The glory that was Greece : a survey of Hellenic culture and civilization (1915)
Stobart, J. C. (John Clarke), 1878-1933, Hopper, R. J. (Robert John), 1910- · Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott · leaf 200
er from 560 to 510. It is difficult to estimatehis services to Athens, for later generations did their utmostto deny and conceal them, giving some of his achievementsto Solon and some to Theseus, and some even to Erechtheus.He founded an early Athenian empire. He won the islandof Salamis from… … THE AGES OF TRANSITIONMiltiades as tyrant of the Thracian Chersonese. In thesemovements his policy was obviously to open up trade withthe Black Sea, the granary of Greece. He extended olive-culture in Attica. He probably began to work the silver-mines at Laurium, which were thenceforth the…
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