Lord Lytton's Miscellaneous Works, Volume 1G. Routledge and Sons, 1874 |
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Achæans Ægina afterwards allies ambassadors ambition amongst ancient appears Aristides aristocracy Aristotle arms army assembly Athenians Athens Attica authority Barbarian battle became Boeotia Cecrops character Chorus Cimon citizens Cleomenes colonies command commenced common conquest constitution Corinth Darius death deities Delphi democracy despatched divine Dorian Edipus Egypt Egyptian enemy ephors equally Eschylus favour fleet force genius gods Grecian Greece Greeks Hellenic Helots hero Herodotus Hippias Homer honour hundred influence Ionian king land laws less liberty Marathon Mardonius Medes ment Miletus Miltiades monarch nature neighbouring nobles oligarchy once oracle Orestes party passion Pausanias Pelasgi Peloponnesus Pericles Persian philosophy Phoenician Pisistratus Plut Plutarch poet poetry political popular possessed probably race religion rendered sacred Salamis seems solemn Solon Sophocles Spartan spirit supposed temple Themistocles Theseus Thessaly thousand throne Thucyd Thucydides tion tribes tyranny tyrant valour vessels victory Xerxes
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Page 487 - Athens would not at first have recognised the claims of the mistress of Grecian art. But to the homeliness of her common thoroughfares and private mansions, the magnificence of her public edifices now made a dazzling contrast. The Acropolis that towered above the homes and thoroughfares of men — a spot too sacred for human habitation — became, to use a proverbial phrase, 'a city of the gods.
Page 367 - Thebans — (three hundred of whose principal warriors fell in the field) — and now joined the Spartans at the Persian camp. The Athenians are said to have been better skilled in the art of siege than the Spartans ; yet at that time their experience could scarcely have been greater. The Athenians were at all times, however, of a more impetuous temper; and the men who had ' run to the charge' at Marathon, were not to be baffled by the desperate remnant of their ancient foe.
Page 280 - On— on the fiery glory rode— Thy lonely lake, Gorgopis/ glowed— To Megara's Mount it came ; They feed it again, ^ And it streams amain — A giant beard of flame ! The headland cliffs that darkly down O'er the Saronic waters frown, Are...
Page 533 - Crashed the frail axle : headlong from the car, Caught and all meshed within the reins, he fell ; And masterless the mad steeds raged along ! Loud from that mighty multitude arose A shriek — a shout ! But yesterday such deeds, To-day such doom ! Now whirled upon the earth, Now his limbs dashed aloft, they dragged him — those Wild horses— till all gory from the wheels Released, — and no man, not his nearest friends, Could in that mangled corpse have traced Orestes.
Page 257 - ... troops, undismayed, smote on with spear and sword. The barbarians retreated backward to the sea, where swamps and marshes encumbered their movements, and here (though the Athenians did not pursue them far) the greater portion were slain, hemmed in by the morasses, and probably ridden down by their own disordered cavalry. Meanwhile, the two tribes that had formed the centre, one of which was commanded by Aristides,* retrieved themselves with a mighty effort, and the two wings, having routed their...