Ancient Greece; a sketch of its art, literature & philosophy viewed in connexion with its external history from earliest times to the age of Alexander the Great (1913)
Cotterill, H. B. (Henry Bernard), b. 1846 · New York, Frederick A. Stokes Company · leaf 475
tand, as at Thermopylae, on aheight; but, when circumvented, as at Thermopylae, theydoubtless felt no such enthusiasm for their cause as thosearound I^eonidas had felt, and they surrendered—a coursenever before taken, perhaps, in Spartan warfare. Sphacteriawas strongly garrisoned with Messenians… … 93- The Nike (Victory) of Paeonius 336 THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR of Victory floating aloft amidst trailing wind-blown drapery—the work of the sculptor Paeonius (Fig. 93). In the next year (424) the Athenians captured the islandof C3rthera—a formidable base for naval operations againstSparta. Also…
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