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The Story of the Greeks

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  1. Preface

    3:13

  2. Early Inhabitants of Greece

    4:04

  3. The Deluge of Ogyges

    3:55

  4. The Found of Many Important Cities

    5:16

  5. Story of Deucalion

    3:45

  6. Story of Daedalus and Icaraus

    5:01

  7. The Adventures of Jason

    3:40

  8. Theseus visits the Labrinyth

    5:47

  9. The Terrible Prophecy

    2:52

  10. The Sphinx's Riddle

    4:56

  11. Blindness and Death of Oedipus

    5:32

  12. The Brothers' Quarrel

    4:29

  13. The Taking of Thebes

    3:07

  14. The Childhood of Paris

    6:27

  15. The Muster of the Troops

    5:29

  16. The Sacrifice of Iphigenia

    2:24

  17. The Wrath of Achilles

    4:00

  18. The Death of Hector and Achilles

    2:46

  19. The Burning of Troy

    4:28

  20. Heroic Death of Codrus

    4:16

  21. The Blind Poet

    3:41

  22. The Rise of Sparta

    3:44

  23. The Spartan Training

    3:12

  24. The Brave Spartan Boy

    4:14

  25. Public Tables in Sparta

    3:15

  26. Laws of Lycurgus

    2:45

  27. The Messenian War

    4:13

  28. The Music of Tyrtaeus

    4:54

  29. Aristomenes' Escape

    3:20

  30. The Olympic Games

    5:18

  31. Milo of Croton

    3:08

  32. The Jealous Athlete

    2:39

  33. The Girls' Games

    2:58

  34. The Bloody Laws of Draco

    6:06

  35. The Laws of Solon

    4:50

  36. The First Plays

    4:12

  37. The Tyrant Pisistratus

    5:12

  38. The Tyrant's Insult

    2:49

  39. Death of the Conspirators

    3:30

  40. Hippias Driven out of Athens

    4:08

  41. The Great King

    2:56

  42. Hippias Visits Darius

    4:16

  43. Destruction of the Persian Host

    3:12

  44. The Advance of the Second Host

    4:01

  45. The Battle of Marathon

    4:32

  46. Miltiades' Disgrace

    5:02

  47. Aristides the Just

    3:17

  48. Two Noble Spartan Youths

    4:17

  49. The Great Army

    2:38

  50. Preparations for Defense

    3:44

  51. Leonidas at Themorplyae

    2:46

  52. Death of Leonidas

    3:32

  53. The Burning of Athens

    3:00

  54. The Battles of Salamis and Plataea

    3:25

  55. The Rebuilding of Athens

    2:51

  56. Death of Pausanias

    4:04

  57. Cimon improves Athens

    3:03

  58. The Earthquake

    5:29

  59. The Age of Pericles

    4:59

  60. The Teachings of Anaxagoras

    4:24

  61. Beginning of the Peloponnesian War

    4:13

  62. Death of Pericles

    3:59

  63. The Philosopher of Socrates

    3:29

  64. Socrates' Favorite Pupil

    5:22

  65. Youth of Alcibiades

    3:55

  66. Greek Colonies in Italy

    4:25

  67. Alcibiades in Disgrace

    4:03

  68. Death of Alcibiades

    4:28

  69. The Overthrow of theThirty Tyrants

    2:33

  70. Accusation of Socrates

    4:06

  71. Death of Socrates

    5:22

  72. The Defeat of Cyrus

    3:47

  73. The Retreat of the Ten Thousand

    4:19

  74. Agesilaus in Asia

    2:14

  75. A Strange Interview

    3:04

  76. The Peace of Antalcidas

    3:18

  77. The Theban Friends

    3:02

  78. Thebes Free Once More

    3:47

  79. The Battle of Leuctra

    3:00

  80. Death of Pelopidas

    2:54

  81. The Battle of Mantinea

    3:40

  82. The Tyrant of Syracuse

    3:42

  83. Story of Damon and Pythias

    5:27

  84. The Sword of Damocles

    3:48

  85. Dion and Dionysius

    4:16

  86. Civil War in Syracuse

    2:57

  87. Death of Dion

    3:23

  88. Philip of Macedon

    4:56

  89. Philip Begins His Conquests

    3:57

  90. The Orator Demosthenes

    4:20

  91. Philip Masters Greece

    4:49

  92. Birth of Alexander

    4:08

  93. The Steed Bucephalus

    3:51

  94. Alexander as King

    4:22

  95. Alexander and Diogenes

    4:18

  96. Alexander's Brilliant Beginning

    4:32

  97. The Gordian Knot

    3:58

  98. Alexander's Royal Captives

    3:15

  99. Alexander at Jerusalem

    3:45

  100. The African Desert

    4:32

  101. Death of Darius

    4:22

  102. Death of Porus

    4:02

  103. The Return to Babylon

    2:58

  104. Death of Alexander the Great

    3:53

  105. The Division of the Realm

    3:37

  106. Death of Demosthenes

    4:04

  107. The Last of the Athenians

    3:50

  108. The Colossus of Rhodes

    5:03

  109. The Battle of Ipsus

    2:28

  110. Demetrius and the Athenians

    2:28

  111. The Achaean League

    3:59

  112. Division in Sparta

    5:00

  113. Death of Agis

    2:58

  114. The War of the Two Leagues

    3:38

  115. The Last of the Greeks

    2:46

  116. Greece a Roman Province

    3:48

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Written for young readers in the 1890s as part of the Eclectic School Readings series, this narrative history carries the reader through ancient Greece from its legendary beginnings to its absorption by Rome. Guerber opens with the old tales of Deucalion, Cadmus, Jason and the Argonauts, and the Trojan War, then moves to firmer ground: Lycurgus and the hard discipline of Sparta, Solon's reforms in Athens, and the defense against Persia at Marathon, Thermopylae, and Salamis. Later chapters trace the golden age of Athens, the ruinous Peloponnesian War, and the conquests of Alexander the Great. The prose stays plain and vivid, built to hold a child's attention while teaching real names, dates, and consequences. It remains a clear, humane introduction to the Greek world.

About the author

H. A. Guerber

Hélène Adeline Guerber (1859-1929) was an American author and educator known for retelling myth, legend, and history in a form young students could follow. Her popular "Story of" books, among them The Story of the Romans and Myths of Greece and Rome, were widely used in American schools.

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First published
1896
Reading time
About 5 hours
Pages
191
Language
English
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Audio read by
Matthew Nerger, Wilfred, jmor90 and others