This series has five easy 5 minute installments.IntroductionBefore dawn on the morning of April 19, 1906, the great metropolis of America's
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Syracuse Defeats Athens – 7
Today's installment concludes Syracuse Defeats Athens,our selection by Sir Edward S. Creasy.If you have journeyed through all of the
Syracuse Defeats Athens – 6
The attention of all Greece was now fixed on Syracuse, and every enemy of Athens felt the importance of the opportunity now offered of checking her
Syracuse Defeats Athens – 5
We Athenians sailed to Sicily with the design of subduing, first the Greek cities there, and next those in Italy.Continuing Syracuse Defeats
Syracuse Defeats Athens – 4
The fleet consisted of one hundred and thirty-four war-galleys, with a multitude of storeships.Continuing Syracuse Defeats Athens,our selection
Syracuse Defeats Athens – 3
A confederacy was formed of five-sixths of the continental Greeks, all animated by anxious jealousy and bitter hatred of Athens.Continuing Syracuse
Syracuse Defeats Athens – 2
Athens was now staking the flower of her forces, and the accumulated fruits of seventy years of glory, on one bold throw for the dominion of the
Syracuse Defeats Athens
This series has seven easy 5 minute installments.IntroductionThat great writer of the history of the Romans, Thomas Arnold, says of the defeat
Herodotus Book II, Verses 174-End
Solon the Athenian received from Egypt this law and had it enacted for the Athenians.Translated by George C. Macaulay -- our special project