44. The Dream of Xerxes
45. Xerxes Orders the Hellespont To Be Scourged
46. "The Bravest Men of All Hellas"
47. The Battle of Thermopylae
48. The Battle of Artemisium
49. Themistocles Urges Eurybiades To Stay at Salamis
50. Themistocles Tricks the Admirals
51. The Battle of Salamis
52. The Battle of Plataea
53. The Delian League
54. Themistocles Deceives the Spartans
55. Themistocles Is Ostracised
56. The Eloquence of Pericles
57. Pericles and Elpinice
58. The City of Athens
59. Great Men of Athens
60. The Thebans Attack the Plataeans
61. Attica Is Invaded by the Spartans
62. The Last Words of Pericles
63. The Siege of Plataea
64. The Sentence of Death
65. Brasidas Loses His Shield
66. The Spartans Surrender
67. Brasidas the Spartan
68. Amphipolis Surrenders to Brasidas
69. Alcibiades the Favourite of Athens
70. Socrates the Philosopher
71. Alcibiades Praises Socrates
72. The Images of Hermes Are Destroyed
73. Alcibiades Escapes to Sparta
74. The Siege of Syracuse
75. The Athenian Army Is Destroyed
76. Alcibiades Returns to Athens
77. Antiochus Disobeys Alcibiades
78. The Walls of Athens Are Destroyed
79. The March of the Ten Thousand
80. Pelopidas and Epaminondas
81. The Seven Conspirators
82. The Battle of Leuctra
83. The Death of Epaminondas
84. The Two Brothers
85. Timoleon Sends Dionysius to Corinth
86. Icetes Tries To Slay Timoleon
87. The Battle of Crimisus
88. Demosthenes Wishes To Become an Orator
89. Demosthenes the Greatest Orator of Athens
90. The Sacred War
91. Alexander and Bucephalus
92. Alexander and Diogenes
93. The Battle of Granicus
94. The Gordian Knot
95. Darius Gallops from the Battlefield
96. Tyre Is Stormed by Alexander
97. The Battle of Gaugamela
98. Alexander Burns Persepolis
99. Alexander Slays His Foster-Brother
100. Porus and His Elephant
101. Alexander Is Wounded
102. The Death of Alexander
103. Demosthenes in the Temple of Poseidon
