Athens - Its Rise and Fall

Athens - Its Rise and Fall

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, english novelist, poet, playwright, and politician (1803-1873)


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Table of Contents

-01- About this book

-02- DEDICATION

-03- ADVERTISEMENT

-04- BOOK I. ATHENS - ITS RISE AND FALL

-05- CHAPTER I. SITUATION AND SOIL OF ATTICA

-06- CHAPTER II. THE UNIMPORTANT CONSEQUENCES TO BE DEDUCED FROM THE ADMISSION THAT CECROPS MIGHT BE EGYPTIAN

-07- CHAPTER III. THE HEROIC AGE

-08- CHAPTER IV. THE SUCCESSORS OF THESEUS

-09- CHAPTER V. A GENERAL SURVEY OF GREECE AND THE EAST PREVIOUS TO THE TIME OF SOLON

-10- CHAPTER VI. RETURN OF THE HERACLIDAE

-11- CHAPTER VII. GOVERNMENTS IN GREECE

-12- CHAPTER VIII. BRIEF SURVEY OF ARTS

-13- BOOK II. FROM THE LEGISLATION OF SOLON TO THE BATTLE OF MARATHON

-14- CHAPTER I. THE CONSPIRACY OF CYLON

-15- CHAPTER II. THE DEPARTURE OF SOLON FROM ATHENS

-16- CHAPTER III. THE ADMINISTRATION OF HIPPIAS

-17- CHAPTER IV. HISTIAEUS, TYRANT OF MILETUS, REMOVED TO PERSIA

-18- CHAPTER V. THE PERSIAN GENERALS ENTER EUROPE

-19- BOOK III. THE BATTLE OF MARATHON TO THE BATTLES OF PLATAEA AND MYCALE

-20- CHAPTER I. THE CHARACTER AND POPULARITY OF MILTIADES

-21- CHAPTER II. THE ATHENIAN TRAGEDY

-22- CHAPTER III. ARISTIDES

-23- CHAPTER IV. THE PREPARATIONS OF DARIUS

-24- CHAPTER V. XERXES CONDUCTS AN EXPEDITION INTO EGYPT

-25- CHAPTER VI. THE CONDUCT OF THE GREEKS

-26- CHAPTER VII. THE ADVICE OF DEMARATUS TO XERXES

-27- CHAPTER VIII. EMBASSY OF ALEXANDER OF MACEDON TO ATHENS

-28- BOOK IV. FROM THE END OF THE PERSIAN INVASION TO THE DEATH OF CIMON

-29- CHAPTER I. REMARKS ON THE EFFECTS OF WAR

-30- CHAPTER II. POPULARITY AND POLICY OF CIMON

-31- CHAPTER III. REDUCTION OF NAXOS

-32- CHAPTER IV. WAR BETWEEN MEGARA AND CORINTH

-33- CHAPTER V. CHANGE OF MANNERS IN ATHENS

-34- BOOK V. FROM THE DEATH OF CIMON, TO THE DEATH OF PERICLES

-35- CHAPTER I. THUCYDIDES CHOSEN BY THE ARISTOCRATIC PARTY TO OPPOSE PERICLES

-36- CHAPTER II. CAUSES OF THE POWER OF PERICLES

-37- CHAPTER III. REVISION OF THE CENSUS

-38- CHAPTER IV. THE TRAGEDIES OF SOPHOCLES

-39- FOOTNOTES