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Demosthenes on Distrust of Tyrants
Demosthenes on Distrust of Tyrants

... masterpiece of political oratory. Stobaeus excerpted it. Cicero, Plutarch, Themistius, and Lord Brougham paid it the compliment of imitation, and it stands as an important example of the stylistic ideal of Solemnity in the Aristeides Rhetoric. 1 This famous passage has unique stylistic virtues of it ...
Philip II of Macedon: aspects of his reign
Philip II of Macedon: aspects of his reign

... It   is   this   point   that   provides   the   main   inspiration   for   this   work.   In   theory,   one   can  draw  certain  conclusions  from  even  the  sparsest  collection  of  information.  Thus   an  archaeologist  can  make ...
Demosthenes (384-322 B.C.) Athenian statesman, recognized as
Demosthenes (384-322 B.C.) Athenian statesman, recognized as

... Leader of the democratic faction. From this point on (354), Demosthenes' career is virtually the history of Athenian foreign policy. It was not very long before his oratorical skill made him, in effect, the leader of what today might be called the democratic party. Some interests, especially the wea ...
Twilight of the Polis
Twilight of the Polis

... 371/0 Athens invites all cities except Thebes to share the King’s Peace, with guarantees of autonomy and military support to any city, if it were attacked; Sparta and most of the Peloponnesian states present; Thebes not invited; Athens replaces Sparta as the defender of the King’s Peace and the auto ...
The Battle of Chaeronea - DigitalCommons@APUS
The Battle of Chaeronea - [email protected]

... planning to invade Asia. His reasoning was that he must following the Greek vision of the past and needed to “avenge the Persian invasion of Macedonia and Greece of 480 BC.”13 With this goal in mind and from the day after the battle, Philip set about finding the most efficacious way to control Greec ...
Philip II of Macedonia (Part Two)
Philip II of Macedonia (Part Two)

... Until then, the Macedonian king had been nothing more or less than the foremost Macedonian aristocrat. From now on, however, he exceeded his equals in wealth, and Philip could start to create a new type of society. It was no longer an archaic state ruled by noblemen who accepted one of them as "firs ...
Philip II of Macedoni As king, Philip`s brother Alexander II gave
Philip II of Macedoni As king, Philip`s brother Alexander II gave

... on Greece and became the first invader to have subdued the various city-states, a feat not even the powerful Persian Empire had been able to do. The father of Alexander the Great, Philip bequeathed to his son not only a great army, but also an eye looking east towards Persia. ...
Phillip II of Macedonia (Part One)
Phillip II of Macedonia (Part One)

... Macedonia had Amphipolis, it had the resources to build up an army and it could blackmail any sea power. Immediately, Perdiccas invited the Athenian Callistratus to reform the Macedonian economy and toll system. However, the king was not to see the edifice for which he had laid the foundations, bec ...
Macedon
Macedon

...  Weaponry standardized and provided by the state.  The spear was replaced by the sarissa,  Troops under the pay of the king and could be drilled regularly.  The panoply was lightened.  The cavalry became an offensive arm.  The nobility were included in a reciprocal deal ...
OCR Textbook - John D Clare
OCR Textbook - John D Clare

CLAS 0810A
CLAS 0810A

... Philip II (382-336 BC), Alexander’s father • Acceded to Macedonian throne in 359 at age 22. Philip appointed regent for his infant nephew Amyntas, after Macedonian king Perdikkas killed in battle against Illyrians in 360 BC. Philip seized full power shortly afterwards, and then moved to (a) liquidat ...
Diodorus Siculus on The Battle of Chaeronea
Diodorus Siculus on The Battle of Chaeronea

... personal valor, but in numbers and military experience a great advantage lay with the king. For he had fought many battles, gained most of them, and so learned much about war, but the best Athenian generals were now dead, and Chares---the chief of them still remaining---differed but little from a co ...
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Rise of Macedon



The rise of Macedon, from a small kingdom at the periphery of classical Greek affairs to one which came to dominate the entire Hellenic world (and beyond), occurred in the space of just 25 years, between 359 and 336 BC. This ascendancy is largely attributable to the personality and policies of Philip II (r. 359–336 BC).
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