- Story of the Greeks
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This book is a collection of stories and histories about the Ancient Greeks, including many of their famous myths!
- Chapters
- Preface
- Early Inhabitants of Greece
- The Deluge of Ogyges
- The Found of Many Important Cities
- Story of Deucalion
- Story of Daedalus and Icaraus
- The Adventures of Jason
- Theseus visits the Labrinyth
- The Terrible Prophecy
- The Sphinx's Riddle
- Blindness and Death of Oedipus
- The Brothers' Quarrel
- The Taking of Thebes
- The Childhood of Paris
- The Muster of the Troops
- The Sacrifice of Iphigenia
- The Wrath of Achilles
- The Death of Hector and Achilles
- The Burning of Troy
- Heroic Death of Codrus
- The Blind Poet
- The Rise of Sparta
- The Spartan Training
- The Brave Spartan Boy
- Public Tables in Sparta
- Laws of Lycurgus
- The Messenian War
- The Music of Tyrtaeus
- Aristomenes' Escape
- The Olympic Games
- Milo of Croton
- The Jealous Athlete
- The Girls' Games
- The Bloody Laws of Draco
- The Laws of Solon
- The First Plays
- The Tyrant Pisistratus
- The Tyrant's Insult
- Death of the Conspirators
- Hippias Driven out of Athens
- The Great King
- Hippias Visits Darius
- Destruction of the Persian Host
- The Advance of the Second Host
- The Battle of Marathon
- Miltiades' Disgrace
- Aristides the Just
- Two Noble Spartan Youths
- The Great Army
- Preparations for Defense
- Leonidas at Themorplyae
- Death of Leonidas
- The Burning of Athens
- The Battles of Salamis and Plataea
- The Rebuilding of Athens
- Death of Pausanias
- Cimon improves Athens
- The Earthquake
- The Age of Pericles
- The Teachings of Anaxagoras
- Beginning of the Peloponnesian War
- Death of Pericles
- The Philosopher of Socrates
- Socrates' Favorite Pupil
- Youth of Alcibiades
- Greek Colonies in Italy
- Alcibiades in Disgrace
- Death of Alcibiades
- The Overthrow of theThirty Tyrants
- Accusation of Socrates
- Death of Socrates
- The Defeat of Cyrus
- The Retreat of the Ten Thousand
- Agesilaus in Asia
- A Strange Interview
- The Peace of Antalcidas
- The Theban Friends
- Thebes Free Once More
- The Battle of Leuctra
- Death of Pelopidas
- The Battle of Mantinea
- The Tyrant of Syracuse
- Story of Damon and Pythias
- The Sword of Damocles
- Dion and Dionysius
- Civil War in Syracuse
- Death of Dion
- Philip of Macedon
- Philip Begins His Conquests
- The Orator Demosthenes
- Philip Masters Greece
- Birth of Alexander
- The Steed Bucephalus
- Alexander as King
- Alexander and Diogenes
- Alexander's Brilliant Beginning
- The Gordian Knot
- Alexander's Royal Captives
- Alexander at Jerusalem
- The African Desert
- Death of Darius
- Death of Porus
- The Return to Babylon
- Death of Alexander the Great
- The Division of the Realm
- Death of Demosthenes
- The Last of the Athenians
- The Colossus of Rhodes
- The Battle of Ipsus
- Demetrius and the Athenians
- The Achaean League
- Division in Sparta
- Death of Agis
- The War of the Two Leagues
- The Last of the Greeks
- Greece a Roman Province