t will remain
when Themistocles and his peers fade away still further into the
backgrounds of history.

W. S. D.

CONTENTS

PROLOGUE
THE ISTHMIAN GAMES NEAR CORINTH

CHAPTER PAGE
I. GLAUCON THE BEAUTIFUL 3
II. THE ATHLETE 10
III. THE HAND OF PERSIA 21
IV. THE PENTATHLON 31

BOOK I
THE SHADOW OF THE PERSIAN

V. HERMIONE OF ELEUSIS 51
VI. ATHENS 62
VII. DEMOCRATES AND THE TEMPTER 74
VIII. ON THE ACROPOLIS 84
IX. THE CYPRIAN TRIUMPHS 95
X. DEMOCRATES RESOLVES 106
XI. THE PANATHENAEA 116
XII. A TRAITOR TO HELLAS 128
XIII. THE DISLOYALTY OF PHORMIO 141
XIV. MARDONIUS THE PERSIAN 152

BOOK II
THE COMING OF THE PERSIAN

XV. THE LOTUS-EATING AT SARDIS 165
XVI. THE COMING OF XERXES THE GOD-KING 174
XVII. THE CHARMING BY ROXANA 186
XVIII. DEMOCRATES'S TROUBLES RETURN 197
XIX. THE COMMANDMENT OF XERXES 209
XX. THERMOPYLAE 219
XXI. THE THREE HUNDRED--AND ONE 230
XXII. MARDONIUS GIVES A PROMISE 243
XXIII. THE DARKEST HOUR 253
XXIV. THE EVACUATION OF ATHENS 264
XXV. THE ACROPOLIS FLAMES 268
XXVI. THEMISTOCLES IS THINKING 279
XXVII. THE CRAFT OF ODYSSEUS 287
XXVIII. BEFORE THE DEATH GRAPPLE 300
XXIX. SALAMIS 311
XXX. THEMISTOCLES GIVES A PROMISE 329

BOOK III
THE PASSING OF THE PERSIAN

XXXI. DEMOCRATES SURRENDERS 3