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"I'M LOOKING AT THE GREAT BIG GLOBE THAT UNCLE JOE SAID I MIGHT TOUCH," SAID LUCY
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"DO PLEASE SIT DOWN, THERE'S A GOOD MOTHER BUNCH, AND TELL ME ALL ABOUT THEM?"
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LUCY HAD A GREAT SNEEZING FIT, AND WHEN SHE LOOKED AGAIN INTO THE SMOKE, WHAT DID SHE SEE BUT TWO LITTLE BLACK FIGURES
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"I AM SO GLAD TO SEE YOU: HUSH, DON! DON'T BARK SO"
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"I CAN EAT MUCH BETTER WITHOUT," SAID LAVO
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LAVO HAD CLIMBED UP THE SIDE OF THE DOOR, AND WAS SITTING ASTRIDE ON THE TOP OF IT
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"AH! CECCO, CECCO!" CRIED THE LITTLE GIRL, PAUSING AS SHE BEAT HER TAMBOURINE
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"IS THAT THE WAY YOU GET FISH?" SHE ASKED
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"HELP ME: I'M AFRAID," SAID LUCY
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HARK! THERE'S A CRY, AND OUT JUMPS A LITTLE BLACK FIGURE, WITH A STOUT CLUB IN HIS HAND
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AND HERE BESIDE HER WAS A LITTLE FELLOW WITH A BOW AND ARROWS SUCH AS SHE HAD NEVER SEEN BEFORE
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"IS IT NOT GOOD?" SAID THE LITTLE HOSTESS
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WHISKING OVER THE SNOW, WITH ALL HER MIGHT AND MAIN, MUFFLED UP IN CLOAKS AND FURS
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"MARRIED! OH NO, YOU ARE JOKING"
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"I WILL SHOW YOU WHERE YOU LIVE—THIS IS CONSTANTINOPLE"
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"I CUT IT OUT WITH MY KNIFE; ALL MYSELF"
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WHILE HE JERKED OUT HIS ARMS AND LEGS AS IF THEY WERE PULLED BY STRINGS
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"SEE NOW," CRIED THE SPANIARD; "STAND THERE! AH! HAVE YOU NO CASTANETS?"
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[xi]"WHAT ARE YOU ABOUT, LITTLE BOY?"
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"AH! MADEMOISELLE, GOOD MORNING; ARE YOU COME HERE TO TAKE SHELTER FROM THE SHELLS?"
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"WHAT CAN THAT BE, COMING AT THIS TIME OF DAY?"
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"GOOD MORNING, WHERE DO YOU COME FROM?"
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OH! SUCH A DIN
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AUNT CHARLOTTE'Sstories of GREEK HISTORY
By Charlotte M. Yonge
CONTENTS

chap.

page

I.

Olympus

11

II.

Light and Dark

18

III.

The Peopling of Greece

26

IV.

The Hero Perseus

35

V.

The Labours of Hercules

42

VI.

The Argonauts

51

VII.

The Success of the Argonauts

59

VIII.

The Choice of Paris

68

IX.

The Siege of Troy

76

X.

The Wanderings of Ulysses

84

XI.

The Doom of the Atrides

94

XII.

After the Heroic Age

102

XIII.

Lycurgus and the Laws of Sparta. b.c. 884–668

110

XIV.

Solon and the Laws of Athens. b.c. 594–546

118

XV.

Pisistratus and his Sons. b.c. 558–499

126

XVI.

The Battle of Marathon. b.c. 490

134

XVII.

The Expedition of Xerxes. b.c. 480

142

XVIII.

The Battle of Platæa. b.c. 479–460

151

XIX.

The Age of Pericles. b.c. 464–429

159

p. 6XX.

The Expedition to Sicily. b.c. 415–413

167

XXI.

The Shore of the Goat’s River. b.c. 406–402

174

XXII.

The Retreat of the Ten Thousand. b.c. 402–399

181

XXIII.

The Death of Socrates. b.c. 399

189

XXIV.

The Supremacy of Sparta. b.c. 396

196

XXV.

The Two Theban Friends. b.c. 387–362

203

XXVI.

Philip of Macedon. b.c. 364

210

XXVII.

The Youth of Alexander. b.c. 356–334

217

XXVIII.

The Expedition to Persia. b.c. 334

224

XXIX.

Alexander’s Eastern Conquests. b.c. 331–328

231

XXX.

The End of Alexander. b.c. 328

238

XXXI.

The Last Struggles of Athens. b.c. 334–311

245

XXXII.

The Four New Kingdoms. b.c. 311–287

252

XXXIII.

Pyrrhus, King of Epirus. b.c. 287

258

XXXIV.

Aratus and the Achaian League. b.c. 267

265

XXXV.

Agis and the Revival of Sparta. b.c. 244–236

272

XXXVI.

Cleomenes and the Fall of Sparta. b.c. 236–222

279

XXXVII.

Philopœmen, the Last of the Greeks. b.c. 236–184

286

XXXVIII.

The Fall of Greece. b.c. 189–146

293

XXXIX.

The Gospel in Greece. b.c. 146–a.d. 60

300

XL.

Under the Roman Empire

308

XLI.

The Frank Conquest. 1201–1446

315

XLII.

The Turkish Conquest. 1453–1670

322

XLIII.

The Venetian Conquest and Loss. 1684–1796

328

XLIV.

The War of Independence. 1815

334

XLV.

The Kingdom of Greece. 1822–1875

340

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

page

Mount Olympus

11

Head of Jupiter

14

Supposed Temple of Jupiter Panhellenius in Ægina

19

Head of Pallas

21

Triptolemus

23

Mars and Victory

25

Mount Parnassus

27

The World according to the Greeks

30

Perseus and Andromeda

38

Cyclopean Wall

41

Scene in the Arachnæan Mountains near Argos

44

Building the Argo

53

Corinth

62

Plains of Troy

69

Greek Ships

73

Achilles binding his Armour on Patroclus

78

Sepulchral Mound, known as the Tomb of Ajax

80

Laocöon

82

Funeral Feast

83

Ulysses tied to the Mast

89

p. 8Port of Ithaca

91

Plain of Sparta, with Mount Taygetus

97

Greek Interior

106

Greek Robe

107

Male Costume

108

Gate of Mycenæ

119

Shores of the Persian Gulf

129

View in the Vicinity of Athens

141

Pass of Thermopylæ

145

Salamis

148

Persian Soldier

152

Tombs at Platæa

153

The Acropolis, Athens

162

Propylæa, Athens

163

The Academic Grove, Athens

168

Athens

180

Babylon

182

Greek Armour

188

Socrates

190

Plato

193

View on the Eurotas in Laconia

202

Thessalonica

209

Demosthenes

212

Diana of Ephesus

218

Alexander

222

Bacchanals

223

Alexander the Great

225

Second Temple of Diana at Ephesus

227

Princes of Persia

234

Supposed Walls of Babylon

242

p. 9Site of Susa, ancient Metropolis of Persia

244

Gate of Hadrian in Athens

247

Macedonian Soldier

255

Delphi and the Castalian Fount

262

Corinth

267

View looking across Isthmus of Corinth

269

Ruins of a Temple at Corinth

271

Temple of Neptune

285

Crowning the Victor in the Isthmian Games

290

Livadia, the ancient Mideia in Argolis

292

Sappho

295

Lessina, the ancient Eleusis, on the Gulf of Corinth

297

View from Corinth

301

Parthenon and Erectheum

304

Distant View of Parnassus

307

Plains of Philippi

309

Obelisk of Theodosius, Constantinople

313

An Amphitheatre

314

Promontory of Actium

318

Mount Helicon

321

Cathedral of St. Sophia

323

Temple of Minerva, on the Promontory of Sunium

330

Ancyra, Galatia

332

The Acropolis, Restored

337

The Isles of Greece

344

Plain of Marathon

346

SOWING AND SEWING
A Sexagesima Story
By Charlotte M. Yonge

CONTENTS
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