item: #1 of 26 id: 1170 author: Xenophon title: Anabasis date: None words: 95682 flesch: 70 summary: And as other men pride themselves on piety and truth and righteousness, so Menon prided himself on a capacity for fraud, on the fabrication of lies, on the mockery and scorn of friends. Xenophon and Cheirisophus arranged to recover the dead, and in return restored the guide; afterwards they did everything for the dead, according to the means at their disposal, with the customary honours paid to good men. keywords: arms; army; attack; battle; body; camp; cavalry; cheirisophus; city; clearchus; command; country; cyrus; day; days; enemy; friends; generals; good; hand; heavy; hellenes; infantry; king; left; man; march; men; officers; order; parasangs; passage; pay; place; plain; point; present; provisions; rest; return; right; river; road; sea; set; seuthes; soldiers; stages; time; tissaphernes; troops; villages; war; way; words; xenophon cache: 1170.txt plain text: 1170.txt item: #2 of 26 id: 1174 author: Xenophon title: Hellenica date: None words: 126155 flesch: 73 summary: And now let us admonish you, they added, to be eager and willing in the future, even as in the past: whatever the word of command may be, show yourselves good men and true: let not the memory of those glorious sea fights fade. But our hope, our expectation should rather be that they will prove themselves good men and not base; since they beyond all others would seem persistently to have cherished a high endeavour, reaching forth after true praise, and holding aloof from ugly deeds. keywords: agesilaus; allies; arcadians; army; athenians; athens; attack; b.c; battle; body; cavalry; cities; citizens; city; day; death; enemy; fleet; foll; force; friends; general; good; grote; hand; heavy; hell; home; iii; infantry; king; lacedaemonians; land; left; lit; long; lysander; man; men; note; order; party; pharnabazus; place; point; power; present; rest; round; sail; sea; set; ships; state; territory; thebans; thebes; thuc; time; troops; vessels; walls; war; way cache: 1174.txt plain text: 1174.txt item: #3 of 26 id: 12916 author: Procopius title: The Secret History of the Court of Justinian date: None words: 44313 flesch: 56 summary: As for the plague, of which I have made mention in the former books of my history, although it ravaged the whole earth, yet as many men escaped it as perished by it, some of them never taking the contagion, and others recovering from it. Many men have been born in every age who, either by circumstances or their own character, have shown themselves terrible beings, who became the ruin of cities, countries, and whatever else fell into their hands; but to destroy all men and to ruin the whole earth has been granted to none save these two, who have been helped by Fortune in their schemes to destroy the whole human race. keywords: antonina; army; belisarius; byzantium; chapter; cities; city; country; death; emperor; empire; empress; john; justinian; law; man; manner; means; men; money; order; people; place; property; public; reason; roman; soldiers; state; subjects; theodora; theodosius; time; way; wealth; wife cache: 12916.txt plain text: 12916.txt item: #4 of 26 id: 14634 author: Symonds, John Addington title: Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series date: None words: 111726 flesch: 70 summary: It is usual to find mere assonances like _bene_ and _piacere, oro_ and _volo, ala_ and _alata_, in the place of rhymes; while such remote resemblances of sound as _colli_ and _poggi_, _lascia_ and _piazza_, are far from uncommon. Tourneur, Ford, and Webster were so dazzled by the tragic lustre of the wickedness of Italy that their finest dramas, without exception, are minute and carefully studied psychological analyses of great Italian tales of crime. keywords: age; alberti; arms; art; beauty; bright; brother; canossa; cardinal; century; character; charles; chief; church; cities; city; clear; close; correggio; cosimo; country; court; dante; day; days; death; duke; earth; end; english; eyes; face; fair; family; father; feet; florence; florentine; flowers; form; francesco; french; genius; giovanni; golden; good; government; green; hand; hath; head; heart; heaven; hills; history; house; italian; italy; kind; left; life; light; literature; lord; lorenzo; love; man; medici; men; mind; moment; mountain; nature; new; noble; order; pass; passion; people; place; plain; poetry; poets; point; poliziano; pope; power; renaissance; republic; roman; rome; rose; round; scene; sea; self; sense; set; son; song; soul; spirit; state; style; thee; thou; thought; thy; time; town; trees; urbino; venice; vittoria; walls; war; water; way; webster; white; wild; work; world; year; young; youth cache: 14634.txt plain text: 14634.txt item: #5 of 26 id: 14972 author: Symonds, John Addington title: Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series date: None words: 114630 flesch: 72 summary: In Mentone, not very long ago, old men might be seen who in their youth were said to have been taken captive by the Moors; and many Arabic words have found their way into the patois of the people. In the 'Disputa' the gravity and dignity of old men are above all things striking. keywords: age; air; alessandro; alfieri; alps; arms; art; artist; beautiful; beauty; beneath; bibboni; black; blue; century; character; church; city; clouds; colleoni; colour; country; dark; day; days; dead; death; deep; duke; earth; elena; emotion; end; evening; eyes; face; father; feeling; feet; flowers; form; francesco; friend; genius; gerardo; god; golden; goldoni; good; green; grey; half; hand; head; hills; history; home; house; italy; lake; landscape; left; life; lombard; lorenzino; lorenzo; love; man; marble; master; men; milan; monte; morning; mountain; music; nature; new; night; pass; past; people; picture; place; plain; poetry; point; power; red; room; rose; round; san; scene; sea; sense; service; set; sky; snow; soul; spirit; stars; style; sun; things; thought; time; town; trees; valley; venetian; venice; walls; water; way; white; wind; wine; winter; women; words; work; world; years cache: 14972.txt plain text: 14972.txt item: #6 of 26 id: 18845 author: None title: Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 7 Italy, Sicily, and Greece (Part One) date: None words: 53178 flesch: 63 summary: Who Arnolfo was seems to be scarcely known, tho few architects after him have left greater works or more evidence of power. It is all so silent and so close, and tomb-like; and the dungeons below are so black and stealthy, and stagnant, and naked; that this little dark spot becomes a dream within a dream; and in the vision of great churches which come rolling past me like a sea, it is a small wave by itself, that melts into no other wave, and does not flow on with the rest. keywords: air; ancient; arches; art; black; bridge; building; campanile; cathedral; century; church; city; co.; coliseum; columns; day; dome; eye; feet; florence; form; grand; ground; half; house; illustration; interior; italy; john; left; life; light; marble; mark; men; meters; new; order; palace; people; peter; piazza; pope; present; roman; rome; roof; room; ruins; santa; sea; set; sky; space; statues; stone; structure; tho; time; tower; venice; walls; water; way; white; work; world; years cache: 18845.txt plain text: 18845.txt item: #7 of 26 id: 19061 author: None title: Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 8 Italy, Sicily, and Greece, Part Two date: None words: 51497 flesch: 69 summary: Was it not the first expression of the feeling which still possesses the visitor who wanders through its ruins, and which still dominates the educated world--the feeling that while other cities owe to the triumph of Christianity all their beauty and their interest, Athens has to this day resisted this influence; and that while the Christian monuments of Athens would elsewhere excite no small attention, here they are passed by as of no import compared with its heathen splendor? So, I went off, with a guide, to an old, old garden, once belonging to an old, old convent, I suppose; and being admitted, at a shattered gate, by a bright-eyed woman who was washing clothes, went down some walks where fresh plants and young flowers were prettily growing among fragments of old wall, and ivy-covered mounds; and was shown a little tank, or water-trough, which the bright-eyed woman--drying her arms upon her 'kerchief--called La tomba di Giulietta la sfortunáta. keywords: air; athens; blue; building; century; church; cities; city; co.; columns; country; dark; day; days; deep; distance; feet; foot; form; greece; greek; ground; half; hand; hill; houses; illustration; island; italy; lake; left; marble; modern; mountain; naples; people; place; plain; right; road; rock; ruins; sea; sicily; snow; square; statue; stone; sun; temple; tho; time; towers; town; trees; walls; water; way; white; work; world; years cache: 19061.txt plain text: 19061.txt item: #8 of 26 id: 19328 author: Baikie, James title: The Sea-Kings of Crete date: None words: 74054 flesch: 59 summary: 'Fire itself, so fatal to other libraries, has thus insured the preservation of the archives of Minoan Knossos.' First, date of, 148; Third, 146; Fifth, 146; Sixth, 143, 149; Twelfth, 148, 150-155, 199; Thirteenth, 200; Seventeenth, 158, 200; Eighteenth, 158-163; Nineteenth, 163 E Egypt: relations of, with Crete, 139; chronology of, 147 _et seq._ Electrum, 229 Enkomi, 51 Epeus, 103 Erman Egyptian chronology, 148 Ethiopia, King of, obliged to slay himself at command of priests, 254 Europa, mother of Minos, 7, 8, 136 Euryalus, 103 Evans, A. J., 1, 2; purchases hill of Kephala, 64, 65; discoveries at Knossos, 65-116; derivation of Labyrinth, 71; on relief of bull's head, 77, 78; on tablets of Knossos, 79, 80; drains at Knossos, 99; bull's head _rhyton_, 113; restoration of Queen's Megaron, 115; 'Scripta Minoa' quoted, 121; excavations at Zafer Papoura, 134; at Isopata, 135; Minoan chronology, 149; first destruction of Knossos, 171; date of sack of Knossos, 174; growth of Cretan legends, 179, 180; classification of Minoan periods, 190; origin of spiral, 194; decline of Minoan oil-trade, 222; Minoan writing, 232, 233, 235, 236, 237-238, 239, 240 F Fetish shrine at Knossos, 111, 237, 245 Fibula, use of, in late Minoan III., 178 Fig-tree, 227 Figurines: ivory, at Knossos, 96; faïence, 105, 106, 156; banjo, 193 Flute on Hagia Triada sarcophagus, 127, 128 Fortifications: of Knossos, 74, 75, 76; of Tiryns and Mycenæ, 75, 138 Fresco (Frescoes): bull at Tiryns, 49; at Knossos, 66; Procession at Knossos, 66; Cup-Bearer, 67, 68, 173, 206; of Throne Room, 71, 72; Blue Boy, 73, 90, 172, 202; miniature, 73, 74, 172, 173, 206; toreador, 88, 89; bird, 95, 220; dancing-girls, 220; Dolphin, 224. keywords: age; ancient; area; art; b.c; bronze; building; bull; case; civilization; court; cretan; crete; culture; dynasty; early; egyptian; evans; evidence; fact; feet; footnote; form; goddess; gold; great; greek; hagia; history; homeric; house; iii; island; king; knossos; late; life; light; men; middle; middle minoan; minoan; minoan iii; minoan period; minos; mycenæan; palace; period; phæstos; pottery; race; remains; sea; stone; time; tomb; triada; use; vases; walls; white; work; world; years cache: 19328.txt plain text: 19328.txt item: #9 of 26 id: 2096 author: Smith, William title: A Smaller History of Greece: from the Earliest Times to the Roman Conquest date: None words: 94037 flesch: 62 summary: It was soon joined by Troezen, Epidaurus, Hermione and other cities; and ultimately embraced Athens, Megara, AEgina, Salamis, and the whole Peloponnesus, with the exception of Sparta, Elis, and some of the Arcadian towns. His doctrines spread rapidly over Magna Graecia, and clubs of a similar character were established at Sybaris, Metapontum, Tarentum, and other cities. keywords: age; alexander; allies; army; asia; assembly; athenians; athens; b.c; battle; body; cities; citizens; city; coast; command; country; cyrus; days; death; demosthenes; enemy; fleet; force; general; government; grecian; greece; greeks; head; history; island; king; lacedaemonians; land; left; length; life; macedonia; march; men; number; order; peace; peloponnesian; people; pericles; period; persian; philip; power; public; return; sea; ships; son; sparta; spartans; state; thebans; time; town; war; years cache: 2096.txt plain text: 2096.txt item: #10 of 26 id: 22677 author: Abbott, G. F. (George Frederick) title: Greece and the Allies 1914-1922 date: None words: 89771 flesch: 57 summary: Whereupon M. Venizelos withdrew his resignation. Of M. Zaimis's person he spoke with much respect; but of his policy he spoke just as one might have expected M. Venizelos to speak: M. Zaimis had broken the Servian Treaty and would go down to history as a man who had dishonoured the signature of Greece. keywords: action; admiral; allies; army; athens; attitude; balkan; book; british; bulgaria; case; country; cretan; day; england; entente; entente powers; forces; foreign; fournet; france; french; general; german; government; greece; greek; june; king; king constantine; london; m. briand; m. jonnart; m. skouloudis; m. venizelos; m. zaimis; macedonia; march; military; minister; moment; national; neutrality; new; order; paris; people; policy; powers; premier; prince; public; question; right; salonica; sarrail; sept; servia; state; time; troops; turkey; venizelist; war; way cache: 22677.txt plain text: 22677.txt item: #11 of 26 id: 23495 author: Guerber, H. A. (Hélène Adeline) title: The Story of the Greeks date: None words: 68343 flesch: 76 summary: Swift runners were dispatched in every direction with messages urging all the Greek cities to unite for the good of the country by sending as many brave men as possible to check the Persian army, and to try to hinder it from really entering Greece. They were the parents of a large family of sons and daughters; and among the sons were Hec´tor and Par´is, young men of remarkable strength and beauty. keywords: alcibiades; alexander; army; athenians; athens; away; battle; city; country; day; dead; death; father; friends; good; greece; greeks; help; home; honor; illustration; king; man; men; new; people; persian; philip; place; saw; set; socrates; soldiers; son; spartans; spite; temple; thought; time; tyrant; victory; war; way; years cache: 23495.txt plain text: 23495.txt item: #12 of 26 id: 27240 author: Abbott, Jacob title: Pyrrhus Makers of History date: None words: 59762 flesch: 62 summary: At length, little Pyrrhus, who was all the while lying at his feet, began to creep closer toward him; and, finally, taking hold of the king's robe, he began to climb up by it, and attempted to get into his lap, looking up into the king's face, at the same time, with a countenance in which the expression of confidence and hope was mingled with a certain instinctive infantile fear. B.C. 332-295 The family of Epirus.--Their difficulties.--The two Alexanders.--Their different destinies.--Adventures of Alexander of Macedon.--The Gulf of Tarentum.--Oracle of Dodona.--The equivocal prediction.--Pandosia.--The unexpected inundation.--Effects of it.--Bridge carried away.--The River of Sorrow.--Alexander killed.--His body falls into the river.--A woman rescues the remains.--Olympias.--Æacides marches to relieve Pydna.--The flight of the family with Pyrrhus.--The party meet with a narrow escape.--Ingenious mode of sending a letter.--The raft.--Pyrrhus is carried to Illyria.--Little Pyrrhus at the court of Glaucias.--Pyrrhus becomes a large boy.--Cassander's plans.--Glaucias establishes Pyrrhus on his throne.--Rebellion.--Pyrrhus once more an exile.--Pyrrhus enters into the service of Demetrius.--Pyrrhus acquires great renown.--He becomes a hostage.--The situation of a hostage.--Pyrrhus in the court of Ptolemy. keywords: alexander; antipater; army; battle; body; cassander; city; command; country; course; death; demetrius; epirus; fact; head; italy; king; length; macedon; means; men; olympias; people; place; polysperchon; power; ptolemy; pyrrhus; respect; romans; soldiers; son; time; troops; war; way cache: 27240.txt plain text: 27240.txt item: #13 of 26 id: 30624 author: Abbott, Jacob title: Alexander the Great Makers of History date: None words: 52915 flesch: 65 summary: Such acts of fidelity and courage as this had given Alexander great confidence in Clitus. Darius then took Polystratus, the Macedonian who had brought him the water, by the hand, saying, Give Alexander thy hand as I now give thee mine; it is the pledge of my gratitude and affection. keywords: alexander; army; asia; battle; body; character; city; country; course; darius; day; days; death; enemy; father; greece; king; land; left; length; life; macedon; march; means; men; mountains; officers; parmenio; pass; persian; philip; place; power; river; sea; soldiers; time; water; way; years cache: 30624.txt plain text: 30624.txt item: #14 of 26 id: 32318 author: Carroll, Mitchell title: Greek Women date: None words: 114006 flesch: 63 summary: Furthermore, great movements in the world's history are brought about only by great men and great women. Yet, when we estimate our sources of information, we find that there is no problem in the whole range of Greek life so difficult of solution as that concerning the status and character of Greek women. keywords: alexander; aphrodite; aspasia; athenian; athens; beauty; bride; brother; century; character; children; city; cleopatra; country; daughter; day; days; dear; death; domestic; end; evil; fair; father; form; girl; goddess; gods; good; grace; greece; greek; hand; head; heart; helen; hellas; hetæræ; history; home; honor; house; husband; influence; king; life; little; love; maidens; marriage; men; mother; nature; new; odysseus; people; philosophy; place; plutarch; poet; poetry; power; present; ptolemy; public; queen; return; sacred; sappho; sea; set; sex; son; soul; sparta; spirit; state; thee; thou; time; war; way; wife; woman; works; world; years; zeus cache: 32318.txt plain text: 32318.txt item: #15 of 26 id: 37889 author: Stephens, John L. title: Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia, and Poland, Vol. 1 (of 2) date: None words: 80202 flesch: 62 summary: It was not necessary, surrounded by such magnificent scenery, to draw upon historical recollections for the sake of giving interest to the road; still it did not diminish that interest to know that, many centuries ago, great cities stood here, whose sites are now desolate or occupied as the miserable gathering-places of a starving population. But high above the ruins of the modern city towers the Acropolis, holding up to the skies the ruined temples of other days, and proclaiming what Athens was. keywords: american; appearance; athens; black; city; coffee; corinth; country; day; days; door; evening; eyes; feet; friend; good; great; greece; greek; ground; half; hands; having; head; hill; home; hotel; hour; house; interest; island; land; left; life; man; men; morning; mountain; new; night; o'clock; people; place; plain; road; room; ruins; scene; sea; smyrna; streets; temple; things; time; turkish; turks; walls; way; women; world; years; young cache: 37889.txt plain text: 37889.txt item: #16 of 26 id: 37947 author: Stephens, John L. title: Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia, and Poland, Vol. 2 (of 2) date: None words: 82717 flesch: 58 summary: I have seen great cities desolate and in ruins, magnificent temples buried in the sands of the African desert, and places once teeming with fertility now lying waste and silent; but no monument of fallen greatness ever affected me more than this. Victor, with eight or ten thousand men, covered the retreat over the bridges, while behind his line thousands of stragglers, old men, women, and children, were wandering by the side of this river like the fabled spectres which throng the banks of the infernal Styx, seeking in vain for passage. keywords: army; battle; beautiful; church; city; companion; country; day; days; door; emperor; english; europe; eyes; feet; french; friend; gold; good; government; great; ground; hand; head; home; horses; hotel; journey; lady; left; life; looking; man; men; moment; morning; moscow; new; night; noble; o'clock; opposite; passport; people; petersburgh; place; poland; poles; polish; principal; return; road; room; russian; soldier; square; streets; time; town; traveller; trees; walls; warsaw; way cache: 37947.txt plain text: 37947.txt item: #17 of 26 id: 46508 author: Nixon-Roulet, Mary F. title: Our Little Grecian Cousin date: None words: 24499 flesch: 90 summary: You are a good child, Zoe, and little Zoe went happily to bed her heart warm at the thought that everybody seemed to love her, if she was an orphan and far away from home. Petro could think of more things to do in a minute than poor little Zoe could in an hour. keywords: aunt; baby; child; children; cousin=; day; father; good; grecian; greece; home; house; king; man; marco; maria; men; mother; people; petro; story; thought; time; uncle; zoe cache: 46508.txt plain text: 46508.txt item: #18 of 26 id: 4716 author: Davis, William Stearns title: A Day in Old Athens; a Picture of Athenian Life date: None words: 75385 flesch: 75 summary: The gulf between old Athens and, for instance, new Chicago is greater than is readily supposed[*]. The streets are much wider and are quite straight,[+] crossing at right angles, unlike the crooked alleys of old Athens which seem nothing but built-up cow trails. keywords: acropolis; agora; athenian; athens; attica; average; b.c; battle; beauty; body; business; case; chapter; children; citizen; city; close; country; course; court; day; days; death; dinner; enemy; fact; family; father; feet; form; friends; funeral; general; gods; good; great; greek; half; hands; home; house; kind; land; left; life; long; man; market; master; means; men; olive; peiræus; people; place; plato; proper; public; right; sacrifice; sea; set; slaves; socrates; state; study; temple; things; time; trireme; turn; walls; war; water; way; white; wine; women; work; world; year; young cache: 4716.txt plain text: 4716.txt item: #19 of 26 id: 6151 author: Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron title: Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Book I date: None words: 58803 flesch: 51 summary: During this period there occurred--not rapidly, but slowly--the most important revolution of early Greece, viz., the spread of that tribe termed the Hellenes, who gradually established their predominance throughout the land, impressed indelible traces on the national character, and finally converted their own into the national name. [102], Syracuse, the mightiest of Grecian offspring, and the daughter of Corinth,--the African Cyrene,--not enumerating settlements more probably referable to a later date, attested the active spirit and extended navigation of early Greece. keywords: age; athenian; athens; attica; authority; character; city; civilization; constitution; country; deities; dorians; earth; egyptian; general; genius; gods; government; grecian; greece; greeks; history; homer; influence; ionian; king; land; life; man; men; nature; oracle; origin; pelasgi; people; period; philosophy; poetry; population; power; race; religion; spartan; spirit; states; theseus; time; tribes; war; world cache: 6151.txt plain text: 6151.txt item: #20 of 26 id: 6152 author: Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron title: Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Book II date: None words: 48472 flesch: 59 summary: Lycurgus made machines and Solon men. Friends and allies, we acknowledge that we have erred; misled by deceiving oracles, we have banished from Athens men united to us by ancient hospitality. keywords: age; ambition; ancient; assembly; athenians; athens; authority; character; citizens; city; cleomenes; darius; force; general; government; grecian; greece; herodotus; hippias; homer; king; law; laws; lib; man; miletus; miltiades; number; people; persian; pisistratus; place; power; public; solon; son; sparta; spartans; spirit; state; time; tribes; tyranny; war; years cache: 6152.txt plain text: 6152.txt item: #21 of 26 id: 6153 author: Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron title: Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Book III date: None words: 44167 flesch: 57 summary: VII The Advice of Demaratus to Xerxes.--Themistocles.--Actions off Artemisium.--The Greeks retreat.--The Persians invade Delphi, and are repulsed with great Loss.--The Athenians, unaided by their Allies, abandon Athens, and embark for Salamis.--The irresolute and selfish Policy of the Peloponnesians.--Dexterity and Firmness of Themistocles.-- Battle of Salamis.--Andros and Carystus besieged by the Greeks.--Anecdotes of Themistocles.--Honours awarded to him in Sparta.--Xerxes returns to Asia.--Olynthus and Potidaea besieged by Artabazus.--The Athenians return Home.--The Ostracism of Aristides is repealed. VIII Embassy of Alexander of Macedon to Athens.--The Result of his Proposals.--Athenians retreat to Salamis.--Mardonius occupies Athens.--The Athenians send Envoys to Sparta.-- Pausanias succeeds Cleombrotus as Regent of Sparta.--Battle of Plataea.--Thebes besieged by the Athenians.--Battle of Mycale.--Siege of Sestos.--Conclusion of the Persian War. The Advice of Demaratus to Xerxes.--Themistocles.--Actions off Artemisium.--The Greeks retreat.--The Persians invade Delphi, and are repulsed with great Loss.--The Athenians, unaided by their Allies, abandon Athens, and embark for Salamis.--The irresolute and selfish Policy of the Peloponnesians.--Dexterity and Firmness of Themistocles.--Battle of Salamis.--Andros and Carystus besieged by the Greeks.--Anecdotes of Themistocles.--Honours awarded to him in Sparta.--Xerxes returns to Asia.--Olynthus and Potidaea besieged by Artabazus.--The Athenians return Home.--The Ostracism of Aristides is repealed. keywords: aeschylus; allies; aristides; arms; army; athenians; athens; barbarian; battle; character; chorus; city; command; darius; day; death; enemy; fleet; force; general; genius; grecian; greece; greeks; king; land; man; marathon; mardonius; men; people; persian; power; race; retreat; salamis; sea; ships; spartans; spirit; state; themistocles; thermopylae; time; vessels; war; xerxes cache: 6153.txt plain text: 6153.txt item: #22 of 26 id: 6154 author: Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron title: Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Book IV date: None words: 35898 flesch: 55 summary: Aristides, instead of naming Athens, which might have excited new jealousies, proposed the sacred Isle of Delos, a spot peculiarly appropriate, since it once had been the navel of the Ionian commerce, as the place of convocation and the common treasury: the temple was to be the senate house. Thus, at home and abroad, time and fortune, the concurrence of events, and the happy accident of great men, not only maintained the present eminence of Athens, but promised, to ordinary foresight, a long duration of her glory and her power. keywords: allies; ambition; aristides; athenians; athens; battle; cimon; city; command; fleet; general; government; grecian; greece; history; life; man; manners; nature; party; pausanias; people; pericles; persian; policy; power; public; sparta; spartans; spirit; state; themistocles; time; war cache: 6154.txt plain text: 6154.txt item: #23 of 26 id: 6155 author: Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron title: Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Book V date: None words: 44839 flesch: 68 summary: xv, Herod., lib. i., c. cxxxi., etc. [48] Among innumerable instances of the disdain of human life contracted after their conquest by those very Persians who, in their mountain obscurity, would neither permit their sovereign to put any one to death for a single offence, nor the master of a household to exercise undue severity to a member of his family (Herod., lib. i., c. cxxxvii.), is one recorded by Herodotus, and in the main corroborated by Justin. keywords: aeschylus; age; allies; antigone; art; athenian; athens; character; chorus; cimon; city; creon; day; death; electra; father; genius; greece; greek; herodotus; king; lib; life; man; men; nature; oedipus; orestes; people; pericles; period; play; plut; plutarch; poet; power; public; son; sophocles; state; thucydides; time; vit; war; years cache: 6155.txt plain text: 6155.txt item: #24 of 26 id: 6200 author: Dickinson, G. Lowes (Goldsworthy Lowes) title: The Greek View of Life date: None words: 69649 flesch: 62 summary: The question haunts the mind; it will not be put aside; and the Greek at last, like other men under similar conditions, only with a lucidity and precision peculiar to himself, makes the reply, it is something like myself. 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. keywords: aristotle; art; athens; beauty; body; character; children; citizen; city; class; conception; end; example; fact; footnote; form; general; gods; good; greece; greek; hand; human; ideal; individual; law; life; love; man; men; mind; moral; music; nature; place; plato; point; public; relation; religion; section; sense; socrates; soul; state; time; view; virtue; way; world; zeus cache: 6200.txt plain text: 6200.txt item: #25 of 26 id: 6841 author: Wilson, Robert Pierpont title: Mosaics of Grecian History date: None words: 158271 flesch: 69 summary: He sought Crotona's pure, salubrious air, And through great Greece his gentle wisdom taught. In various periods of the world great men have arisen, under very different circumstances, to astonish and delight it; but that the intuitive power should be so strangely diffused, at any one period, among a great number, who should leave no successors behind them, is unworthy of credit. keywords: account; achilles; age; aid; air; alexander; arms; army; asia; athenian; athens; b.c; battle; beauty; character; chief; cities; city; close; come; corinth; country; day; days; death; demosthenes; earth; expedition; fair; fall; fame; fate; father; field; fire; following; footnote; force; form; free; freedom; general; genius; glory; goddess; gods; good; government; grecian; greece; greek; hand; head; heart; heaven; hector; history; homer; influence; island; jove; jupiter; king; land; language; liberty; life; light; like; literature; little; long; love; macedon; man; marathon; men; mind; modern; mountain; native; nature; new; o'er; people; pericles; period; persian; philip; philosophy; place; plain; poet; poetry; power; public; race; river; roman; round; sea; socrates; son; song; sons; soul; sparta; spartans; spirit; state; subject; temple; thee; thou; thy; time; troy; victory; voice; walls; war; wars; wild; works; world; xerxes; years cache: 6841.txt plain text: 6841.txt item: #26 of 26 id: 7142 author: Thucydides title: The History of the Peloponnesian War date: None words: 205822 flesch: 52 summary: Such is the list of the peoples, Hellenic and barbarian, inhabiting Sicily, and such the magnitude of the island which the Athenians were now bent upon invading; being ambitious in real truth of conquering the whole, although they had also the specious design of succouring their kindred and other allies in the island. Tenth Year of the War--Death of Cleon and Brasidas--Peace of Nicias CHAPTER XVI Feeling against Sparta in Peloponnese--League of the Mantineans, Eleans, Argives, and Athenians--Battle of Mantinea and breaking up of the League CHAPTER XVII Sixteenth Year of the War--The Melian Conference--Fate of Melos BOOK VI CHAPTER XVIII Seventeenth Year of the War--The Sicilian Campaign--Affair of the Hermae--Departure of the Expedition CHAPTER XIX Seventeenth Year of the War--Parties at Syracuse-- Story of Harmodius and Aristogiton-- Disgrace of Alcibiades CHAPTER XX Seventeenth and Eighteenth Years of the War-- Inaction of the Athenian Army--Alcibiades at Sparta--Investment of Syracuse BOOK VII CHAPTER XXI Eighteenth and Nineteenth Years of the War-- Arrival of Gylippus at Syracuse--Fortification of Decelea--Successes of the Syracusans CHAPTER XXII Nineteenth Year of the War--Arrival of Demosthenes--Defeat of the Athenians at Epipolae-- Folly and Obstinacy of Nicias CHAPTER XXIII Nineteenth Year of the War--Battles in the Great Harbour--Retreat and Annihilation of the Athenian Army BOOK VIII CHAPTER XXIV Nineteenth and Twentieth Years of the War-- Revolt of Ionia--Intervention of Persia--The War in Ionia CHAPTER XXV Twentieth and Twenty-first Years of the War-- Intrigues of Alcibiades--Withdrawal of the Persian Subsidies--Oligarchical Coup d'Etat at Athens--Patriotism of the Army at Samos CHAPTER XXVI Twenty first Year of the War--Recall of Alcibiades to Samos--Revolt of Euboea and Downfall of the Four Hundred--Battle of Cynossema BOOK I CHAPTER keywords: alcibiades; alliance; allies; argives; army; athenians; athens; attack; battle; boeotians; brasidas; cities; city; coming; command; corinthians; country; danger; day; demosthenes; enemies; enemy; envoys; expedition; fear; fleet; force; good; having; heavy; hellenes; home; infantry; island; king; lacedaemonians; land; left; men; moment; nicias; number; order; party; peloponnese; peloponnesians; people; place; power; present; rest; right; round; sail; samos; sea; set; ships; son; state; summer; syracusans; taking; territory; thought; time; tissaphernes; town; treaty; troops; vessels; wall; war; way cache: 7142.txt plain text: 7142.txt