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SOLON FREES THE SLAVES Solon, the wise lawgiver of Athens, was a descendant of King Codrus. His father had given away most of his wealth to help his city or his countrymen, so Solon became a merchan…
THE ATHENIANS TAKE SALAMIS Salamis, an island lying about a mile from both Athens and Megara, was in the hands of the Megarians. Its position between the two States made it an important one. So the …
PISISTRATUS BECOMES TYRANT Solon did not expect the laws he made to please each of the three parties in Attica. So he was not greatly surprised that while the Plain and the Coast were more or less c…
HARMODIUS AND ARISTOGITON Hippias and Hipparchus were as eager as their father Pisistratus had been to govern Athens well. Nor did they quarrel as to the way in which they could best do this, as bro…
THE LAW OF OSTRACISM After Cleisthenes had set Athens free from the rule of Hippias, he began to reform the laws and to make Athens a more democratic State than she had yet been. Until now the Athen…
THE BRIDGE OF BOATS Along the western shore of Asia Minor there were many Greek colonies. One of these was called Ionia, and the chief city of the Ionian state was Miletus. The Greeks who lived in t…
DARIUS REWARDS HISTIAEUS Meanwhile a band of Scythians had reached the banks of the Danube. The Ionians had already loosed some of the boats on the farther side, that the enemy might think that the …
HISTIAEUS SHAVES THE HEAD OF HIS SLAVE For a few years after Histiaeus was summoned to Susa, the Greek cities in Asia showed no disloyalty. But about 500 B.C. the people of Naxos, an island in the …
SARDIS IS DESTROYED The Ionians knew that they would not be able to throw off the Persian yoke without help from their kinsfolk in Greece. So Aristagoras was appointed to go to Sparta to beg king Cl…
THE SANDAL SEWN BY HISTIAEUS Now when Darius heard that Sardis had been destroyed, he sent for Histiaeus and said to him, ‘O Histiaeus, I hear that the man to whom thou hast given thy city has been …
