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PELOPIDAS AND EPAMINONDAS When Sparta heard that Artaxerxes had been able neither to force the ten thousand to surrender nor to slay them, she thought that his army could not be very powerful. So, c…
THE SEVEN CONSPIRATORS Three years passed before the Theban exiles, encouraged by Pelopidas, formed a plot to deliver their city from the Spartans. They were helped in their plans by Phyllidas, a Th…
THE BATTLE OF LEUCTRA Thebes had always been a dull, unambitious, little town, but now her ambition awoke. She was not content only to be free, she wished to become the most important town in Bœotia…
THE DEATH OF EPAMINONDAS Thebes was now the most powerful city in Greece. But Epaminondas was not yet content. He wished to invade Sparta. In November 370 B.C. he marched with his army into Arcadia…
THE TWO BROTHERS The city of Corinth stood upon the narrow isthmus that joined the mainland of Greece to the Peloponnesian peninsula. She had two harbours, a large fleet, and she carried on a prospe…
TIMOLEON SENDS DIONYSIUS TO CORINTH Timoleon was ready to sail to Sicily with a fleet of seven vessels and a force of about one thousand men, when a message from Icetes reached the Corinthians. The …
ICETES TRIES TO SLAY TIMOLEON The small band of Corinthians who now held the citadel of Syracuse was closely besieged by Icetes. But soon he grew tired of waiting for it to surrender and hit, as he …
THE BATTLE OF CRIMISUS The exiles who had returned to Sicily, and the colonists who had come to settle there, were needed, not only to till the ground but to defend the island. For the Carthaginians…
DEMOSTHENES WISHES TO BECOME AN ORATOR Demosthenes, the great Athenian orator, was born in 384 B.C. He was a shy and delicate boy, and often stammered when he spoke. Some of his companions were cru…
DEMOSTHENES THE GREATEST ORATOR OF ATHENS Demosthenes had spoken in the law courts, but he was not content. His great ambition now was to speak in the assembly of Athens. He wished to remind the Ath…
