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 . 1-91. Greece—Rule of the Tyrants i 8 i were, naturally enough, always plotting against him. The Alcmaionidae, afterall the fuss of getting them ou
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 . 1-91. Greece—Rule of the Tyrants i 8 i were, naturally enough, always plotting against him. The Alcmaionidae, afterall the fuss of getting them out of the country, had been allowed to leader, Mcgacles, a grandson of that Megacles who had brought the curseupon them, headed an uprising which drove Pisistratus out of Athens. HutMegacles quarrelled with his party and formed an alliance with the exiled tyrant,who married a daughter of Megacles, and so won his way to power a secondtime. Again he lost his position, and yet again by a sudden invasion of the cityhe recaptured it. At length he made himself so powerful, and so honored also,that he ruled in peace by general consent. When he died in 528 he hadstarted Athens on her career of wealth, opening the city to the trade of theworld, and also on her career of artistic and philosophic splendor, welcominglearned men to his home and beautifying the city with many noble statues andstately buildings. He was succeeded, as quietly as
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