ATHENS: ITS RISE AND FALL

by

Edward Bulwer Lytton

     
BOOK I FROM THE EARLIEST PERIOD TO THE LEGISLATION OF SOLON, B.C. TO B.C. 594.
  CH. I The Foundation of Athens
  CH.II Attic Kings before Theseus
  CH. III Legislative Influence of Theseus upon Athens.
  CH. IV The Successors of Theseus
  CH. V A General Survey of Greece and the East previous to the time of Solon
  CH. VI Return of the Heraclidae.—The Spartan Constitution—The Messenian Wars.
  CH.VII Governments in Greece.
  CH.VIII Brief Survey of Arts, Letters, and Philosophy in Greece, prior to the Legislation of Solon.
BOOK II FROM THE LEGISLATION OF SOLON TO THE BATTLE OF MARATHON, B. C. 594-490.
  CH. I The Legislation of Solon
  CH. II The Tyranny of Pisistratus
  CH. III The fall of the Tyranny and the innovations of Clisthenes
  CH. IV Darius resolves to conquer Athens
  CH. V The Battle of Marathon.
BOOK III FROM THE BATTLE OF MARATHON TO THE BATTLES OF PLATAEA AND MYCALE, B. C. 490—B. C. 479.
  CH. I The rise and decline of Miltiades.
  CH.II The Athenian Tragedy and Aeschylus
  CH. III The Rise of Themistocles and the decline of Aristides
  CH. IV Dispute for the Succession to Darius's Throne
  CH. V Xerxes builds a Bridge across the Hellespont
  CH. VI King Leonidas writes his name on the Walls of Thermopylae.
  CH.VII Themistocles walks on the waters of Salamis
  CH.VIII Battles of Plataea and Mycale
BOOK IV FROM THE END OF THE PERSIAN INVASION TO THE DEATH OF CIMON. B. C. 479—B. C. 449.
  CH. I The Ionian League and the fall of Themistocles
  CH.II Conspiracy and Fate of Pausanias
  CH. III Rise of Pericles and fall of Cimon
  CH. IV Athenians versus Peloponnesians
  CH. V The craddle of Philosophy
BOOK V FROM THE DEATH OF CIMON, B. C. 449, TO THE DEATH OF PERICLES, IN THE THIRD YEAR OF THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR, B. C. 429.
  CH. I Thucydides versus Pericles
  CH.II Vices and Greatness of Athens
  CH. III Rise and Progress of the Athenian Comedy to the Time of Aristophanes.
  CH. IV The Tragedies of Sophocles.