. A smaller history of Greece, from the earliest times to the Roman conquest. Demosthenes. CHAPTEE XIX. PHILIP OF MACEDON, 359-336. The internal dissensions of Greece produced their natural fruits;and we shall have now to relate the downfall of her independenceand her subjugation by a foreign power. This power was Mace-donia, an obscure state to the north of Thessaly, hitherto over-looked and despised, and considered as altogether barbarous, andwithout the pale of Grecian civilization. But though the Mace-donians were not Greeks, their sovereigns claimed to be descendedfrom an Hel
. A smaller history of Greece, from the earliest times to the Roman conquest. Demosthenes. CHAPTEE XIX. PHILIP OF MACEDON, 359-336. The internal dissensions of Greece produced their natural fruits;and we shall have now to relate the downfall of her independenceand her subjugation by a foreign power. This power was Mace-donia, an obscure state to the north of Thessaly, hitherto over-looked and despised, and considered as altogether barbarous, andwithout the pale of Grecian civilization. But though the Mace-donians were not Greeks, their sovereigns claimed to be descendedfrom an Hellenic race, namely, that of Temenus of Argos ; and itis said that Alexander I. proved his Argive descent previously tocontending at the Olympic games. Perdiccas is commonly regardedas the founder of the monarchy ; of the history of which, however,little is known till the reign of Amyntas I., his fifth successor,who was contemporary with the Pisistratidse at Athens. UnderAmyntas, who submitted to the satrap Megabyzus, Macedonia be-came subject to Persia, and remained so till after
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