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The Description of Greece, by Pausanias, Tr. with Notes [By T. Taylor].
The Description of Greece by Pausanias Tr with Notes - By T. Taylor Author:Pausanias General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1824 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos 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 book... more »s for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER VII. The Thebans, therefore, being then driven from their country by Alexander, fled to Athens, and were afterwards restored to it by Cassander the son of Antipater. Indeed the Athenians assisted the Thebans with the greatest alacrity in restoring Thebes to its pristine state; and they were joined in this by the Messenians and Megalopolitans. But it appears to me that Cassander rebuilt Thebes, principally through his hatred of Alexander: for he endeavoured totally to destroy all his house. Thus he delivered up Olympias the mother of Alexander to be stoned to death, by those Macedonians who violently hated her, and destroyed by poison Hercules the son of Alexander by Barsina, and Alexander his son by Roxana. He did not, however, depart rejoicing from the present life; for he was seized with a dropsy, through which he was devoured by vermin. Of his sons, too, the eldest, Philip, not long after he began his reign, was attacked with a tabid disease. Antipater who succeeded him slew his mother Thessalonice, who was the daughter of Philip the son of Amyntas by Nicasipolis. His reason for committing this parricide was her extreme fondness of Alexander, the youngest of Antipater's sons. Alexander, however, calling to his assistance Demetrius the son of Antigonus, slew Antipater, and thus revenged the murder of his mother. Some god, therefore, deservedly punished Cassander for his guilty conduct. However, all the ancient inclosure of Thebes was restored to the Thebans by Cassander. But it was requisite, that they should afterwards taste of the greatest evils. For when Mithidrates warred on the Romans,...« less