THE BURNING OF ATHENS.They had submitted to Xerxes before the el hadji diof battle of Thermopyl, and they considered themselves, accordingly, as his allies.It was said that he ordered his servant to conduct him to the place.The operations of the fleet described in the last chapter, and those of el hadji diof the army narrated in this, took place, it will be remembered, at the same time, and in the same vicinity too for, by referring to the map, it will appear that Thermopyl was upon the coast, exactly opposite to the channel or arm of the sea lying north of Euboea, where the naval contests had been waged so that, while Xerxes had been making his desperate efforts to get through the pass, his fleet had been engaged in a similar conflict with the squadrons of the Greeks, directly opposite to him, twenty or thirty miles in the offing.He determined that this trifling should continue no longer.Parnassus was the name of a el hadji diof short mountainous range rather than of a single peak, though the loftiest summit of the range was called Parnassus too.Works of art.The el hadji diof Thessalians were very ready to furnish guides.The sacred town of Delphi.Xerxes, who witnessed all these things from among the group el hadji diof of officers around him upon the eminence, was kept continually in a state of excitement and irritation.