Readings in Ancient History: Greece and the EastAllyn and Bacon, 1912 |
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Overige edities - Alles bekijken
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
2d series Achæans Æginetans Agamemnon Ahura-Mazda Alexander allies Amompharetus ancient Apollo Archon Argives Aristagoras Aristides army Assyria Athenians Athens attack Attica Babylon Babylonians Barachiel barbarians battle Boeotia Bohn Translation brought called captains century B.C. chap chariot Cimon Cleomenes Clisthenes Cretan Croesus Cyrus Darius the King death Delphi demes Demosthenes Egypt Egyptian enemy Eurybiades father fight fleet fought friends Gaumata gave give given gods gold Greece Greeks hand hast Hellas Hellenes Herodotus Homeric honor horses Inscription Ionians Lacedæmon Lacedæmonians land lived lord Mardonius Marduk Medes Odysseus Olympia oracle palace Pausanias Peloponnesians Pericles Persians Polemarch Polycrates sacrifice Salamis Says Darius scepter sent ships side silver slave slew Socrates spake Spartan spear stood story temple Thebans Thebes thee Themistocles things thou Thucydides took tribes troops vessels victory wall whole Xerxes Zeus
Populaire passages
Pagina 249 - ... —either death is a state of nothingness and utter unconsciousness, or, as men say, there is a change and migration of the soul from this world to another.
Pagina 47 - And I will give thee the treasures of darkness, And hidden riches of secret places, That thou mayest know that I, the Lord, Which call thee by thy name, Am the God of Israel. For Jacob my servant's sake, And Israel mine elect, I have even called thee by thy name : I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not known me.
Pagina 213 - When conquerors, they pursue their victory to the utmost; when defeated, they fall back the least. Their bodies they devote to their country as though they belonged to other men; their true self is their mind, which is most truly their own when employed in her service.
Pagina 230 - ... not possible that the spectators on the shore should all receive the same impression of it. Being quite close and having different points of view, they would some of them see their own ships victorious ; their courage would then revive, and they would earnestly call upon the Gods not to take from them their hope of deliverance. But others, who saw their ships worsted, cried and shrieked aloud, and were by the sight alone more utterly unnerved than the defeated combatants themselves.
Pagina 117 - When Amasis had read the letter of Polycrates, he perceived that ' it does not belong to man to save his fellow-man from the fate which is in store for him; likewise he felt certain that Polycrates would end ill, as he prospered in everything, even finding what he had thrown away.
Pagina 231 - Those who were imprisoned in the quarries were at the beginning of their captivity harshly treated by the Syracusans. There were great numbers of them, and they were crowded in a deep and narrow place. At first the sun by day was still scorching and suffocating, for they had no roof over their heads, while the autumn nights were cold, and the extremes of temperature engendered violent disorders.
Pagina 172 - ... that either Sparta must be overthrown by the barbarians, or one of her kings must perish. The prophecy was delivered in hexameter verse, and ran thus: Oh! ye men who dwell in the streets of broad Lacedaemon, Either your glorious town shall be sacked by the children of Perseus, Or, in...
Pagina 227 - ... because they doubted whether they would ever see their friends again, when they thought of the long voyage on which they were sending them. At the moment of parting, the danger was nearer; and terrors which had never occurred to them when they were voting the expedition now entered into their souls. Nevertheless their spirits revived at the sight of the armament in all its strength and of the abundant provision which they had made. The strangers and the rest of the multitude came out of curiosity,...
Pagina 140 - For the man on whom the lot fell to be polemarch at Athens was entitled to give his vote with the ten generals, since anciently the Athenians allowed him an equal right of voting with them. The polemarch at this juncture was Callimachus of Aphidnae ; to him, therefore, Miltiades went and said :
Pagina 246 - ... him. There is Gorgias of Leontium, and Prodicus of Ceos, and Hippias of Elis, who go the round of the cities, and are able to persuade the young men to leave their own citizens by whom they might be taught for nothing, and come to them whom they not only pay, but are thankful if they may be allowed to pay them.