Identifier: storyofgreatestn02elli (find matches)
Title: The story of the greatest nations, from the dawn of history to the twentieth century : a comprehensive history, founded upon the leading authorities, including a complete chronology of the world, and a pronouncing vocabulary of each nation
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Ellis, Edward Sylvester, 1840-1916 Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis), 1870-1942
Subjects: World history
Publisher: New York : F.R. Niglutsch
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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igue, always eager to mine deeper than other men and show himself sub-tler than they, had taken some hand in the conspiracy, what, we hardly know.The Spartans eagerly sent the proofs of this to Athens, whence he had beenalready temporarily ostracized on a lesser suspicion of bribery. Themistoclesdid not wait for a trial, which must inevitably have convicted him; he fled toPersia. Romance entwines all his later career. His flight is represented as full ofadventures. The successor of Xerxes was so delighted at his arrival that hestarted repeatedly from his sleep, crying, I have got Themistocles, the Athe-nian. The fugitive asked a year to learn the language before visiting thePersian king, and then presented to him such schemes for conquering Greecethat the tribute of three cities was given him for his support. Year after yearhe delayed putting his plans for the conquest into action, until he died, perhapstaking poison when he could no longer delay the promise he had never meantto keep.
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Greece—The Beautifying of Athens 215 At the beginning of his career he had been only moderately rich, his for-tune amounting to two or three talents; but he left vast estates to his descend-ants in Persia. In Athens, too, even after his friends had saved for him allthey could, there had remained of his, and been confiscated by the state, theenormous fortune of eighty talents, an astounding sum in those days, and asufficient commentary on his public career. Aristides, dying soon afterward,had to be buried at the public expense. Of all the wealth that had passedthrough his hands in connection with the Delian league, not one penny hadclung to soil them. Of the younger generation of statesmen who succeeded these, the mostfamous was Pericles. Indeed, this is often called, after him, the Age of Per-icles. He was the son of the Athenian commander at Mycale, and himselffought as a youth against the Persians. He became the leader of the peoplesparty or democracy of Athens. Changes had been m

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