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...killed by fellow Albanians who fled to Greece, that so far as they knew his head was still on his corpse. Slim as the incident was, it served Italy as an excuse for reminding Greece of Albanian claims on an unspecified part of the ancient Greek province of Epirus, a corner of which, Ciamuria, was taken from Albania by Greece in 1914 after the outbreak of World...
...Republic of Venice. Il Duce's probable objective: to force Greece's Premier-Dictator John Metaxas and Yugoslavia's Premier Dragisha Cvetkovitch to go to Rome for an "Italian Salzburg," at which Albania (as nominee for Italy) would get Dalmatia and at least a part of Epirus, Bulgaria would get a corridor to the Aegean Sea through Thrace, thereby cutting off Greece from her ally, Turkey, and softening her up for further demands...
...conquered all lands, both East and West. So Egypt is yours; your ambition then ranges, And bears you away to the Tigris and Ganges. But when crown'd with success, and with glory you tire us, What's left to be done when return'd to Epirus...
Philip was married to Olympias, the daughter of the king of Epirus, and three years afterwards was born a boy who got history's best imperial training, whom his father nurtured lovingly and carefully that he might become a Conqueror. A boy whose shrewish, selfish, cruel, fanatical mother soon taught to hate his father...
Philip occasionally got drunk. Plutarch tells us of a scene at Philip's second-marriage feast when Attalus, the father of the bride, betrayed the general hostility to Olympias and Epirus by saying "he hoped there would be a child by the marriage to give them a truly Macedonian heir." Whereupon young Alexander rose and threw his cup of wine at Attalus . . . "What then am I?" Philip stood up and drew his sword, but stumbled and fell. And fiery Alexander...