Dionysius

Cyrus the Younger

The Retreat

The Diary

[Pg vi]

A Thanksgiving

Business and Pleasure

Invalided

Back to Athens

The Story of the Trial

The Last Conversation

The Condition of Exile

Author’s Postscript

Index

[Pg 1]

[Pg 1]

CALLIAS A Tale of the Fall of Athens.

CHAPTER I. A NEW PLAY.

It is the second year of the ninety-third Olympiad[1] and the Theatre at Athens is full, for the great dramatic season is at its height, and to-day there is to be performed a new play by Aristophanes, the special favorite of the Athenian public. It is a brilliant scene, but a keen observer, who happened to see the same gathering some five and twenty years ago, must now notice a certain falling off in its splendor. For these five and twenty years have been years of war, and 

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