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Dr. Goldsmith's History of Greece; Abridged for the Use of Schools
Dr Goldsmith's History of Greece Abridged for the Use of Schools Author:Oliver Goldsmith General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1809 Original Publisher: Vernor, Hood and Sharpe, Poultry and Taylor and Hessey Subjects: Greece History / Ancient / General History / Ancient / Greece History / Europe / Greece Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and th... more »ere 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 books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER XII. PROM THE BIRTH TO THE DEATH OF PHILIP, KINO Of MACEDON. '( THE first king who is mentioned, with any degree of certainty, to have reigned in Macedonia, was Caranus, by birth an Argive, and said to be the sixteenth in descent from Hercules. It was upon this foundation, that Philip afterwards grounded his pretensions to be of the race of Hercules, and assumed to himself divine honours. Caranus is commonly supposed to have led forth a body of his countrymen, by the advice of the oracle, into those parts where he settled, and to have made himself king. Caranus having, according to the general account, reigned twenty- eight years, the succession was continued after him to the times we are now treating of. But there is very little worth notice recorded of these kings, who were generally employed in defending themselves against the incursions of their neighbours. And as to their domestic affairs, they were remarkable only for the frequent murders and usurpations which happened in the royal family. Amyntas, the father of Philip, left two elder sons, Alexander and Perdiccas, both of whom possessed the throne in their turn. The second of these left a son, named Amyntas, who, while yet an infant, succeeded his father ; but the state of public affairs requiring a prince of mature years, Amyntas was soon deposed, and his uncle Philip advanced in his room. Philip began his reign in the twenth-fourth year of his age, and the f...« less