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... towns of Egypt , imposed their fables on the credulous Greeks who first visited that country . The Achæan period is the heroic age of Greece : then flourished , or are said to have flourished , the mythic heroes Hercules , Theseus ...
... towns of Egypt , imposed their fables on the credulous Greeks who first visited that country . The Achæan period is the heroic age of Greece : then flourished , or are said to have flourished , the mythic heroes Hercules , Theseus ...
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... town to the rank of a leading state . The threatening war of the Persians showed that Athens ' only hope lay in the augmentation of her navy . Themistocles awaked the ancient grudge against Ægina ; and the produce of the silver - mines ...
... town to the rank of a leading state . The threatening war of the Persians showed that Athens ' only hope lay in the augmentation of her navy . Themistocles awaked the ancient grudge against Ægina ; and the produce of the silver - mines ...
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... towns of Greece and Asia . The pride and arrogance of Sparta lost her this empire . The oligarchy established and ... town ; and wherever , as at Olyn- thus , popular liberty established itself , the Spartan com- manders had orders to ...
... towns of Greece and Asia . The pride and arrogance of Sparta lost her this empire . The oligarchy established and ... town ; and wherever , as at Olyn- thus , popular liberty established itself , the Spartan com- manders had orders to ...
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... towns . The Lacedæmonians were now forced to recall Agesilaus from his conquests in Asia to oppose the Theban and Athenian ... town named Messene , in which he placed a Theban garrison . Athens joined Sparta . Ambas- sadors from all the ...
... towns . The Lacedæmonians were now forced to recall Agesilaus from his conquests in Asia to oppose the Theban and Athenian ... town named Messene , in which he placed a Theban garrison . Athens joined Sparta . Ambas- sadors from all the ...
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... town among them who gradually united several towns under him . At this period , Jason was such in Pheræ , and Polydamas in Pharsalus . Both were men of virtue , only that of Jason was not proof against ambition . They united in the ...
... town among them who gradually united several towns under him . At this period , Jason was such in Pheræ , and Polydamas in Pharsalus . Both were men of virtue , only that of Jason was not proof against ambition . They united in the ...
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