A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. By various writers. Ed. by William Smith. Illustrated by numerous engravings on wood.

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spring, marches through Phoenicia and Antipater had taken refuge. Death of
Syria, crosses the Euphrates at Thapsacus Leosthenes.
in the nliddle of the summer, and defeats Demosthenes returns to Athens.
Dareius againatArbelaorGaugamelaonthe Hyperides pronounces the funeral orm1st of October. He wintered at Persepolis. tion over those who had fallen in the LaIn Greece, Agis is defeated and slain by mian war.
Antipater. Epicurus aet. 18 comes to Athens.
330 Alexander marches into Media, and takes Death of Diogenes, the cynic.
Ecbatana. From thence he sets out in 322 Leonnatus comes to the assistance of Antipursuit of Dareius, who is slain by Bessus. pater, but is defeated and slain. Craterus
After the death of Dareius, Alexander comes to the assistance of Antipater. Deconquers Hyrcania, and marches in pur- feat of the confederates at the battle of
suit of Bessus through Drangiana and Ara- Crannon on the 7th of August. End of
chosia, towards Bactria. the Lamian war. Munychia occupied by
The speech of Aeschines against Cte- the Macedonians on the 19th of Sepsiphon, and the speech of Demosthenes on tember
the Crown. Aeschines, after his failure, Death of Demosthenes on the 14th of
withdrew to Asia. October.
Speech of Lycurgus against Leocrates. Death of Aristotle aet 63 at Chalcis,
Philemon began to exhibit comedy, whither he had withdrawn from Athens a
during the reign of Alexander, a little few months before.
earlier than Menander. 321 Antipater and Craterus cross over into Asia,
329 Alexander marches across the Paropamisus to carry on war against Perdiccas. Crain the winter, passes the Oxus, takes Bes- terus is defeated and slain by Eumenes,
sus, and reaches the Jaxartes, where he who had espoused the side of Perdiccas.
founds a city Alexandria. He subsequently Perdiccas invades Egypt, where he is slain
crosses the Jaxartes and defeats the Scy- by his own troops. Partition of the prothians. He winters at Bactra. vinces at Triparadisus.
328 l Alexander is employed during the whole of Menander aet. 20 exhibits his first
this campaign in the conquest of Sogdiana. comedy.
Crates, the cynic, flourished. 320 Antigonus carries on war against Eumenes.
327 Alexander completes the conquest of Sog- 319 Death of Antipater, after appointing Polydiana early in the spring. He marries sperchon regent, and his son Cassander
Roxana, the daughter of Oxyartes, a Bac- chiliarch.
trian prince. After the subjugation of Escape of Eumenes from Nora, where he had
Sogdiana, Alexander returns to Bactra, been long besieged by Antigonus.
from whence he marches to invade India. Demades put to death by Cassander.
He crosses the Hydaspes, and defeats 318 War between Cassander and Polysperchon
Porus. He continues his march as fir as in Greece. The Athenians put Phocion to
the Hyphasis, but is there compelled by death. Athens is conquered by Cassander,
his troops to return to the Hydaspes. In who places it under the government of
the autumn he begins to sail down the Hy- Demetrius Phalereus.
daspes and the Indus to the Ocean, which 317 Eumenes is appointed by Polysperchon comhe reached in July in the following year. mander of the royal forces in the East, and
326 Alexander returns to Persia with part of is opposed by Antigonus. Battle of Gabiene
his troops through Gedrosia. He sends between Eumenes and Antigonus.
Nearchns with the fleet to sail from the Death of Arridaeus, Philip, and Eurydice.
mouths of the Indus to the Persian gulph. Olympias returns to Macedonia, and is beNearchus accomplishes the voyage in 129 sieged by Cassander at Pvdna.
days. 316 Last battle between Antigonus and Eu325 Alexander reaches Susa at the beginning of menes. Eumenes surrendered by the
the year. Towards the close of it he visits Argyraspids, and put to death. Antigonus
Ecbatana, where Hephaestion dies. Cam- becomes master of Asia. Seleucus flies
paign against the Cossaei in the winter. from Babylon, and takes refuge with
324 Alexander reaches Babylon in the spring. Ptolemy in Egypt.
Harpalus comes to Athens, and bribes many Cassander takes Pydna, and puts Olympias
of the Greek orators. to death. He marries Thessalonice, the
Dernosthenes, accused of having received daughter of Philip, and keeps Roxana and
a bribe from Harpalus, is condemned to her son Alexander IV. in custody. Caspay a fine of 50 talents. He withdraws sander rebuilds Thebes.
to Troezen and Aegina. 315 Coalition of Seletscus, Ptolemy, Cassander,
323 Death of Alexander at Babylon in June, and Lysimachus against Antigonus. First
after a reign of twelve years anid eight year of the war.
months. Polemon succeeds Xenocrates at the
Division of the satrapies among Alexander's Academy.
generals. 314 Second year of the war against Antigonus.
The Greek states make war against Mace- Successes of Cassander in Greece. Antidonia, usually called the Lamian war. gonus conquers Tyre, and winters in
Leosthenes, the Athenian general, defeats Phrygia.
j Antipater, and besieges Lamia, in which Death of the orator Aeschines, aet. 7.5.