Contents "A Smaller History of Greece"

Sir William Smith (1813-1893), author of A Smaller History of Greece also wrote the Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1842). Knighted a year before his death, Smith was a lexicographer from University College, London, according to A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John W. Cousin.

Note that in this E-text, some of the orthography has been changed.

Chapter I		Geography of Greece.
Chapter II		Origin of the Greeks, and the Heroic Age.
Chapter III		General Survey of the Greek People. National Institutions.
Chapter IV		Early History of Peloponnesus and Sparta to the end of the Messenian Wars, B.C. 668.
Chapter V		Early History of Athens down to the Establishment of Democracy by Clisthenes, B.C. 510.
Chapter VI		The Greek Colonies.
Chapter VII		The Persian Wars. -- From the Ionic Revolt to the Battle of Marathon, B.C. 500-490.
Chapter VIII		The Persian Wars. -- The Battles of Thermopylae Salamis, and Plataea, B.C. 480-479.
Chapter IX		From the end of the Persian Wars to the beginning of the Peloponnesian War, B.C. 479-431.
Chapter X		Athens in the time of Pericles.
Chapter XI		The Peloponnesian War. -- First Period, from the commencement of the War to the Peace of Nicias, B.C. 431-421.
Chapter XII		The Peloponnesian War. -- Second Period, from the Peace of Nicias to the Defeat of the Athenians in Sicily, B.C. 421-413.
Chapter XIII		The Peloponnesian War. -- Third Period, from the Sicilian Expedition to the end of the War, B.C. 413-404.
Chapter XIV		The Thiry Tyrants, and the death of Socrates, B.C. 404-399.
Chapter XV		The Expedition of the Greeks under Cyrus, and Retreat of the Ten Thousand, B.C. 401-400.
Chapter XVI		The Supremacy of Sparta, B.C. 404-371.
Chapter XVII		The Supremacy of Thebes, B.C. 371-361.
Chapter XVIII		History of the Sicilian Greeks from the Destruction of the Athenian Armament to the Death of Timoleon.
Chapter XIX		Phillip of Macedon, B.C. 359-336.
Chapter XX		Alexander the Great, B.C. 336-323.
Chapter XXI		From the Death of Alexander the Great to the Conquest of Greece by the Romans, B.C. 323-146.
Chapter XXII		Sketch of the History of Greek Literature from the Earliest Times to the Reign of Alexander the Great.