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next of historians and poets ; and lastly of philosophers and men 

 of science. The heroes of the Trojan war, Jlchilles, Ulysses, 

 Agamemnon, and others, are chiefly celebrated by Homer, and 

 belong to the age of tradition. Of Grecian lawgivers, Lycurgus, 

 884, and Solon, 594 B. C., have been already mentioned. The as- 

 piring Pisistratus, died about 527 B. C. ; and his sons Hipparchus 

 and Hippias, were expelled from the government of Athens. The 

 principal generals of Greece in the Persian wars, were Miltiades, 

 who died about 489 B.C.; Leonidas, of Sparta, who fell 480 B.C.; 

 ftristidest called the Just, who died about 467 ; Themistocles, who 

 died 449 ; Pausanias, who died 471 ; and Cimon, the son of 

 Miltiades, who died 449 B. C. Pericles, the Athenian leader, died 

 of the plague, 429 B. C. ; Jllcibiades , of Athens, was slain 404 ; 

 Conon, of Athens, died 393 ; and Lysander, of Sparta, the victor in 

 .he Peloponnesian war, fell in the Theban war, 394 B. C. Pelopidas, 

 of Thebes, fell in battle, 364 ; and Epaminondas, who defended 

 Thebes against Sparta, also fell gloriously, 363 B.C. Jlgesilaus, 

 of Sparta, died 306 B.C. ; and Phocion, the virtuous statesman of 

 Athens, was put to death, 318 B. C. We have further room to men- 

 tion only Philoposmen, general of the Achaean league, who was put 

 to death, 183 B. C., and has been styled the last of the Greeks. Of 

 the Grecian orators, Lysias died 379 ; and Isocrates, 338 B. C. : 

 Demosthenes, the Athenian statesman and orator, died 322 ; and 

 JEschines, his rival, 323 B. C. 



Of the Greek historians, Herodotus, of Halicarnassus, flourished 

 445 ; Thucydides, died at Athens, 391 ; Xenophon, celebrated also as a 

 general, died 359 ; Polybius, also a statesman and general, died about 

 124; Diodorus Siculus, (or the Sicilian), flourished 44; and Dlo- 

 nysius of Halicarnassus, flourished 30 years B. C. Of Plutarch, 

 the biographer, we have already spoken, (p. 243). Charon of Lamp- 

 sacus, who flourished 460, and Ctesias of Cnidos, 400 B. C., are 



among the historians of minor note Of the Greek poets, Homer 



flourished about 907 B. C. ; and Hesiod, probably at the same time. 

 Sappho, of Lesbos, flourished 600 ; and Jlnacreon, of Teos, about 

 530 B. C. JEschylus, of Athens, died 456; Pindar, of Thebes, 

 435 ; Euripides, of Salamis, 407 ; and Sophocles, of Athens, died 

 406 B. C. Bion, of Smyrna, died about 300 ; Theocritus, of Syra- 

 cuse, in Sicily, flourished 285 ; and Moschus, of Syracuse, probably 

 flourished 160 B. C. JEsop, the fabulist, born in Phrygia, died 561 

 B.C. Archilochus, Tyrtaeus, Theognis, Empedocles, Aristophanes, 

 Menander, and others, we have only room to name. 



The Seven Wise Men of Greece, were Solon, of Athens, (p. 207) ; 

 Thales, of Miletus, (p. 20) ; Periander, of Corinth, who died 585 

 B. C. ; Chilo, of Sparta, who died 597 B. C. ; Pittacus, of Mytilene, 

 who died 570 B. C. ; Cleobulus, of Lindos, who died 564 B. C. ; and 

 Bias, of Priene, who flourished at the same date. Of other Greek 

 philosophers, besides those already mentioned as founders of sects, 

 (p. 20, 21), we would name Jlnaximander, the pupil and friend of 

 Thales, who died 547 B.C. ; Zeno, the elder, of Elia, a disciple of 

 Xenophanes, who flourished 464 ; and Leucippus, of Elea, who 

 flourished 440 B.C. ; Anaxagoras, of Clazomene, who was the pre- 



