Famous Men of Greece

Jason_Poisoning_the_Dragon by Salvator Rosa

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Preface

The Gods of Greece

Deucalion and the Flood

Cadmon and the Dragon’s Teeth

Perseus

Hercules and Hesione, Raoul Lefèvre, Histoires de Troyes, 15 century

Hercules and his Labors

Jason and the Golden Fleece

Theseus

Agamemnon

Achilles

L'ira di Achille, 1819, di Jacques-Louis David

Adventures of Ulysses

Lycurgus

Draco and Solon

Pisistratus

Miltiades the Hero of Marathon

Marathon, photo by Adam Carr

Leonidas at Thermopylae

Themistocles

Aristides the Just

Cimon

Pericles

Alcibiades

Lysander

Socrates in The School of Athens by Sanzio

Socrates

Xenophon

Epaminondas and Pelopidas

Philip of Macedonia

Battle_of_Issus, detail, by_Altdorfer 1529

Alexander the Great

Demosthenes

Aristotle, Zeno, Diogenes and Apelles

Ptolemy

Pyrrhus

Tindary_greek_ruins, photo by Dedda71

Cleomenes III

The Fall of Greece