THE ANCIENT HISTORY OF THE EGYPTIANS, CARTHAGINIANS, ASSYRIANS, BABYLONIANS, BY HARLES ROLLIN, LATE PRINCIPAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PARIS, PROFESSOR OF ELOQUENCE Translated from the French. IN EIGHT VOLUMES. ILLUSTRATED WITH MAPS AND PLATES. REVISED AND CORRECTED FROM THE LAST LONDON EDITION, VOL. V. *Philadelphia: PUBLISHED BY W. W. WOODWARD, ROBERT DESILVER, Sect. III. Deniosthenes harangues the Athenians against Philip. That prince takes Sect. IV. Philip declares for Thebes against the Phocæans. He seizes on Ther- Sect. V. Philip extends his conquests to Illyria and Thrace. Character of Phocion. Sect. VII. Philip declared generalissimo of the Greeks against the Persians. His Sect. VIII. Memorable actions and sayings of Philip. Good and bad qualities of Sect. VI. Philip appointed generalissimo of the Greeks. Athenians and Thebans THE HISTORY OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT. Sect. III. Alexander sets out against the Persians. Obtains a famous victory at the Sect: I. Alexander's birth. Aristotle appointed his preceptor. He breaks Bu Sect. II. Alexander ascends the throne. Declared generalissimo of the Greeks the city of Petra, Sect. XII, Lacedæmonia revolts from the Macedonians. Antipater defeats Agis. Alexander marches against Bessus, Sect, XIII. Alexander builds a city near Laxarthes. Defeats the Scythians. Takes Sect. XIV. Death of Clitus. Expeditions of Alexander. He commands worship Sect. XV. Alexander sets out for India. Besieges and takes several cities. Defeats Sect. XVI. Alexander advances into India. He is exposed to great dangers at the Sect. XVII. Alexander is grievously distressed by famine. He marries Statira the Sect. XVIII. Alexander enters Babylon. His death. His corpse conveyed to the Sect. XIX. The judgment we are to form of Alexander, Sect. XX. Reflections on the Persians, Greeks, and Macedonians, by M. Bossuet, THE HISTORY OF ALEXANDER'S SUCCESSORS. Sect. I. Troubles which followed the death of Alexander. Partition of the pro- vinces. Aridæus is declared king. Perdiccas appointed his guardian, Sect. II. Revolt of the Greeks in Upper Asia. Antipater goes into Greece. Flight Sect. III. Procession of Alexander's funeral. Ptolemy, Craterus, Antipater, and Antigonus, confederate against each other, Sect. IV. The regency transferred to Antipater.' Polysperchon succeeds him. The DON was an hereditary kingdom, situated in ancient race, and bounded on the south by the mountains of Thessaly; on the east by Boeotia and Pieria; on the west by. the Lyncestæ; and on the north by Mygdonia and Pelago But after Philip had conquered part of Thrace and rium, this kingdom extended from the Adriatic Sea to river Strymon. Edessa was at first the capital of it, but arwards resigned that honour to Pella, famous for giving birth to Philip and Alexander. Philip, whose history we are going to write, was the son of Amyntas II. who is reckoned the sixteenth king of Macedon from Caranus, who had founded that kingdom about 430 years before; that is, in the year of the world 3210, and before Christ 794 The history of all these monarchs is sufficiently obscure, and includes little more than several wars with the Illyrians, the Thracians, and other neighbouring people. The kings of Macedon pretended to descend from Hercules by Caranus, and consequently to be Greeks by extraction. Notwithstanding this, Demosthenes often styles them Barbarians, especially in his invectives against Philip. The Greeks, indeed, gave this name to all other nations, without excepting the Macedonians. *Alexander, king of Macedon, in the reign of Xerxes, was excluded, upon pretence of his being a Barbarian, from the Olympic games; and was not admitted to share in them, till after having proved his being |