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- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- CHAPTER LXXXIII Sicilian Affairs (continued).—From the Destruction of the Carthaginian Army by Pestilence before Syracuse, down to the Death of Dionysius the Elder
- CHAPTER LXXXIV Sicilian Affairs after the Death of the Elder Dionysius—Dionysius the Younger—and Dion
- CHAPTER LXXXV Sicilian Affairs down to the close of the Expedition of Timoleon. b.c. 353–336
- CHAPTER LXXXVI Central Greece: the Accession of Philip of Macedon to the Birth of Alexander. 359–356 b.c.
- CHAPTER LXXXVII From the commencement of the Sacred War to that of the Olynthian War
- CHAPTER LXXXVIII Euboic and Olynthian Wars
- CHAPTER LXXXIX From the Capture of Olynthus to the termination of the Sacred War by Philip
- CHAPTER XC From the Peace of 346 b.c., to the Battle of Chæroneia and the Death of Philip
CHAPTER LXXXVII - From the commencement of the Sacred War to that of the Olynthian War
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 August 2010
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- CHAPTER LXXXIII Sicilian Affairs (continued).—From the Destruction of the Carthaginian Army by Pestilence before Syracuse, down to the Death of Dionysius the Elder
- CHAPTER LXXXIV Sicilian Affairs after the Death of the Elder Dionysius—Dionysius the Younger—and Dion
- CHAPTER LXXXV Sicilian Affairs down to the close of the Expedition of Timoleon. b.c. 353–336
- CHAPTER LXXXVI Central Greece: the Accession of Philip of Macedon to the Birth of Alexander. 359–356 b.c.
- CHAPTER LXXXVII From the commencement of the Sacred War to that of the Olynthian War
- CHAPTER LXXXVIII Euboic and Olynthian Wars
- CHAPTER LXXXIX From the Capture of Olynthus to the termination of the Sacred War by Philip
- CHAPTER XC From the Peace of 346 b.c., to the Battle of Chæroneia and the Death of Philip
Summary
It has been recounted in the preceding chapter, how Philip, during the continuance of the Social War, aggrandised himself in Macedonia and Thrace at the expense of Athens, by the acquisition of Amphipolis, Pydna, and Potidæa—the two last actually taken from her, the first captured only under false assurances held out to her while he was besieging it: how he had farther strengthened himself by enlisting Olynthus both as an ally of his own, and as an enemy of the Athenians. He had thus begun the war against Athens, usually spoken of as the war about Amphipolis, which lasted without any formal peace for twelve years. The resistance opposed by Athens to these his first aggressions had been faint and ineffective—partly owing to embarrassments. But the Social War had not yet terminated, when new embarrassments and complications, of a far more formidable nature, sprang up elsewhere—known by the name of the Sacred War, rending the very entrails of the Hellenic world, and profitable only to the indefatigable aggressor in Macedonia.
Causes of the Sacred War—the Amphiktyonic assembly
The Amphiktyonic assembly, which we shall now find exalted into an inauspicious notoriety, was an Hellenic institution ancient and venerable, but rarely invested with, practical efficiency. Though political by occasion, it was religious in its main purpose, associated with the worship of Apollo at Delphi and of Dêmêtêr at Thermopylæ.
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- A History of Greece , pp. 339 - 445Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010