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- Frontmatter
- Contents
- CHAPTER XCI First Period of the Reign of Alexander the Great—Siege and Capture of Thebes
- CHAPTER XCII Asiatic Campaigns of Alexander
- CHAPTER XCIII Second and Third Asiatic Campaigns of Alexander—Battle of Issus—Siege of Tyre
- CHAPTER XCIV Military Operations and Conquests of Alexander, after his Winter-Quarters in Persis, down to his Death at Babylon
- CHAPTER XCV Grecian Affairs from the Landing of Alexander in Asia to the close of the Lamian War
- CHAPTER XCVI From the Lamian War to the close of the History of Free Hellas and Hellenism
- CHAPTER XCVII Sicilian and Italian Greeks—Agathokles
- CHAPTER XCVIII Outlying Hellenic Cities.—1. In Gaul and Spain. 2. On the coast of the Euxine
- INDEX
- Plate section
CHAPTER XCVI - From the Lamian War to the close of the History of Free Hellas and Hellenism
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 March 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- CHAPTER XCI First Period of the Reign of Alexander the Great—Siege and Capture of Thebes
- CHAPTER XCII Asiatic Campaigns of Alexander
- CHAPTER XCIII Second and Third Asiatic Campaigns of Alexander—Battle of Issus—Siege of Tyre
- CHAPTER XCIV Military Operations and Conquests of Alexander, after his Winter-Quarters in Persis, down to his Death at Babylon
- CHAPTER XCV Grecian Affairs from the Landing of Alexander in Asia to the close of the Lamian War
- CHAPTER XCVI From the Lamian War to the close of the History of Free Hellas and Hellenism
- CHAPTER XCVII Sicilian and Italian Greeks—Agathokles
- CHAPTER XCVIII Outlying Hellenic Cities.—1. In Gaul and Spain. 2. On the coast of the Euxine
- INDEX
- Plate section
Summary
The death of Demosthenes, with its tragical circumstances recounted in my last chapter, is on the whole less melancholy than the prolonged life of Phokion, as agent of Macedonian supremacy in a city half-depopulated, where he had been born a free citizen, and which he had so long helped to administer as a free community. The dishonour of Phokion's position must have been aggravated by the distress in Athens, arising both out of the violent deportation of one-half of its free citizens, and out of the compulsory return of the Athenian settlers from Samos; which island was now taken from Athens, after she had occupied it forty-three years, and restored to the Samian people and to their recalled exiles, by a rescript of Perdikkas in the name of Aridæus. Occupying this obnoxious elevation, Phokion exercised authority with his usual probity and mildness. Exerting himself to guard the citizens from being annoyed by disorders on the part of the garrison of Munychia, he kept up friendly intercourse with its commander Menyllus, though refusing all presents both from him and from Antipater. He was anxious to bestow the gift of citizenship upon the philosopher Xenokrates, who was only a metic, or resident non-freeman; but Xenokrates declined the offer, remarking, that he would accept no place in a constitution against which he had protested as envoy. This mark of courageous independence, not a little remarkable while the Macedonians were masters of the city, was a tacit reproach to the pliant submission of Phokion.
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- A History of Greece , pp. 446 - 530Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1856