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... never moving many miles from his birthplace , and handing on to his children nothing more than the stock of impressions and ideas which he had inherited from a long line of forefathers . The Greek of the busy cities which studded the ...
... never moving many miles from his birthplace , and handing on to his children nothing more than the stock of impressions and ideas which he had inherited from a long line of forefathers . The Greek of the busy cities which studded the ...
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... never advanced further . The basis of the federation was an exclusive religion , and the intolerance which was its natural consequence was never wholly shaken off . In blood the men of Athens , Thebes , and Sparta were as closely ...
... never advanced further . The basis of the federation was an exclusive religion , and the intolerance which was its natural consequence was never wholly shaken off . In blood the men of Athens , Thebes , and Sparta were as closely ...
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... never allowed to intrude into the region of politics , was sustained and strengthened , as we have seen , by a common religion . The pri- mitive hearth and altar had been from the first the sacred spot where the members of the family ...
... never allowed to intrude into the region of politics , was sustained and strengthened , as we have seen , by a common religion . The pri- mitive hearth and altar had been from the first the sacred spot where the members of the family ...
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... never made , or it has been lost irretrievably . Confining ourselves within these limits , we may form some idea of the actual condition of the several countries collectively regarded as Hellas , when history was in its dawn . At this ...
... never made , or it has been lost irretrievably . Confining ourselves within these limits , we may form some idea of the actual condition of the several countries collectively regarded as Hellas , when history was in its dawn . At this ...
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... never needed or used the protection of a body- guard . The two traditions , if they be such , exclude each other . But strange as may be the inconsistencies of these Kypselid legends , the stories told of his son Periandros are far more ...
... never needed or used the protection of a body- guard . The two traditions , if they be such , exclude each other . But strange as may be the inconsistencies of these Kypselid legends , the stories told of his son Periandros are far more ...
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Agesilaos Akropolis Alexander Alkibiades alliance allies Argives Aristagoras Aristomenes army Artaphernes Athens attack Attica barbarians battle Boiotian Brasidas brought Byzantion carried Chersonesos Chios citizens coast command confederacy conquest Corinth Corinthian Corinthian gulf Cyrus Dareios death defeat Delphian Delphoi demos Demosthenes despot empire enemy envoys ephors Euboia Eupatrid fight followed force Greeks gulf harbour hastened Hellas Hellenic Hellespont Herodotos Hippias Histiaios hoplites Ionians island Kambyses Kleisthenes Kleon Konon Korkyra Kroisos land Leonidas Lydian Lysandros Makedonian Marathon Mardonios Messenians Miletos nians Nikias oligarchs once passed Pausanias peace Peiraieus Peisistratos Peloponnesian Peloponnesos Perikles Persian king Phenician Philip Phokians Plataia reached retreat revolt sailed Salamis Samos Sardeis satrap Scythians sent ships Sicily slain Solon Sousa Spartan king Spartans story Syracusan Thebans Thebes Themistokles Theramenes Thermopylai Thrakian tidings tion Tissaphernes told tribes triremes troops tyrant victory walls whole Xenophon Xerxes
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