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The Story of the Greeks

H.A. Guerber's complete narrative history of ancient Greece

Source:H.A. Guerber (Gutenberg)
Grade:4
Lessons:115
Difficulty:
ancient greecedemocracyphilosophyheroism

Lessons

1

Early Inhabitants of Greece

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2

The Deluge of Ogyges

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3

The Founding of Many Important Cities

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4

Story of Deucalion

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5

Story of Daedalus and Icarus

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6

The Adventures of Jason

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7

Theseus Visits the Labyrinth

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8

The Terrible Prophecy

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9

The Sphinx's Riddle

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10

Blindness and Death of Oedipus

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11

The Brothers' Quarrel

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12

The Taking of Thebes

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13

The Childhood of Paris

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14

The Muster of the Troops

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15

The Sacrifice of Iphigenia

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16

The Wrath of Achilles

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17

Death of Hector and Achilles

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18

The Burning of Troy

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19

Heroic Death of Codrus

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20

The Blind Poet

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21

The Rise of Sparta

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22

The Spartan Training

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23

The Brave Spartan Boy

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24

Public Tables in Sparta

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25

Laws of Lycurgus

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26

The Messenian War

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27

The Music of Tyrtaeus

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28

Aristomenes' Escape

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29

The Olympic Games

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30

Milo of Croton

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31

The Jealous Athlete

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32

The Girls' Games

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33

The Bloody Laws of Draco

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34

The Laws of Solon

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35

The First Plays

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36

The Tyrant Pisistratus

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37

The Tyrant's Insult

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38

Death of the Conspirators

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39

Hippias Driven Out of Athens

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40

The Great King

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41

Hippias Visits Darius

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42

Destruction of the Persian Host

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43

The Advance of the Second Host

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44

The Battle of Marathon

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45

Miltiades' Disgrace

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46

Aristides the Just

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47

Two Noble Spartan Youths

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48

The Great Army

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49

Preparations For Defense

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50

Leonidas at Thermopylae

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51

Death of Leonidas

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52

The Burning of Athens

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53

The Battles of Salamis and Plataea

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54

The Rebuilding of Athens

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55

Death of Pausanias

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56

Cimon Improves Athens

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57

The Earthquake

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58

The Age of Pericles

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59

The Teachings of Anaxagoras

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60

Beginning of the Peloponnesian War

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61

Death of Pericles

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62

The Philosopher Socrates

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63

Socrates' Favorite Pupil

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64

Youth of Alcibiades

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65

Greek Colonies in Italy

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66

Alcibiades in Disgrace

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67

Death of Alcibiades

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68

The Overthrow of the Thirty Tyrants

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69

Accusation of Socrates

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70

Death of Socrates

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71

The Defeat of Cyrus

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72

The Retreat of the Ten Thousand

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73

Agesilaus in Asia

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74

A Strange Interview

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75

The Peace of Antalcidas

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76

The Theban Friends

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77

Thebes Free Once More

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78

The Battle of Leuctra

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79

Death of Pelopidas

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80

The Battle of Mantinea

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81

The Tyrant of Syracuse

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82

Story of Damon and Pythias

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83

The Sword of Damocles

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84

Dion and Dionysius

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85

Civil War in Syracuse

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86

Death of Dion

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87

Philip of Macedon

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88

Philip Begins His Conquests

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89

The Orator Demosthenes

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90

Philip Masters Greece

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91

Birth of Alexander

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92

The Steed Bucephalus

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93

Alexander As King

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94

Alexander and Diogenes

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95

Alexander's Brilliant Beginning

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96

The Gordian Knot

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97

Alexander's Royal Captives

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98

Alexander at Jerusalem

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99

The African Desert

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100

Death of Darius

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101

Defeat of Porus

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102

The Return to Babylon

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103

Death of Alexander the Great

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104

The Division of the Realm

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105

Death of Demosthenes

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106

The Last of the Athenians

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107

The Colossus of Rhodes

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108

The Battle of Ipsus

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109

Demetrius and the Athenians

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110

The Achaean League

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111

Division in Sparta

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112

Death of Agis

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113

The War of the Two Leagues

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114

The Last of the Greeks

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115

Greece a Roman Province

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