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 . was the authority of Sparta that almost all obeyed. But whenthe gathered alHes learned that he purposed to destroy Athens, they refusedhim their a
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 . was the authority of Sparta that almost all obeyed. But whenthe gathered alHes learned that he purposed to destroy Athens, they refusedhim their aid, and even his colleague, the second Spartan king, rebuked himfor his vindictiveness against a Grecian city. It is evident that this incident marks a new spirit rising among the Greeks,a sense of nationality, of a bond of brotherhood, a realization that disaster toone city meant disaster to all. With the recognition of that fact, Greek liistorytakes on a new phase, the period of union rather than of discord begins, andGreece steps forward at a bound to assume her place among the leading powersof the ancient world. She fights her remarkable battles against the huge empireof Persia. But before approaching the story of the Persian war, we must pause totrace the rise of this new power, Athens, which had thus ventured to defy Sparta,and was soon, in the eyes of men, to rank even above that famous city in honorand in splendor. ?^?*[|^=^^-^^g^. ^##4^44###|^4^###^i^##44###S^^^*^^ Bas-kelief fkom the Parthenon Chapter XVATHENS AND THE GROWTH OF DEMOCRACY ^HE city of Athens has long been held up to mankind asthe crown of all that was most brilliant in the ancientworld. Her citizens became foremost in art and in phil-osophy, in military and also in Hterary glory. Moreover,Athens was the greatest, if not the earHest, of the Greekdemocracies, states in which the people governedthemselves directly, without having recourse to kingsor priesthoods. Thus Athens stands as the source of allour m
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