Category: History - European
Spartan empire.—March of the Ten Thousand Greeks.—Persian kings—Xerxes—Artaxerxes Longimanus.—Darius Nothus.—Cyrus the younger in Ionia—his vigorous operations against Athens.—Youth and education of Cyrus.—His esteem for the Greeks—his hopes of the crown.—Death of Darius Nothu...
Spartan empire.—March of the Ten Thousand Greeks.—Persian kings—Xerxes—Artaxerxes Longimanus.—Darius Nothus.—Cyrus the younger in Ionia—his vigorous operations against Athens.—Y...
2. CHAPTER LXX.Dismay of the Greeks on learning the death of Cyrus. Klearchus offers the throne to Ariæus.—Artaxerxes summons the Greeks to surrender—their reply—language of Phalinus.—Ariæus r...
3. CHAPTER LXXI.Greek cities on the Euxine—Sinôpê with her colonies Kerasus, Kotyôra, and Trapezus.—Indigenous inhabitants—their relations with the Greek colonists.—Feelings of the Greeks on th...
4. CHAPTER LXXII.Sequel of Grecian affairs generally—resumed.—Spartan empire—how and when it commenced.—Oppression and suffering of Athens under the Thirty.—Alteration of Grecian feeling towards...
5. CHAPTER LXXIII.Triumphant position of Sparta at the close of the war—introduction of a large sum of gold and silver by Lysander—opposed by some of the Ephors.—The introduction of money was onl...
6. CHAPTER LXXIV.War in Central Greece against Sparta—called the Corinthian war.—Relations of Sparta with the neighboring states and with her allies after the accession of Agesilaus. Discontent...
7. CHAPTER LXXV.Large plans of Konon—organization of a mercenary force at Corinth.—Naval conflicts of the Corinthians and Lacedæmonians, in the Corinthian Gulf.—Land-warfare—the Lacedæmonians e...
8. CHAPTER LXIX.In my last volume, I brought down the History of Grecian affairs to the close of the Peloponnesian war, including a description of the permanent loss of imperial power, the seve...
9. part x, B. iii; West Asien, p. 14-17, with the elaboratediscussion, p. 972-978, in the same volume; also the work of Mr. Ainsworth above cited, p. 70. The situation of Thapsakus is correctly placed in Colonel Chesney’s last work (Eup...
10. CHAPTER LXX.The first triumphant feeling of the Greek troops at Kunaxa was exchanged, as soon as they learnt the death of Cyrus, for dismay and sorrow; accompanied by unavailing repentance...
11. CHAPTER LXXI.We now commence a third act in the history of this memorable body of men. After having followed them from Sardis to Kunaxa as mercenaries to procure the throne for Cyrus,—then f...
12. CHAPTER LXXII.The three preceding Chapters have been devoted exclusively to the narrative of the Expedition and Retreat, immortalized by Xenophon, occupying the two years intervening between...
13. CHAPTER LXXIII.The close of the Peloponnesian war, with the victorious organization of the Lacedæmonian empire by Lysander, has already been described as a period carrying with it increased su...
14. c. 2) must also have taken place prior to the death of Agis inIt was apparently about a year after the campaigns in Elis, that king Agis, now an old man, was taken ill at Heræa in Arcadia, and carried back to Sparta, where he shortly after...
15. CHAPTER LXXIV.Having in my last chapter carried the series of Asiatic events down to the battle of Knidus, in the beginning of August, B.C. 394, at which period war was already raging on the...
16. CHAPTER LXXV.The presence of Pharnabazus and Konon with their commanding force in the Saronic Gulf, and the liberality with which the former furnished pecuniary aid to the latter for rebuild...