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 . la of Greece extending southward into the sea. Only, to complete the picture, you must imagine a deep narrow cut slashed straight across the middl
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 . la of Greece extending southward into the sea. Only, to complete the picture, you must imagine a deep narrow cut slashed straight across the middle of the hand, severing it almost in two and reaching from beneath the little finger across toward the thumb. That cut is the Gulf of Corinth, and south of it the well-nigh severed end of the hand is the Peloponnesus, the most ancient world of Greece. Those four fingers stretching right out into the sea are four rockymountain ranges, and between them, watered by fair rivers, arethree valleys extending well up into the land. Each of these valleys was thesite of a celebrated city. The easternmost, near the forefinger, held two, Argos,the earliest of all Greek cities, and Mycenae, which for a time under the Achaeansusurped the supremacy of the valley from Argos, but lost it again in later middle valley was the land of Lacedemonia, the country of Sparta. In thewestern valley lay Messene, Spartas chief rival during several centuries. 167. 168 The Story of the Greatest Nations The short thumb of this outstretched hand is the peninsula of Attica, andbetween it and the forefinger he the Salonican Gulf and the famous island ofSalamis. Facing this gulf, near the base of the thumb, stands Athens; and onthe muscle joining thumb and forefinger stood Corinth, with its back to thatdeep slashing cut which we have called the Gulf of Corinth. North of this gulfthere were other httle Grecian states. Boeotia, with its capital of Thebes, occu-pied the root of the thumb. Beyond it, extendin
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