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A Victor of Salamis by William Stearns Davis

Chapter 1 No.1

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Copyright, 1907,

By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.

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Set up and electrotyped. Published April, 1907.

Norwood Press

J. S. Cushing & Co.-Berwick & Smith Co.

Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.

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AUTHOR'S NOTE

The invasion of Greece by Xerxes, with its battles of Thermopyl?, Salamis, and Plat?a, forms one of the most dramatic events in history. Had Athens and Sparta succumbed to this attack of Oriental superstition and despotism, the Parthenon, the Attic Theatre, the Dialogues of Plato, would have been almost as impossible as if Phidias, Sophocles, and the philosophers had never lived. Because this contest and its heroes-Leonidas and Themistocles-cast their abiding shadows across our world of to-day, I have attempted this piece of historical fiction.

Many of the scenes were conceived on the fields of action themselves during a recent visit to Greece, and I have tried to give some glimpse of the natural beauty of "The Land of the Hellene,"-a beauty that will remain when Themistocles and his peers fade away still further into the backgrounds of history.

W. S. D.

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CONTENTS

PROLOGUE

THE ISTHMIAN GAMES NEAR CORINTH

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Chapter 2 GLAUCON THE BEAUTIFUL

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Chapter 3 THE ATHLETE

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Chapter 4 THE HAND OF PERSIA

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Chapter 5 THE PENTATHLON

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Chapter 6 HERMIONE OF ELEUSIS

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Chapter 7 ATHENS

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Chapter 8 DEMOCRATES AND THE TEMPTER

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Chapter 9 ON THE ACROPOLIS

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Chapter 10 THE CYPRIAN TRIUMPHS

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Chapter 11 DEMOCRATES RESOLVES

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Chapter 12 THE PANATHEN A

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Chapter 13 A TRAITOR TO HELLAS

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Chapter 14 THE DISLOYALTY OF PHORMIO

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Chapter 15 MARDONIUS THE PERSIAN

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Chapter 16 THE LOTUS-EATING AT SARDIS

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Chapter 17 THE COMING OF XERXES THE GOD-KING

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Chapter 18 THE CHARMING BY ROXANA

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Chapter 19 DEMOCRATES'S TROUBLES RETURN

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Chapter 20 THE COMMANDMENT OF XERXES

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Chapter 21 THERMOPYL

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Chapter 22 THE THREE HUNDRED-AND ONE

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Chapter 23 MARDONIUS GIVES A PROMISE

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Chapter 24 THE DARKEST HOUR

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Chapter 25 THE EVACUATION OF ATHENS

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Chapter 26 THE ACROPOLIS FLAMES

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Chapter 27 THEMISTOCLES IS THINKING

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Chapter 28 THE CRAFT OF ODYSSEUS

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Chapter 29 BEFORE THE DEATH GRAPPLE

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Chapter 30 SALAMIS

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Chapter 31 THEMISTOCLES GIVES A PROMISE

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Chapter 32 DEMOCRATES SURRENDERS

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Chapter 33 THE STRANGER IN TR ZENE

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Chapter 34 WHAT BEFELL ON THE HILLSIDE

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Chapter 35 THE LOYALTY OF LAMPAXO

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Chapter 36 MOLOCH BETRAYS THE PH NICIAN

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Chapter 37 THE READING OF THE RIDDLE

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Chapter 38 THE RACE TO SAVE HELLAS

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Chapter 39 THE COUNCIL OF MARDONIUS

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Chapter 40 THE AVENGING OF LEONIDAS

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