Story of the Greeks

by H. A. Guerber

Short Stories Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

116 chapters7h 35mEnglish1896

About this book

This book is a collection of stories and histories about the Ancient Greeks, including many of their famous myths! - Summary by Ann Boulais

Chapters (115)

1Early Inhabitants of Greece

244

2The Deluge of Ogyges

235

3The Found of Many Important Cities

316

4Story of Deucalion

225

5Story of Daedalus and Icaraus

301

6The Adventures of Jason

220

7Theseus visits the Labrinyth

347

8The Terrible Prophecy

172

9The Sphinx's Riddle

296

10Blindness and Death of Oedipus

332

11The Brothers' Quarrel

269

12The Taking of Thebes

187

13The Childhood of Paris

387

14The Muster of the Troops

329

15The Sacrifice of Iphigenia

144

16The Wrath of Achilles

240

17The Death of Hector and Achilles

166

18The Burning of Troy

268

19Heroic Death of Codrus

256

20The Blind Poet

221

21The Rise of Sparta

224

22The Spartan Training

192

23The Brave Spartan Boy

254

24Public Tables in Sparta

195

25Laws of Lycurgus

165

26The Messenian War

253

27The Music of Tyrtaeus

294

28Aristomenes' Escape

200

29The Olympic Games

318

30Milo of Croton

188

31The Jealous Athlete

159

32The Girls' Games

178

33The Bloody Laws of Draco

366

34The Laws of Solon

290

35The First Plays

252

36The Tyrant Pisistratus

312

37The Tyrant's Insult

169

38Death of the Conspirators

210

39Hippias Driven out of Athens

248

40The Great King

176

41Hippias Visits Darius

256

42Destruction of the Persian Host

192

43The Advance of the Second Host

241

44The Battle of Marathon

272

45Miltiades' Disgrace

302

46Aristides the Just

197

47Two Noble Spartan Youths

257

48The Great Army

158

49Preparations for Defense

224

50Leonidas at Themorplyae

166

51Death of Leonidas

212

52The Burning of Athens

180

53The Battles of Salamis and Plataea

205

54The Rebuilding of Athens

171

55Death of Pausanias

244

56Cimon improves Athens

183

57The Earthquake

329

58The Age of Pericles

299

59The Teachings of Anaxagoras

264

60Beginning of the Peloponnesian War

253

61Death of Pericles

239

62The Philosopher of Socrates

209

63Socrates' Favorite Pupil

322

64Youth of Alcibiades

235

65Greek Colonies in Italy

265

66Alcibiades in Disgrace

243

67Death of Alcibiades

268

68The Overthrow of theThirty Tyrants

153

69Accusation of Socrates

246

70Death of Socrates

322

71The Defeat of Cyrus

227

72The Retreat of the Ten Thousand

259

73Agesilaus in Asia

134

74A Strange Interview

184

75The Peace of Antalcidas

198

76The Theban Friends

182

77Thebes Free Once More

227

78The Battle of Leuctra

180

79Death of Pelopidas

174

80The Battle of Mantinea

220

81The Tyrant of Syracuse

222

82Story of Damon and Pythias

327

83The Sword of Damocles

228

84Dion and Dionysius

256

85Civil War in Syracuse

177

86Death of Dion

203

87Philip of Macedon

296

88Philip Begins His Conquests

237

89The Orator Demosthenes

260

90Philip Masters Greece

289

91Birth of Alexander

248

92The Steed Bucephalus

231

93Alexander as King

262

94Alexander and Diogenes

258

95Alexander's Brilliant Beginning

272

96The Gordian Knot

238

97Alexander's Royal Captives

195

98Alexander at Jerusalem

225

99The African Desert

272

100Death of Darius

262

101Death of Porus

242

102The Return to Babylon

178

103Death of Alexander the Great

233

104The Division of the Realm

217

105Death of Demosthenes

244

106The Last of the Athenians

230

107The Colossus of Rhodes

303

108The Battle of Ipsus

148

109Demetrius and the Athenians

148

110The Achaean League

239

111Division in Sparta

300

112Death of Agis

178

113The War of the Two Leagues

218

114The Last of the Greeks

166

115Greece a Roman Province

228

Story of the Greeks

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