The Project Gutenberg EBook of A Victor of Salamis by WilliamStearns DavisThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no costand with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copyit, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the ProjectGutenberg License included with this eBook or online athttp://www.gutenberg.org/licenseTitle: A Victor of SalamisAuthor: William Stearns DavisRelease Date: December 22, 2008 [Ebook 27587]Language: English***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK AVICTOR OF SALAMIS***A VICTOR OF SALAMISThe MM Co.A VICTOR OF SALAMISA TALE OF THE DAYS OF XERXES, LEONIDASAND THEMISTOCLESBYWILLIAM STEARNS DAVISAUTHOR OF “A FRIEND OF CÆSAR,” “GOD WILLS IT,”“BELSHAZZAR,” ETC.vi A Victor of Salamis“... On the Ægean shore a city stands,Built nobly, pure the air and light the soil,Athens, the eye of Greece.”viiNew YorkTHE MACMILLAN COMPANYLONDON: & CO., LTD.1907All rights reservedCOPYRIGHT, 1907,BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.Set up and electrotyped. Published April, 1907.ixNorwood PressJ. S. Cushing & Co.—Berwick & Smith Co.Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.AUTHOR’S NOTEThe invasion of Greece by Xerxes, with its battles ofThermopylæ, Salamis, and Platæa, forms one of the mostdramatic events in history. Had Athens and Sparta succumbed tothis attack of Oriental superstition and despotism, the Parthenon,the Attic Theatre, the Dialogues of Plato, would have been almostas impossible as if Phidias, Sophocles, and the philosophers ...
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