. Men of old Greece, by Jennie Hall. lie hereat her But on that little hill where the Spartansmade their last stand was another monu-ment, a stone lion, with Leonidas carvedupon it. Sparta never forgot that battle or that 86 Men of Old Greece hero. In her market-place she built acovered walk, called the Persian of columns to hold up the roof, werePersians carved in stone, and on the wall ofthe porch were paintings of the Persianbattles. That porch seemed always tosay, 4 Remember the courage of the men whodrove the Persians out of Greece. Four years after the battle of Th
. Men of old Greece, by Jennie Hall. lie hereat her But on that little hill where the Spartansmade their last stand was another monu-ment, a stone lion, with Leonidas carvedupon it. Sparta never forgot that battle or that 86 Men of Old Greece hero. In her market-place she built acovered walk, called the Persian of columns to hold up the roof, werePersians carved in stone, and on the wall ofthe porch were paintings of the Persianbattles. That porch seemed always tosay, 4 Remember the courage of the men whodrove the Persians out of Greece. Four years after the battle of Ther-mopylae, the Spartans said: Our greatest hero lies in strange us bring him home. It will do our sonsgood always to see his tomb. So they brought the bones of Leonidas toSparta, and buried them in a great stonetomb. And there they hung a bronze tablet,with the names of those three hundred Spar-tans on it, and these words, These are the men who looked the Per-sians in the face. Every year at this tomb there were games 4 tL. - -- . c - < z7 I f. - •- Lconidas 87 and speeches. Only Spartans might play,and only Spartans might hear. Other heroes sleep in Spartan soil,those speakers said. Here sleeps the lionof Thermopylae. He was a king. He wasa Spartan. Let Spartans see that theybe worthy of this countryman and of thisking. THEMISTOCLES THEMISTOCLES A LL the freemen of Athens stood on thePnyx hill. There were tanners and car-penters and farmers and fishermen, in short,dark chitons. Their brown arms and legswere bare. Their hair wras cropped. Therewere gentlemen in white linen robes thatreached to their feet. Their long hair wasgathered into a knot on top of their headsand was fastened with a golden pin. Hereand there a few young men were dressed in alater fashion. Their hair was short. They wore short chitons, like the workmens. • But these glowed with gold embroidery orlight bands of color. There were no smiling faces in that greatcrowd. Most wore sneers or frown
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