Goldsmith's History of Greece Abridged Author:Oliver Goldsmith General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1806 Original Publisher: printed for Peter Beaume Subjects: History / Ancient / General History / Ancient / Greece History / Europe / Greece Travel / Europe / Greece Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be t... more »ypos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: HISTORY GREECE. CHAP. XL from the death of Socrates, to ike death of Epa- minondas. A Ftek the destruction of the Athenian polver by Lysander, the Spartans were the next state that took the lead in the affairs of Greece, and the Eleans were the first that felt the weight of their resentment , for having refused to admit them to tha Olympic games in common with the rest of the Greeks. About the same time, Agesilaus, being chosen king of Sparta , was sent into Asia with an army , under pretence of freeing the Grecian cities in that quarter. He gained a signal victory over Tis- aphernes, near the river Pactolus , where he forced the enemy's camp , and found considerable plun-. der. The Persian mouarch, afraid to oppose hiapenly in the field, endeavoured to subvert his in terest among the Grecian states by power of money ; and in this he was but too successful. The first whom he gained over to his side , were the Thebans , . and these were soon after followed by the Athenians, who gladly seized this opportunity of throwing off the Spartan yoke. In a little time , the Argives , Corinthians, Eubceans , and other states, acceded to the confederacy; so that the Spartans 'were obliged to recall Agesilaus out of Persia, where he was carrying on the war, in order to oppose the powerful comhination that was now forming against them. But before his arrival , they were forced to come to an engagement with the enemy near Si- cyon, where , though the Sp...« less