Part 43 (2/2)

M572 Cause of the fall of Athens. Miserable spirit of the war. Alcibiades the evil genius of Athens. His inglorious death.

M573 Glory of Lysander.

M574 Effect of the Peloponnesian war.

M575 The real ends of Cyrus disguised.

M576 Mercenary Greeks enlist under Cyrus.

M577 Character of Cyrus. High estimation in which he held the Greeks.

M578 He dissembles his designs.

M579 He commences his march.

M580 Character of the Greeks who joined his standard.

M581 Xenophon.

M582 Cyrus reviews his army. The Greeks perceive that they have been deceived.

M583 Cyrus crosses into Syria. He crosses the Euphrates. Battle of Cunaxa.

M584 Dismay of the Greeks. They retreat.

M585 Their forlorn condition.

M586 Deceitful negotiations of the Persians.

M587 The Persian king aims at their overthrow.

M588 The despair of the Greeks.

M589 Xenophon rallies the Greeks.

M590 Their retreat to the Tigris. Their perils and hards.h.i.+ps.

M591 The march through Armenia. They reach the Euxine.

M592 New troubles and dangers.

M593 They pa.s.s by sea to Sinope. Their courage and faith.

M594 They reach Byzantium.

M595 But are excluded from the city. They enlist in the service of Sparta.

M596 Moral effect of the expedition.

M597 Sparta never lost her power.

M598 Continued glory of Athens also.

M599 Consequences of the Peloponnesian war.

M600 Paramount authority of Sparta after the victories of Lysander.

M601 Sparta incurs the jealousy of Greece.

M602 Her oppressive superiority.

M603 Effect of the tyrannical policy of Sparta.

M604 Renewal of the war with Persia.

M605 Agesilaus, king of Sparta.

M606 Recall of Agesilaus from the war.

M607 Discontent of the Grecian States. Alienation of the allies of Sparta.

M608 Enrichment of Sparta.

M609 Conspiracy against the States.

M610 Lacedaemonian fleet threatened. Naval victory over the Lacedaemonians.

M611 Revolt of Thebes.

M612 Renewed power of the city.

M613 Battle of Coronaea.

M614 Decline of Sparta.

M615 Corinth becomes the seat of war.

M616 Great disaster to Sparta.

M617 Sparta invokes the aid of Persia.

M618 Death of Thrasybulus.

M619 Investment of Rhodes. Evil consequences of the rivalries of the Grecian States.

M620 Thebes.

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