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Title: The story of the greatest nations, from the dawn of history to the twentieth century : a comprehensive history, founded upon the leading authorities, including a complete chronology of the world, and a pronouncing vocabulary of each nation
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Ellis, Edward Sylvester, 1840-1916 Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis), 1870-1942
Subjects: World history
Publisher: New York : F.R. Niglutsch
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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ned to contest the sovereignty. He had been ill-treated byAlexander, and had formed an implacable hatred toward that monarch and themembers of his family. He succeeded in his contest for the throne, but whileengaged in conquering southern Greece news reached him that Olympias,mother of Alexander, was making serious trouble in Macedonia and he hurriedthither. He captured Olympias and put her to death, after which only Roxana,widow of Alexander, and her son ^Egus stood between him and the throne.He married the half-sister of Alexander, removed the widow and son whostood in his way, and caused Thebes, which Alexander had destroyed, to be re-built. His war with Antigonus, king of Asia, lasted from B.C. 315 to 301, inthe latter year of which Antigonus was defeated and killed at the battle of Ip-sus. Then with his auxiliaries Seleucus, Ptolemy, and Lysimachus, Cassanderseized and shared the dominions of the vanquished. It was in the year B.C. 317 that Cassander placed Demetrius Phalereus at
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Greece—Struggles of the Macedonian Generals 255 the head of affairs in Athens, where he ruled with so much wisdom for tenyears that the grateful Athenians heaped all manner of honors upon him, includ-ing no less than three hundred and sixty statues. But he lost his popularitythrough dissipation, and upon the approach of Demetrius Poliorcetes, the sonof Antigonus, in B.C. 307, he was obliged to flee, while all his statues e.xceptone were demolished. After the battle of Ipsus, Demetrius Poliorcetes had succeeded to what wasleft of his fathers power, and retreating with the remnant of his army to P2phe-sus, had sailed to Cyprus. He wished to go to Athens, but the Athenians wouldnot receive him. He then turned toward the Peloponnesus, but found that hisallies in that quarter had joined Cassander. While engaged in ravaging theThracian Chersonese in B.C. 300, he was gratified to receive an embassy fromSeleucus with a request from that monarch for the hand of his daughter. Therequest was g

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