The story of the greatest nations; a comprehensive history, extending from the earliest times to the present, founded on the most modern authorities, and including chronological summaries and pronouncing vocabularies for each nation; and the world's famous events, told in a series of brief sketches forming a single continuous story of history and illumined by a complete series of notable illustrations from the great historic paintings of all lands . 1-36. The Phoenicians—Strife with Greece 71 Tyre, head of the aristocratic party, led her adherents from the city because ofthe ascendency of thos
The story of the greatest nations; a comprehensive history, extending from the earliest times to the present, founded on the most modern authorities, and including chronological summaries and pronouncing vocabularies for each nation; and the world's famous events, told in a series of brief sketches forming a single continuous story of history and illumined by a complete series of notable illustrations from the great historic paintings of all lands . 1-36. The Phoenicians—Strife with Greece 71 Tyre, head of the aristocratic party, led her adherents from the city because ofthe ascendency of those same wilder forces which had once before seized therule in the days preceding her grandfather, Eth-baal. This aristocratic band ofcolonists founded Carthage, the most aristocratic of republics or oligarchies, acity of mighty merchants, wherein severest laws held the many of the lowerclasses in helpless subjection to the wealthy few. Roman legend changed the name of Carthages first queen to Dido, andhnked her fate with that of Romes own ancestor /Eneas. He said the Romansvisited Carthage and there wooed and deserted Dido, who killed herself forsorrow; and hence arose the eternal enmity between the two cities. The enmitywas a tragic fact of Roman history, but its causes were, as we shall see, far morepractical than a vengeance many centuries old. Carthage, situated in Africa on the southern shore of the Mediterraneanabout midway between its two
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