Pagina:Second Latin reading book With Key.pdf/9

Greeks—Plans for the Defence af Greece—The Result of their Deliberations—The Battle of Thermopylae—The Battle of Artemisium—The Destruction of Athens—Themistocles preventa the Greeks from retreating—The Battle of Salamis—Xerxes retreats to Asia—Defeat of the Carthaginians by the Sicilian Greeks—The Greeks take the field against Mardonius—The Battle of Platea—Ionia delivered from the Persian Yoke—Why Greece was able to repel the Invader—Themistocles fortifies Athens—Byzantium—The Treachery of Pausanias—The Spartan and Athenian Leagues—The Results of the Confederacy of Delos—Banishment of Themistocles—Reforms introduced by the Conservatives at Athens—Pericles and the Liberal Policy—Pericles in Power—Wars at Home and Abroad—The Treachery of the Thebans—The Long Walls—The Turn of the Tide—Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War—Pericles’s Ministry—The Plans of the Leaders—The Sufferings of the Athenians—Siege of Platea—Phormio defeats the Peloponnesians at Sea—Revolt of Mitylene—The Spartan Disaster at Sphacteria—Athenian Reverses in Boeotia and Thrace—Peace of Nikias—Alcibiades and the Argive League—Preparations for an Expedition to Sicily—Alcibiades accused of Sacrilege—His Treachery—The Siege of Syracuse—Athenian Disasters—Athenian Reinforcements—The End of the Expedition—Athens in Danger—Alliance between Spartans and Persians—Alcibiades intrigues—The Four Hundred—Feeling of the Army and the Fleet—The Fall of the Four Hundred—Athenian Victories at Sea—The Battle of Aegospotami—The End of the Peloponnesian War—The Thirty Tyrants—Supremacy of Sparta—Civil War among the Persians—War between Sparta and Persia—Alliance against the Spartans—The Peace of Antalcidas—Pelopidas—The Athenian League—Supremacy of Thebes—The growing Power of Macedonia—Philippus in Thrace—The Sacred War—The Fall of Olynthus—Philippus and Demosthenes—Result of Demosthenes’s Vigour—Philippus Master of Greece—Death of Philippus.