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Title: The story of the greatest nations, from the dawn of history to the twentieth century : a comprehensive history, founded upon the leading authorities, including a complete chronology of the world, and a pronouncing vocabulary of each nation
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Ellis, Edward Sylvester, 1840-1916 Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis), 1870-1942
Subjects: World history
Publisher: New York : F.R. Niglutsch
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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Plataea; the Persian fleet destroyed at Mycale. 472—Pausanias starved to
death for treason. 469—Battle of Eurymedon and end of the Persian war.
464—Pericles and Cimon adorn Athens. 459—Athens tyrannizes over Greece.
444—Herodotus reads his history in Athens. 435—Corinth wages war wit
hits colony Corcyra. 433—Athens helps Corcyra. 431-404—Peloponnesian
war. 430—Plague in Athens; death of Pericles. 428—Surrender of Plataea.
413—Banishment of Alcibiades and destruction of the Athenian army at Syr-
acuse. 410—Alcibiades defeats the Spartans at Cyzicus. 407—Alcibiades
again banished. 405—Defeat of the Athenian fleet at Ægos Potami. 404—
Surrender of Athens; Sparta becomes the ruling state in Greece; death of
Alcibiades. 399—Socrates put to death. 378-360—Rise and fall of the
Theban power. 371—Battle of Leuctra. 362—Battle of Mantinea; death of
Epaminondas. 359—Philip of Macedon quarrels with Athens; orations of
Demosthenes. 357—Social war. 348—Philip ends the Sacred Wars, taking
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ORESTES AND PYLADES BROUGHT BEFORE IPHIGENIA


Greece—Chronology 289

all the cities of the Phocians. 338—Philip defeats the Athenians and
Thebans at Chaeronea and overthrows the liberty of Greece. 336—Philip as-
sassinated by Pausanius. 335—His son, Alexander, subdues the Athenians
and destroys Thebes. 334—Alexander invades the Persian empire; victory
of GranicLis. 333—Battle of Issus. 332—Siege of Tyre and Gaza; capture
of Egypt; founding of Alexandria. 331—Battle of Arbela. 327—Conquest
of India. 323—Death of Alexander. 322—Death of Demosthenes. 301—
Battle of Ipsus settles the division of Alexander's empire among his generals.
296—Capture of Athens by Demetrius. 280—The Gallic invasion. 277—
The Gauls expelled. 278-239—Antigonus Gonatus, king of the Greeks. 251
—The Achxan League revived. 200—Dissensions lead to Roman interven-
tion. 191—Sparta united with the League. 168—Macedon made a Roman
province, its last king, Perseus, having been defeated at Pydna. 147—The
Achaean League defeated by Rome. 146— Destruction of Corinth ;Greece
conquered and made a Roman province under the name of Achaia. 21
—Augustus visits Greece and favors it.

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