Word: macedon
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President Andrews opposed the generally accepted theory of Demosthenes that Athens was the centre of Greek democracy and that when Philip of Macedon defeated the Athenians he destroyed Greek liberty. Demosthenes was not so great a statesman as Phocion, who foresaw that Greece needed for her preservation the unification which could only be obtained through the domination of some one state or man. Owing to jealousy among the Greek states the only salvation for Greece was the rule of Philip, and after his death, of Alexander...
...Athens hoping to find Plato there. Since Plato was away, he waited for his return, and about 360 became a student at the Academy where he remained until Plato's death. He then went to Asia Minor and spent three years at Hermeas whence he was summoned to Macedon to tutor Alexander the Great...
Seminary of Classical Philology. Paper by Mr. E. C. Morey, on the character of Philip of Macedon as portrayed by Demosthenes; by Mr. W. S. Ross, on The Grouping of Words in Horace's Odes. Sever...
...THURSDAY.Seminary of Classical Philology. Paper by Mr. E. C. Morey, on the character of Philip of Macedon as portrayed by Demosthenes; by Mr. W. S. Ross, on The Grouping of Words in Horace's Odes. Sever...