THE

HISTORY

OF

ANCIENT GREECE,

ITS COLONIES, AND CONQUESTS;

From the Earlieft Accounts till the

Division of the Macedonian Empire in the Eaft.

INCLUDING THE HISTORY OF

LITERATURE, PHILOSOPHY, AND THE FINE ARTS.

By JOHN GILLIES, LL. D. F. A. S.

Εκ μεν τοιγε της άπαντων προς αλληλα συμπλοκής και παραθέσεως,
ετι δε ὁμοιοτητος και διαφορας, μόνως αν τις εφίκοιτο και δυνηθείη
κατοπτεύσας, άμα και το χρησιμον και το τερπνον εκ της ίςοριας
λαβειν.
POLYBIUS, 1. i. c. v.

VOL. V.

BASIL:

Printed for J. J. TOURNEISEN; and J. L. LEGRAND.

MDCCXC.

221. e. 490.

mofthenes unmasks the Defigns. of Philip's Expe-
dition to the Peloponnefus -to Epirus to Thrace.
Diopeithes oppofes bim with Vigor.

The

Siege of Perinthus.
Athenians. Expedition of
who retrieves the Athenian

Philip's Scythian Expedi-

The Incendiary Antiphon.

Philip's In-
The third

trigues embroil the Affairs of Greece.
Sacred War. Philip General of the
Confederacy against that Prince.

tyons.

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Oration in

feizes Elataa. - Battle of Charonea, — His Mo-
deration in Victory. Demofthenes's
Honor of the Slain.

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Government.

Liberal Spirit of the Macedonian

Philip appointed General of the Greeks.

lion of Illyria. Affaffination of Philip.

Character. Acceffion of Alexander.

pedition against the Illyrians and Triballi. - He

Rebellion in Greece.

paffes the Danube.

De-

ftruction of Thebes. - Heroifm of Timoclea.

Alexander croffes the Hellefpont. State of the

Battle of the Granicus.

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Perfian Empire.

Siege of Miletus and Halicarnaffus.

venture of two Macedonian Soldiers,—

Alexan-

der's judicious Plan of War. Arts by which he

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battle

battle of Illus.

CHA P. XXXVIII

Siege of Tyre. Defperate

Easy Conquest of Egypt.

andria. - Alexander vifits

Refiftance of Gaza.

Foundation of Alex-

the Temple of Jupiter

into Aloria.

Battle of

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Marches

Ammon.

Gaugamela. Darius betrayed and slain.

ander pursues the Murderers of Darius. - Bac-

trian and Scythian War. - Siege of the Sogdian

Fortress. Surrender of Chorienes. Commotions

in Greece Checked by Antipater. The Cause

of Ctesiphon and Demofthenes. Efchines ba-

State of Greece during Alexander's

the Army.

Meros.

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Alexander paffes the Indus and Hy-

dafpes. Defeats Porus. Founds Nicea and Bu-

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Paffes the Acefines and Hydraotes.

His March through the

Voyage of Nearchus. Alex-

ander improves the internal State of his Con

Incorporates the Barbarian Levies with

quefts.

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the Greeks and Macedonians. Intermarriages of

the Europeans and Afiatics.

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Divifion of his

quent Hiftory of Egypt and Syria.

The Western

Divifion of Alexander's Empire conquered by the

Romans. State of Greece after the Age of Alex-

ander.

Aftronomy Natural History Works of

Philofophical Sects established at Athens

Tenets of the different

Peripatetic Philofophy Eftimate of that

Philofophy Its Fate in the World Coincidence

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