Research Catalog

Title

A history of Greece from the earliest times to the present. By T. T. Timayenis.

Author

Timayenis, T. T. (Telemachus Thomas), 1853-

Publication

New York, London, D. Appleton, 1883 [c1880]

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Details

Description

2 v. port., maps (part fold.); 20 cm.

Subject

• 323-1453
• Greece > History
• Greece > History > History. > 323-1453
• Greece > History > 323-1453

Genre/Form

History

Note

• First published 1881.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• V.1 -- The mythological age -- Legends of gods and men -- The voyage of the Argonauts -- The seven against Thebes -- The war against Troy -- Society in the heroic age -- The dawn of history -- Eastern provinces -- Western provinces -- The Peloponnesus -- Attica -- The Hellenic colonies -- Literature: social and religious bonds -- The Persian wars -- Persia -- First Persian invasion -- Battle of Marathon -- Second Persian invasion -- Thermopylae and Artemisium -- Salamis -- Results of the battle -- Expulsion of the Persians -- Contemporaneous war in Sicily -- Athenian supremacy -- Fortification of Athens -- naval supremacy of the Athenians -- Death of Pausanias, Themistokles, and Aristeides -- Kimon and Perikles -- Rapid expansion of the Athenian empire -- The long walls -- Culmination of the Athenian supremacy -- Preliminaries of the Peloponnesian war -- Events before the Peloponnesian war -- The Peloponnesian war -- Commencement of hostilities -- First two years of the war -- Pylos and Sphakteria -- Defeat of the Athenians -- Alkibiades -- Changes in the Athenian constitution -- Athenian successes and madness -- Fall of the Athenian empire -- Hegemony of Sparta -- State of Hellas after the war -- Cyrus and the ten thousand -- Early decline of the Spartan rule -- The war against the Persians -- The Boeotian and Corinthian wars -- The peace of Antalkidas -- Liberation of Thebes.
• V. 2 -- Theban supremacy -- Rise of Theban power -- Operations in south and north Hellas -- Culmination of Theban power -- Rise of Macedonia -- Macedonian Hellenism -- Extension and reorganizations -- The Phokian and Olynthian wars -- Last days of Philip -- Alexander the great -- Battles of Granikus and Issus -- Further victories of Alexander -- Alexander's progress to India -- Last days of Alexander -- The successors -- Regency of Perdikkas -- The struggle for supremacy -- Antipater and Polysperchon -- Antigonus and Eumenes -- Antigonus and his son Demetrius -- The exploits of Demetrius -- Last days of Alexander's generals -- The invasion of the Gauls -- State of the Hellenic world -- The Roman conquest -- The Roman supremacy -- Affairs in Hellas -- Barbarians and Christians -- Constantine the great -- Constantius and Julian -- Jovian to Theodosius I -- Arcadius and Honorius -- Theodosius II -- End of the Roman rule -- Byzantine Hellenism -- Heraklius -- Constantine IV to Leo III -- Leo III to Leo V -- The dynasty of Michael II -- The Macedonian dynasty: the Comneni -- The Latin and Turkish conquests -- Modern Hellenism -- Turkish rule -- The Greek revolution -- The kingdom of Greece.

LCCN

^^^41010390^

OCLC

• 2582441
• SCSB-11489537

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library