. A smaller history of Greece, from the earliest times to the Roman conquest. sity, affability, and daring courage,had become the hero of the Macedonians, who looked upon himas a second Alexander. The appearance of Pyrrhus was thesignal for revolt: the Macedonian troops flocked to his standard,and Demetrius was compelled to fly. Pyrrhus now ascended thethrone of Macedonia; but his reign was of brief duration ; andat the end of seven months he was in turn driven out by Lysi-machus. Demetrius made several attempts to regain his power * Philip Arrhidceus is called Philip III. p 2 212 HISTORY OF G
. A smaller history of Greece, from the earliest times to the Roman conquest. sity, affability, and daring courage,had become the hero of the Macedonians, who looked upon himas a second Alexander. The appearance of Pyrrhus was thesignal for revolt: the Macedonian troops flocked to his standard,and Demetrius was compelled to fly. Pyrrhus now ascended thethrone of Macedonia; but his reign was of brief duration ; andat the end of seven months he was in turn driven out by Lysi-machus. Demetrius made several attempts to regain his power * Philip Arrhidceus is called Philip III. p 2 212 HISTORY OF GREECE. Chap. XXI. in Greece, and then set sail for Asia, where he successivelyendeavoured to establish hiniself in the territories of Lysimachus,and of his son-in-law Seleucus. Falling at length into the handsof the latter, he was kept in a kind of magnificent captivity ina royal residence in Syria; where, in 283, at the early age of 55,his chequered career was brought to a close, partly by chagrin, andpartly by the sensual indulgences with winch he endeavomed todivert Coin of Demetrius Poliorcetes. Lysimachus, Seleucus, and Ptolemy now divided the empire ofAlexander between them. In Egypt the aged Ptolemy had abdi-cated in 285 in favour of his son by Berenice, afterwards known asPtolemy Philadelphus, and to the exclusion of his eldest son,Ptolemy Ceraunus, by his wife Eurydice. Ptolemy Ceraunusquitted Egypt in disgust, and fled to the court of Lysimachus; andArsinoe, the wife of Lysimachus, jealous of her stepson Agathocles,
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