Outlines of the world's history, ancient, mediæval, and modern, with special relation to the history of civilization and the progress of mankind .. . sthe sky, with a prayer to Auramazda for help to revengehimself on the Athenians. Then he bade one of his ser-vants repeat to him thrice daily, as he sat down to dinner,^e words, Master, remember the Athenians! 92 HISTORY OF GREECE. 51. In execution of his purpose, Darius instructed hisFirst hostile son-in-law, Mardonius, to march an armymovement. against the Athenians. The force advancedthrough Thrace into Macedonia, which was speedily subju-gat
Outlines of the world's history, ancient, mediæval, and modern, with special relation to the history of civilization and the progress of mankind .. . sthe sky, with a prayer to Auramazda for help to revengehimself on the Athenians. Then he bade one of his ser-vants repeat to him thrice daily, as he sat down to dinner,^e words, Master, remember the Athenians! 92 HISTORY OF GREECE. 51. In execution of his purpose, Darius instructed hisFirst hostile son-in-law, Mardonius, to march an armymovement. against the Athenians. The force advancedthrough Thrace into Macedonia, which was speedily subju-gated, but it was able to go no farther; and a fleet whichhad been sent to co-operate was shattered by a great stormoff the peninsula of Mount Athos, so that Mardonius re-turned to Asia Minor in disgrace, 492 b. c. 52. This failure only added fury to the resolution ofNew prepara- Darius. While pushing forward his prepara-*°^^- tions for the invasion of Greece, he sent roundheralds to the chief Grecian cities to demand the tribute ofearth and water as signs of his being their rightful island states generally made their submission, as did. PERSIAN INVASIONS. 93 also many of the continental states, and it seemed that theyoung civilization of the West was to be overwhelmed byEastern despotism. But the genius of Hellas found noblechampions in two of the states; for Athens and Spartaindignantly rejected the demand, and their conjunctiondrew after them most of the lesser states in a defensiveleague. 53. It was time for Greece to be united, for in the springof 490 B. c. the preparations of Darius were invasion ofcomplete. A vast force, under a commander Greece,named Datis, sailed in 600 triremes from Samos across the^gasan, reducing the Cyclades islands on the way, and aftercapturing Eretria in the island of Euboea, made a landingin the bay of Marathon, on the east coast of Attica. ThePersians now prepared to advance on Athens. 54. But this was not to be without a struggle, and
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