Category: Biographies
Situation of the country of Epirus.--Epirus and Macedon.--Their political connections.--Olympias.--Her visits to Epirus.--Philip.--Olympias as a wife.--She makes many difficulties.--Alexander takes part with his mother in her quarrel.--Olympias is suspected of having murdered...
Pyrrhus makes preparations for his campaign.--Pyrrhus's designs.--Excitement in Greece.--Pyrrhus's army advances toward Sparta.--Embassadors.--Pyrrhus arrives at Sparta.--He pos...
7. Chapter 7Lanassa.--The tyrant her father.--His adventures.--Agathocles's flight from Africa.--Terrible consequences.--The sea dyed with blood.--Shocking story.--Texina and her children.-...
1. Chapter 1Situation of the country of Epirus.--Epirus and Macedon.--Their political connections.--Olympias.--Her visits to Epirus.--Philip.--Olympias as a wife.--She makes many difficulti...
6. Chapter 6Effects of the victory.--Public opinion at Rome.--Expectations of Pyrrhus.--His mistake.--Cineas sent an embassador to Rome.--Cineas's plans for bribing the Roman senators.--Spe...
9. Chapter 9Some account of the family of Lysimachus.--Remarks on the principle of hereditary succession.--Difficulties that often occur.--Examples.--Return to the history of Macedon.--Stor...
2. Chapter 2Antipater's difficulties--Trouble with Olympias and Eurydice.--Character of Eurydice.--Her dictatorial and overbearing demeanor.--The convention of Triparadeisus.--Violence of E...
4. Chapter 4Pyrrhus is restored to his throne.--A celebration.--Festivities.--Gelon's gift.--Gelon and Myrtilus form a plot.--The cup-bearer pretends to join the plot.--Conversation overhea...
5. Chapter 5The grand expedition into Italy.--The dominion of the Romans.--The Tarentines.--Various parties formed at Tarentum.--Boisterous meetings.--Meton's artifice.--Meton succeeds in a...
3. Chapter 3The family of Epirus.--Their difficulties.--The two Alexanders.--Their different destinies.--Adventures of Alexander of Macedon.--The Gulf of Tarentum.--Oracle of Dodona.--The e...
8. Chapter 8State of Pyrrhus's army.--His enfeebled condition.--Precarious situation of his affairs.--Affair of Locri.--Pyrrhus recaptures it.--Proserpina, the Goddess of Death.--Explanatio...
11. Chapter 11Sparta.--Some account of the city.--The Spartan kings.--Origin of the system.--Oracle at Delphi.--A difficulty.--The two lines of kings.--A diarchy.--Dissensions.--Lycurgus.--Hi...
10. Chapter 10Fatal deficiencies in Pyrrhus's character.--Fickleness of Pyrrhus.--Consequences which resulted from it.--Examples of his want of perseverance.--Reasons for the proposed invasio...