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The History of Ancient Greece, Its Colonies and Conquests Including the History of Literature, Philosophy, and the Fine Arts
The History of Ancient Greece Its Colonies and Conquests Including the History of Literature Philosophy and the Fine Arts Author:John Gillies General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1820 Original Publisher: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies Subjects: Greece History / Ancient / General History / Ancient / Greece History / Europe / Greece Travel / Europe / Greece Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustratio... more »ns 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 books for free. Excerpt: CHAP. XXXIV. Philip's Prosperity. -- Imprudent Measures of the Am- phictyonic Counci1. -- The Phocian, or Sacred War. -- Philomelus seizes the Temple of Delphi. -- Takes the Field against the Thebans and their Allies. -- Defeat and Death of Philomelus. -- Affairs of Thrace, Macedon, and Attica. -- Onomarchus takes the Command of the Phocians. -- Encounters Philip in Thes- saly. -- He is defeated and slain. -- Philip s Designs against Olynthus and Byzantium. -- Traversed by the Athenians. -- Phayllus takes the Command of the Pho- fians. -- Philip marches towards Thermopylae. -- Anticipated by the Athenians. -- Demosthenes's first Philippic. -- Philip's Occupations at Pella. -- His Vices -- and Policy. Chap. Philip had now reigned almost five years. He 'XXXi. nad greatly enlarged the boundaries, he had Prosperity still more augmented the revenues, of his king- in the fifth dom. Paeonia, no longer the rival, was become year of his an obsequious province of Macedon. At the ex- pence of Thrace and Illyria, he had extended his frontier on t. ne east to the sea of Thasos; on the west to the lake Lychnidus. He was master of Thessaly without having the trouble to govern it. He secured many commercial advantages by the possession of Amphipolis. His troops were numerous and well disciplined ; his large finances were regulated with economy; and the mines ofPhilippi furnished him with an annual resource Chap. alike useful to his desi...« less