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- Frontmatter
- Contents
- ERRATA
- CHAPTER LX FROM THE BATTLE OF IPSUS TO THE DEATH OF PYRRHUS
- CHAP. LXI FROM THE DEATH OF FYRRHUS TO THE ACCESSION OF ANTIGONUS DOSON
- CHAP. LXII FROM THE ACCESSION OF ANTIGONUS DOSON TO THE BATTLE OF SELLASIA
- CHAP. LXIII FROM THE BATTLE OF SELLASIA TO THE END OF THE SOCIAL WAR BETWEEN THE ACHÆANS AND ÆTOLIANS
- CHAP. LXIV FROM THE END OF THE SOCIAL WAR BETWEEN THE ÆTOLIANS AND THE ACHÆANS TO THE PROCLAMATION OF THE LIBERTY OF GREECE UNDER ROMAN PROTECTION
- CHAP. LXV FROM THE PROCLAMATION OF THE LIBERTY OF GREECE UNDER ROMAN PROTECTION TO THE EMBASSY OF CALLICRATES TO ROME
- CHAP. LXVI FROM THE EMBASSY OF CALLICRATES TO ROME TO THE REDUCTION OF GREECE INTO A ROMAN PROVINCE
- INDEX
CHAP. LXV - FROM THE PROCLAMATION OF THE LIBERTY OF GREECE UNDER ROMAN PROTECTION TO THE EMBASSY OF CALLICRATES TO ROME
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 July 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- ERRATA
- CHAPTER LX FROM THE BATTLE OF IPSUS TO THE DEATH OF PYRRHUS
- CHAP. LXI FROM THE DEATH OF FYRRHUS TO THE ACCESSION OF ANTIGONUS DOSON
- CHAP. LXII FROM THE ACCESSION OF ANTIGONUS DOSON TO THE BATTLE OF SELLASIA
- CHAP. LXIII FROM THE BATTLE OF SELLASIA TO THE END OF THE SOCIAL WAR BETWEEN THE ACHÆANS AND ÆTOLIANS
- CHAP. LXIV FROM THE END OF THE SOCIAL WAR BETWEEN THE ÆTOLIANS AND THE ACHÆANS TO THE PROCLAMATION OF THE LIBERTY OF GREECE UNDER ROMAN PROTECTION
- CHAP. LXV FROM THE PROCLAMATION OF THE LIBERTY OF GREECE UNDER ROMAN PROTECTION TO THE EMBASSY OF CALLICRATES TO ROME
- CHAP. LXVI FROM THE EMBASSY OF CALLICRATES TO ROME TO THE REDUCTION OF GREECE INTO A ROMAN PROVINCE
- INDEX
Summary
Antiochus, the son of Seleucus Callinicus, and the sixth from the founder of his dynasty, surnamed by his contemporaries the Great, was perhaps eminent in energy and ability above most of his line, though certainly not comparable in this respect to his ancestor, the Conqueror. He seems to have owed that title, – which however imported little in an age so lavish of such distinctions, that his grandfather, a vile and odious prince, was surnamed the God – chiefly to the contrast between the low state into which the Syrian monarchy had fallen when he ascended the throne, and that to which he finally raised it, but especially to his expedition for the recovery of the eastern provinces which had been taken from it by the Parthian and Bactrian kings, an expedition which by its extent, duration, and dazzling success, might to a degenerate race recal the achievements of the Macedonian conqueror. He seems to have been elated with the sounding epithet, and to have forgotten how largely he was indebted for his triumphs to the imbecility of his Egyptian neighbours; and in an evil hour he conceived the project of enlarging the hounds of his empire until it should include all the conquests made by the first Seleucus after his victory over Lysimachus.
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- A History of Greece , pp. 321 - 379Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1844