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...ers of the world -- The first boats -- Building a strong nation -- The earliest navigators -- Evolution of the ship -- Discoveries of the ancients -- Islands of the long ago -- Changes in the earth's surface -- Commerce of Troy with India -- Expeditions sent out by Menelaus and Neco -- The circumnavigation of Africa by the ancients -- Solomon's navy -- Discovery of the Wes...

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...earliest navigators -- Evolution of the ship -- Discoveries of the ancients -- Islands of the long ago -- Changes in the earth's surface -- Commerce o... ...especting the earth's shape -- Teachings of the great philosophers -- Fabulous islands of the Atlantic -- The Viking navigators -- Overrunning Europe,... ...t in the van of the Crusaders -- Discovery of Iceland -- A fish as large as an island -- Settlement of Iceland -- Discoveries of Erik the Red -- On Gr... ...ttacked by the natives -- A bold rover of the north -- A cruise among Atlantic islands -- A surprising discovery in Greenland -- Castaways on the shor... ... A ghostly company that come up out of the sea once every century -- Wandering islands -- The Phantom Ship -- The Flying Dutchman -- The crimes for wh... ... be, of the men who cruised with Ulysses, of the sailors who won the battle of Salamis. It was the gathering of the west against the east. The dogs of...

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...ctories, the fairest that ever the Sunne beheld with his allseeing eie, of Salamis, of Plateæ, of Mycale, and of Sicilia, durst ever dare to oppose a... ... this schoole, at what time he fought man to man against Onesilus King of Salamis; for he was the cause of his death, by reason the shieldbearer or ... ... Bishop hath left written, that in the other end of the world there is an island called of our predecessours Dioscorida, very commodious and fertile... ...o much honour his very obscuritie procured him. Smyrna, Rhodos, Colophon, Salamis, Chios, Argos, Athenæ. A. GEL. Noct. Att. 1. iii. c. 11. Rhodes,... ...alamis, Chios, Argos, Athenæ. A. GEL. Noct. Att. 1. iii. c. 11. Rhodes, Salamis, Colophon, Chios, Argos, Smyrna, with Athens. The other is Alex...

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...lot of the ship. But Philochorus says Theseus had sent him by Scirus, from Salamis, Nausithous to be his steersman, and Phaeax his look-out-man in the... ...sudden, a violent wind carried him again out to sea. That the women of the island received Ariadne very kindly, and did all they could to con- sole an... ...her loss, and at his departure left a sum of money among the people of the island, ordering them to do sacrifice to Ariadne; and caused two little ima... ...they yet show. That this Ariadne also died there, and was worshiped by the island, but in a differ- ent manner from the former; for her day is celebra... ...turn from Crete, put in at Delos, and, having sacrificed to the god of the island, dedicated to the temple the image of V enus which Ariadne had given... ...and difficult war that they conducted against the Megarians for the island Salamis, and made a law that it should be death for any man, by writing or ... ...d’s stand, and sang that elegy which begins thus:— I am a herald come from Salamis the fair, My news from thence my verses shall declare. 138 V olume... ...s from thence my verses shall declare. 138 V olume One The poem is called Salamis, it contains one hundred verses, very elegantly written; when it ha... ...tom of the country there, sacrificing to Ceres, he sent a trusty friend to Salamis, who should pretend himself a renegade, and advise them, if they de...

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...r of a chart she is always aim- ing for that one little spot—maybe a small island in the ocean, a single headland upon the long coast of a continent, ... ... we passed St. Helena; was laid up for a time when we were off the Western Islands, but got out of bed to make his Land- fall. He managed to keep up o... ...of the fact that it was Bangkok), a bit of manoeuvring of mine amongst the islands of the Gulf of Siam had given him an unforgettable scare. Ever sinc... ...” had she not been sighted in a snowstorm, vaguely, like a strange rolling island, by a whaler going north from her Po- lar cruising ground. There was... ...ly “Cape Horn,” and, indeed, with some reason, for Cape Horn is as much an island as a cape. The third stormy cape of the world, which is the Leeuwin,... ...artially the deeds of violence, they appear of but small consequence. From Salamis to Actium, through Lepanto and the Nile to the naval massacre of Na... ... be hardly worth dis- cussing. It is very probable that, had the Battle of Salamis never been fought, the face of the world would have been much as we...

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...last if they were only given a fair chance. The old soldier of the Spanish Salamis was bent on being the Aeschylus of Spain. He was to found a great n... ...a humble, submissive voice say, ‘I am the giant Caraculiambro, lord of the island of Malindrania, vanquished in single combat by the never sufficientl... ... him gladly, because any moment an adventure might occur that might win an island in the twinkling of an eye and leave him governor of it. On these an... ...ith his alforjas and bota, and longing to see himself soon governor of the island his master had promised him. Don Quixote decided upon taking the sam... ...“Your worship will take care, Señor Knight-errant, not to forget about the island you have promised me, for be it ever so big I’ll be equal to governi... ...gue with the knights- errant of old to make their squires governors of the islands or kingdoms they won, and I am determined that there shall be no fa...

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...n history. Among battles, “every schoolboy” knows the story of Marathon or Salamis, while it would be hard indeed to find one who did more than recogn... ... the Westmen were among the first arrivals, and took the best parts of the island—on its western shore, appropriately enough. After a time the Vikings... ...and is, rather pastoral than aught else. In the 39,200 square miles of the island’s area there are now about 250 acres of cultivated land, and althoug... ...or crafts. The climate is not so bad as might be expected, seeing that the island touches the polar circle, the mean temperature at Reykjavik being 39... ...ng. A cen- tral thing, and a speaker to speak a single “law” for the whole island, was instituted in 929, and afterwards the island was divided in fou... ...without room for hope or opening for ambition. An alien governor ruled the island, which was divided under him into local coun- ties, administered by ...

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...ulsed, and, some Cilician pirate ships joining with him, they made for the island of Pityussa, where they landed and overpowered the garrison placed t... ...escaped with difficulty, and after the wind ceased, ran for certain desert islands scattered in those seas, affording no water, and after passing a ni... ... part of Spain. Here he met with seamen recently arrived from the Atlantic islands, two in number, divided from one another only by a narrow channel, ... ...ant from the coast of Africa ten thou- sand furlongs. These are called the Islands of the Blest; rains fall there seldom, and in moderate showers, but... ...the greatest emulation to outvie each other; especially Nicocreon, king of Salamis, and Pasicrates of Soli, who furnished the chorus, and defrayed the... ...wned Greece, that he might have a share in the danger, joined the fleet at Salamis, with a vessel set forth at his own 207 Plutarch’s Lives charge. S... ...d of his making preparations to attack Piraeus, sending soldiers over into Salamis, and tampering with, and endeavoring to corrupt various residents i... ...ders to Menelaus to sally, in the heat of the battle, out of the harbor of Salamis, and attack with sixty ships the rear of Demetrius. Demetrius, howe... ... amo- rous only of Lamia. After this signal victory, Demetrius came before Salamis; and Menelaus, unable to make any resistance, surrendered himself a...

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...last if they were only given a fair chance. The old soldier of the Spanish Salamis was bent on being the Aeschylus of Spain. He was to found a great n... ...a humble, submissive voice say, ‘I am the giant Caraculiambro, lord of the island of Malindrania, vanquished in single combat by the never sufficientl... ... him gladly, because any moment an adventure might occur that might win an island in the twinkling of an eye and leave him governor of it. On these an... ...ith his alforjas and bota, and longing to see himself soon governor of the island his master had promised him. Don Quixote decided upon taking the sam... ...“Your worship will take care, Senor Knight-errant, not to forget about the island you have promised me, for be it ever so big I’ll be equal to governi... ...gue with the knights- errant of old to make their squires governors of the islands or kingdoms they won, and I am determined that there shall be no fa...

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...elt the sunlight nor understood why column and campanile rose, nor why the islands basked, and boats and people moved. All were as remote little bits ... ...es, those early birds, fully to understand that a change has come in their island mother’s mind. If there is a balance to be righted, she leaves that ... ... season the Shakesperian ‘This England . . .’ and Byronic—’The invio- late Island . . .’ shake the frame, as though smiting it with the tail of the gy... ...l than these green waves and that dark forest’s edge, and the garden of an island! The yachting-water here is an unrivalled lake; and if I miss colour... ...oad water and its opposite border of forest, beyond which the downs of the island threw long interlapping curves. Great ships passed on the line of 1... ...sk-work was an idle labour. Dr. Shrapnel assisted in fighting Marathon and Salamis over again cor- dially—to shield Great Britain from the rule of a s...

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...ng from morn till eve, was I falling, till at sunset I came to ground in the island of Lemnos, and there I lay, with very little life left in me, till... ...e was older. With him there came fifty ships. Ajax brought twelve ships from Salamis, and sta tioned them alongside those of the Athenians. The men o... ...g Agasthenes, son of Augeas. And those of Dulichium with the sacred Echinean islands, who dwelt beyond the sea off Elis; these were led by Meges, peer... ...ilips, Samos and Zacynthus, with the mainland also that was over against the islands. These were led by Ulysses, peer of Jove in counsel, and with him... ..., Crapathus, and Ca sus, with Cos, the city of Eurypylus, and the Calydnian islands, these were commanded by Pheidippus and Antiphus, two sons of Kin... ...men all of them good archers; but Philoctetes was lying in great pain in the Island of Lemnos, where the sons of the Achæans left him, for he had been... ...hall overcome me, neither by force nor cun ning, for I was born and bred in Salamis, and can hold my own in all things.” With this they fell praying ...

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...nto Seleucia; and from thence they sailed to Cyprus. 5 And when they were at Salamis, they preached the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews: and... ... not bear up into the wind, we let her drive. 16 And running under a certain island which is called Clauda, we had much work to come by the boat: 17 ... ... shall be even as it was told me. 26 Howbeit we must be cast upon a certain island. 27 But when the fourteenth night was come, as we were driven up a... ...afe to land. Chapter 28 A nd when they were escaped, then they knew that the island was called Melita. 2 And the barbarous people shewed us no little ... ...e was a god. 7 In the same quarters were possessions of the chief man of the island, whose name was Publius; who received us, and lodged us three days... ... healed him. 9 So when this was done, others also, which had diseases in the island, came, and were healed: 10 Who also honoured us with many honours;...

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...t was Mount AEtna, some the highlands, Of Candia, Cyprus, Rhodes, or other islands. Meantime the current, with a rising gale, Still set them o... ... spread; Or the Red Sea but the sea is not red. And down the cliff the island virgin came, And near the cave her quick light footsteps drew,... ... desires; But more imprudent grown with every visit, Haidee forgot the island was her sire’s; When we have what we like, ‘t is hard to miss it... ... is mute To sounds which echo further west Than your sires’ ‘Islands of the Blest.’ The mountains look on Marathon ... ...e. A king sate on the rocky brow Which looks o’er sea born Salamis; And ships, by thousands, lay below, And men in... ...er thoughts from sorrow through her heart re sent; And he begun a long low island song Of ancient days, ere tyranny grew strong. Anon her thin w...

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...he found one ready to Start for Erythræ, a town of Ionia, which faces that island, and he prevailed upon the seamen to allow him to accompany them. Ha... ...ks.] Besides the satisfaction of driving the impostor Thestorides from the island, Homer enjoyed considerable success as a teacher. In the town of Chi... ...e was very popular. In the spring he sailed for Athens, and arrived at the island of Ios, now Ino, where he fell extremely ill, and died. It is said t... ...es and T roy, are called demi-gods, and live by the care of Jupiter in the islands of the blessed.” Now among the divine honours which were paid them,... ...of force divine. But those who view fair Elis o’er the seas From the blest islands of the Echinades, In forty vessels under Meges move, Begot by Phyle... ...m Ajax ought to dread? Ajax, in all the toils of battle bred! From warlike Salamis I drew my birth, And, born to combats, fear no force on earth.” He ... ...ileus, a Locrian. He must be distinguished from the other, who was king of Salamis. 56 A great deal of nonsense has been written to account for the wo...

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...cks, and Thyestes in his turn left it to Agamemnon to bear, that over many islands and all Argos he should be lord. Thereon he leaned and spake his sa... ...h. And with him fifty black ships followed. And Aias led twelve ships from Salamis, [and brought them and set them where the battalions of the Athenia... ...ther by skill; seeing I hope that not so skill less, either, was I born in Salamis nor nurtured.” So said he, and they prayed to Kronos’ son, king Zeu... ...when a smoke issueth from a city and riseth up into the upper air, from an island afar off that foes beleaguer, while the others from their city fight...

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...s lifting up; and he shall save the humble person. 30 He shall deliver the island of the innocent: and it is delivered by the pureness of thine hands.... ...d from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea. 12 And he shall set up an ensign for the na- tions, and... ...l dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there. 22 And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses, and dragons in their pleasant p... ... The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the wild beasts of the island, and the satyr shall cry to his fellow; the screech owl also shall r... ...; and they shall walk, and not faint. Chapter 41 Keep silence before me, O islands; and let the people renew their strength: let them come near; then ... ...o Seleucia; and from thence they sailed to Cyprus. 5 And when they were at Salamis, they preached the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews: and t...

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...ts of Sais in Egypt, that of old, and before the Deluge, there was a great island called Atlantis, situate directly at the mouth of the straits of Gib... ...ped them: but that some time after, both the Athenians, and they and their island, were swallowed by the Flood. 269 Montaigne It is very likely that ... ...es that our modern navigators have already al- most discovered it to be no island, but terra firma, and conti- nent with the East Indies on the one si... ...narrow a strait and channel, that it none the more deserves the name of an island for that. It should seem, that in this great body, there are two sor... ...ltar, and sailed a very long time, discovered at last a great and fruitful island, all covered over with wood, and watered with several broad and deep... ...er could those four sister victories, the fairest the sun ever be held, of Salamis, Plataea, Mycale, and Sicily, venture to oppose all their united gl... ... general of the Persian army, fighting, man to man, with Onesilus, king of Salamis, to be mounted upon a horse trained after this manner, it being the...

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...dred thousand a year. He owns fifty thousand acres of the soil of this little island and ever so many other things besides. He has half a dozen houses ... ... the whole American continent and can at least find her way about this minute island.” “Ah then,” said Ralph, “let me take advantage of her protection ... ...ed that in England the pleasures of smell were great—that in this inimitable island there was a certain mixture of fog and beer and soot which, howeve... ...nd more easily convertible to literary uses than the customs of those opaque islanders. Out of doors in foreign lands, as she ingeniously remarked, on... ...nd her adventure wore already the changed, the seaward face of some romantic island from which, after feasting on purple grapes, she was putting off w... ...cropolis and fixed her eyes upon the point designated to her as the Strait of Salamis; deep and memorable as these emotions had remained. She came back...

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...d thousand a year. He owns fifty thousand acres of the soil of this little island and ever so many other things besides. He has half a dozen houses to... ...e whole American continent and can at least find her way about this minute island.” 141 Henry James “Ah then,” said Ralph, “let me take advantage of ... ...t in En- gland the pleasures of smell were great—that in this in- imitable island there was a certain mixture of fog and beer and soot which, however ... ...ore easily convertible to liter- ary uses than the customs of those opaque islanders. Out of doors in foreign lands, as she ingeniously remarked, one ... ... her adventure wore already the changed, the seaward face of some romantic island from which, after feasting on purple grapes, she was putting off whi... ...polis and fixed her eyes upon the point designated to her as the Strait of Salamis; deep and memorable as these emo- tions had remained. She came back...

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...gather the meaning of the remark, Mr. Perkins was showing him a picture of Salamis, and with his finger , a finger of which the nail had a little blac... ...merset Maugham fancies were rich with the glories of America and the green islands of the Caribbean Sea; in their veins was the power that had come fr... ...red the de- sire, which was now an obsession, for Eastern lands and sunlit islands in a tropic sea. But here you felt yourself closer to the wide, dee... ...ill an independent state. He had touched 751 W. Somerset Maugham at coral islands. Philip listened to him entranced. Little by little he told Philip ... ...it would be possible to tranship into some other line and drip down to the islands of the South Pacific. A doctor was useful anywhere. There might be ... ... Leon; what to him were the pagodas of Burmah and the lagoons of South Sea Islands? America was here and now. It seemed to him that all his life he ha...

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... therefore, epic poetry shows two diver- gent tendencies. In Ionia and the islands the epic poets fol- lowed the Homeric tradition, singing of romanti... ...yprian Lays, ascribed to Stasinus of Cyprus (14) (but also to Hegesinus of Salamis) was designed to do for the events preceding the action of the Ilia... ...r- temisia, ‘wife of Mausonis’, who distinguished herself at the battle of Salamis. Suidas is confusing the two Artemisias, but he may be right in att... ... them dwell at the ends of earth. And they live untouched by sorrow in the islands of the blessed along the shore of deep swirling Ocean, happy heroes... ... of land and formed the straits (3), the sea parting the mainland from the island. But Hesiod, the poet, says just the opposite: that the sea was open... ...led Medea. (ll. 963-968) And now farewell, you dwellers on Olympus and you islands and continents and thou briny sea within. Now sing the company of g... ...to be the husband of Argive Helen with the rich hair. (ll. 55-62) And from Salamis Aias, blameless warrior, sought her to wife, and offered fitting gi... ...rightness that plays over it. (ll. 4-6) Hail, goddess, queen of well-built Salamis and sea- girt Cyprus; grant me a cheerful song. And now I will re- ... ... ENDNOTES: (1) This Artemisia, who distinguished herself at the battle of Salamis (Herodotus, vii. 99) is here confused with the later Artemisia, the...

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...d Demosthenes the Athenians were still living on the glories of Marathon and Salamis. The Menexenus veils in panegyric the weak places of Athenian his... ... to my senses and know where I am; in the meantime I have been living in the Islands of the Blest. Such is the art of our rhetori- cians, and in such ... ...place, and the second to those who fought and conquered in the sea fights at Salamis and Artemisium; for of them, too, one might have many things to s... ...men, to cease among them. And so the soldiers of Marathon and the sailors of Salamis became the schoolmasters of Hellas; the one teaching and habituat... ...sistance of the state, for she could not forget the trophies of Marathon and Salamis and Plataea; but she allowed exiles and volunteers to assist him,...

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... buds until the waters subside. You shall perhaps run aground on Cranberry Island, only some spires of last year’s pipe grass above water, to show whe... ...at on the west side of a little rising ground which in the spring forms an island in the river. Here we found huckleberries still hanging upon the bus... ... preserve the memory of its freshness to mid day. As we passed the various islands, or what were islands in the spring, row ing with our backs down s... ...tream, we gave names to them. The one on which we had camped we called Fox Island, and one fine densely wooded island surrounded by deep water and ove... ...ike a mass of ver dure and of flowers cast upon the waves, we named Grape Island. From Ball’s Hill to Billerica meeting house, the river was still tw... ...ing out of which the city is run out.” When Solon endeavored to prove that Salamis had formerly belonged to the Athenians, and not to the Megareans, h... ...eans, he caused the tombs to be opened, and showed that the inhabitants of Salamis turned the faces of their dead to the same side with the Athenians,...

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... tail above us, lit with myriad spots of light. THE INDIAN TO HIS LOVE THE island dreams under the dawn And great boughs drop tranquillity; The peahen... ...ERE dips the rocky highland Of Sleuth Wood in the lake, There lies a leafy island Where flapping herons wake The drowsy water rats; There we’ve hid our... ... on the wandering foam: I and you! THE ROSE 37 I am haunted by numberless islands, and many a Danaan shore, Where Time would surely forget us, and So... ...d him who sold tillage, and house, and goods, And sought through lands and islands numberless years, Until he found, with laughter and with tears, A w... ...nwind their dances when the light grows cool IN THE SEVEN WOODS 75 On the island lawns, their feet where the pale foam gleams. No boughs have withere... ...ensities, And not the banks of oars that swam upon The many headed foam at Salamis. Europe put off that foam when Phidias Gave women dreams and dreams...

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... who now live near them have the very laws which Minos first drew up. This island seems formed by nature to be the mistress of Greece, for it is entir... ...inos acquired the em- 68 A Treatise on Government pire of the sea and the islands; some of which he subdued, in others planted colonies: at last he d... ...no opportunity of being bribed like the ephori, as they live in an [1272b] island far from those who would corrupt them.) But the method they take to ... ... and it is but lately that any foreign troops have made an attack upon the island; and their ravages soon proved the ineffectualness of their laws. An... ...that part of the town called Chytrum quarrelled with them who lived in the island, and the Colophonians with the Notians. At Athens too the dispositio... ...e maritime force, composed of the commonalty, having gained the victory at Salamis, by their power at sea, got the lead in the state, and strengthened...

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...him. To the light of Zeus Soon shall he rise; and I will give to him A holy island for my gift: it lies Within the Euxine Sea: there evermore A God t... ...ch do I care, If haply yet they live, if haply yet Spared from the grave, in Salamis they dwell, As for thee, O my glory and my crown!” So cried he gr... ... soul with thee; yea, and thou promisedst To throne me queen of fair towered Salamis, When home we won from Troy. The Gods denied Accomplishment ther... ... Then Paris’ arrows laid proud Phorcys low, And Mosynus, brethren both, from Salamis Who came in Aias’ ships, and nevermore Saw the home land. Cleola... ... serpents twain, And summoned them to T roy. By her uproused They shook the island as with earthquake: roared The sea; the waves disparted as they ca...

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...which the subject was a his tory of the wars of the Athenians against the Island of Atlantis, is supposed to be founded upon an unfinished poem of So... ...gle for Hellenic independence, singing a hymn of triumph over Marathon and Salamis, perhaps making the reflection of Herodotus where he contemplates t... ...cept upon compulsion, fancying that they are already dwelling apart in the islands of the blest. Very true, he replied. Then, I said, the business of ... ... in their place to be governors of the State, then they will depart to the Islands of the Blest and dwell there; and the city will give them public me...

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...and, and make the Libyan shores. Within a long recess there lies a bay: An island shades it from the rolling sea, And forms a port secure for ships to... ...n shore? It calls into my mind, tho’ then a child, When T eucer came, from Salamis exil’d, And sought my father’s aid, to be restor’d: The Aeneid Vi... ...s, with a prosp’rous wind, And leave the cities and the shores behind. “An island in th’ Aegaean main appears; Neptune and wat’ry Doris claim it their... ... Then round th’ Italian coast your navy steer; And, after this, to Circe’s island veer; And, last, before your new foundations rise, Must pass the Sty... ...rs rely! Such, and so vast as Polypheme appears, A hundred more this hated island bears: Like him, in caves they shut their woolly sheep; Like him, th...

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...ent for such a consequence as they from thence derived coming to visit the island, they took notice of such grounds as were best husbanded, and such c... ...pon the enemy, with inten- tion to strike home but not to ward a blow. The Island of Gozzo being taken some years ago by the Turks, a Sicilian, who ha... ...selves. The late Mareschal de Montluc having lost his son, who died in the island of Madeira, in truth a very worthy gentle- man and of great expectat... ...s obscurity helped him to! 282 Book the Second “Smyrna, Rhodos, Colophon, Salamis, Chios, Argos, Athenm.” The other is Alexander the Great. For whoev...