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History of the World From the Creation to the Fall of the Western Roman Empire
History of the World From the Creation to the Fall of the Western Roman Empire Author:Philip Smith General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1885 Original Publisher: Appleton Subjects: History, Ancient History / Ancient / General History / Ancient / Greece History / World Juvenile Nonfiction / History / Ancient Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there... more » 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: CONDITION OF GREECE. CHAPTER XVHI. LAST TEARS OF LIBERTY IN GREECE. -- FROM T1IE EXPEDITION OF ALEXANDER TO THE RISE OF THE ACILEAN LEAGUE. B. C. 334 TO B. C. 280. " Much-suffering heroes next their honours claim, Those of less noisy, and less guilty fame. Here his abode the martyr'd Phocion claims, With Ac is, not the last of Spartan names." -- Pope. CONDITION OF GREECE AT ALEXANDER 9 DEPARTURE -- ATHENS AND SPARTA -- MOVEMENTS Or AGIS HIS DEFEAT AND DEATH -- . CSCHINES AND DEMOSTHENES AFFAIR OF HARPALCS EXILE OF DEMOSTHENES -- ALEXANDER'S EDICT FOR RESTORING THE EXILES -- EFFECT OF Alexander's Death -- The Lamian War -- Victory or Antipatbr -- Deaths or Hvper- IDES, DEMOSTHENES, AND DEMADEs -- POLYSPERCHON -- PROCLAMATION OF GREEE LIBERTY DBATH OF PHOCION CASSANDER MASTER OF ATHENS -- DEMETRIUS THE PHALEREAN -- CASSANDER IN PELOPONNESUS -- FORTIFICATION OF SPARTA -- AFFAIRS OF MACEDONIA -- RESTORATION OF THEBES -- SUCCESSES OF ANTIGONUS IN GREECE -- GENERAL PACIFICATION CASSANDEB MASTER OF MACEDONIA AND GREECE -- DEMETRIUS POLIORCETES AT ATHENS HIS SECOND VISIT -- SUCCESSFUL WAR WITH CASSANDER -- RECALL TO ASIA, AND RETURN TO GREECE -- REPULSE FROM ATHENS DEATH OF CASSANDER -- PHILIP IV., ANTIPATER, AND ALEXANDER -- DEMETRIUS POLIORCETES TAEES ATHENS EINO OF MACEDONIA -- HIS WARS IN GREECE -- WITH PYRRHUS AND LYSIMACflUS -- HIS FLIGHT TO ASIA, IMPRISONMENT AND DEATH -- EXPULSION OF PYREHUs BY LY9IMACHUS -- A...« less