Library
Search
104 Chapters
SOCRATES THE PHILOSOPHER Socrates was born in 469 B.C. He was not a noble like Alcibiades, but a man of humble birth. Nor was he handsome as was his disciple, but plain, even ugly, the people said.…
ALCIBIADES PRAISES SOCRATES One of the most famous disciples of Socrates was Plato. He loved his master well, and wrote down many of his conversations, so that his words may still be read. In a book…
THE IMAGES OF HERMES ARE DESTROYED In the island of Sicily there were many different states. In some of these dwelt Greeks who owned Corinth as their mother-city. Trade between Sicily and Corinth wa…
ALCIBIADES ESCAPES TO SPARTA A great crowd gathered at the Piræeus to see the fleet set sail for Sicily. Groups clustered together, talking eagerly of the new empire that was to be won in the West, …
THE SIEGE OF SYRACUSE Nicias and Lamachus now determined to attack Syracuse without delay. They succeeded in seizing the high ground which joined the town to the mainland of Sicily. Across this grou…
THE ATHENIAN ARMY IS DESTROYED The Athenians made their preparations to retreat as secretly as possible, but the Syracusans soon discovered their plans. When they heard that their departure was dela…
ALCIBIADES RETURNS TO ATHENS Alcibiades fled from the Athenians to Sparta, but he did not stay there long, for he soon grew tired of living as simply and frugally as the people of that country. He h…
ANTIOCHUS DISOBEYS ALCIBIADES The king of Persia was not pleased with his governor Tissaphernes, because he had made an alliance with neither the Athenians nor the Spartans. So he now sent his young…
THE WALLS OF ATHENS ARE DESTROYED The last battle of the Peloponnesian War was fought in the Hellespont in 405 B.C. The Athenians had drawn up their ships near a desolate spot named Ægospotami, and…
THE MARCH OF THE TEN THOUSAND In 404 B.C. , soon after the disaster of Ægospotami, Darius, king of Persia, died. His eldest son Artaxerxes succeeded to his father’s throne. Cyrus, the younger son, w…
