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Accadian Ægean Alexander ancient army artists Aryan Asia Minor Asiatic Assyrian Athenians Athens Attica Babylon Babylonian battle became body brought called capital century B.C. Chaldæan character civilization conqueror conquest Croesus culture Cyrus Darius death Delphian Dorian Dynasty East Egypt Egyptian empire Euphrates expedition fleet gods Grecian Greece Greek cities Hebrew Hellas Hellenic Hellespont Herodotus heroes honor hundred influence inscriptions Ionian island king kingdom known land legends literature Lydia Macedonian Medes Mediterranean monarch monuments mounds mountains Nabopolassar nations Nebuchadnezzar Nile Nineveh oracle palace Pelasgian Peloponnesian Peloponnesus Pericles period Persian Persian Empire Pharaohs philosophers Phoenician poets political possession priests Psammetichus Ptolemy pyramids race Rameses Rameses II region reign religion religious renowned revolt rival Roman royal ruins sacred Sargon says sculptures Semitic shores Solon Spartans story tablets temple Theban Thebes Themistocles thousand Tigris tion tribes Turanian valley vast walls worship Xerxes Zeus
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Page 177 - Greek legend, a monster with the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and the tail of a dragon.
Page 100 - God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it. Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting. Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.
Page 77 - Whoever shall abrade or injure my tablets and cylinders, or shall moisten them with water, or scorch them with fire, or expose them to the air, or in the holy place of God shall assign them a...
Page 28 - And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in mortar, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour.
Page 100 - One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to show the king of Babylon that his city is taken at one end...
Page 165 - What animal walks on four legs in the morning, on two at noon, and on three at night...
Page 221 - Death in the pass, the defence of which had been intrusted to them, was all that Spartan honor and Spartan law now left them. The next day, surrounded by the Persian host, they fought with desperate valor; but, overwhelmed by mere numbers, they were slain to the last man.
Page 111 - In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes.
Page 183 - We will not destroy any Amphictyonic town, nor cut it off from running water in war or peace : if any one shall do so, we will march against him and destroy his city. If any one shall plunder the property of the god, or shall be cognizant thereof, or shall take treacherous counsel against the things in his temple at Delphi, we will punish him with foot, and hand, and voice, and by every means in our power.
Page 80 - And because Hezekiah, king of Judah," says Sennacherib, "would not submit to my yoke, I came up against him, and by force of arms and by the might of my power I took forty-six of his strong fenced cities; and of the smaller towns which were scattered about, I took and plundered a countless number. And from these places I captured and carried off as spoil...