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- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
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- CHAPTER LXXXIII Sicilian Affairs (continued).—From the Destruction of the Carthaginian Army by Pestilence before Syracuse, down to the Death of Dionysius the Elder
- CHAPTER LXXXIV Sicilian Affairs after the Death of the Elder Dionysius—Dionysius the Younger—and Dion
- CHAPTER LXXXV Sicilian Affairs down to the close of the Expedition of Timoleon. b.c. 353–336
- CHAPTER LXXXVI Central Greece: the Accession of Philip of Macedon to the Birth of Alexander. 359–356 b.c.
- CHAPTER LXXXVII From the commencement of the Sacred War to that of the Olynthian War
- CHAPTER LXXXVIII Euboic and Olynthian Wars
- CHAPTER LXXXIX From the Capture of Olynthus to the termination of the Sacred War by Philip
- CHAPTER XC From the Peace of 346 b.c., to the Battle of Chæroneia and the Death of Philip
CHAPTER LXXXVIII - Euboic and Olynthian Wars
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 August 2010
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- CHAPTER LXXXIII Sicilian Affairs (continued).—From the Destruction of the Carthaginian Army by Pestilence before Syracuse, down to the Death of Dionysius the Elder
- CHAPTER LXXXIV Sicilian Affairs after the Death of the Elder Dionysius—Dionysius the Younger—and Dion
- CHAPTER LXXXV Sicilian Affairs down to the close of the Expedition of Timoleon. b.c. 353–336
- CHAPTER LXXXVI Central Greece: the Accession of Philip of Macedon to the Birth of Alexander. 359–356 b.c.
- CHAPTER LXXXVII From the commencement of the Sacred War to that of the Olynthian War
- CHAPTER LXXXVIII Euboic and Olynthian Wars
- CHAPTER LXXXIX From the Capture of Olynthus to the termination of the Sacred War by Philip
- CHAPTER XC From the Peace of 346 b.c., to the Battle of Chæroneia and the Death of Philip
Summary
Change of sentiments at Olynthus—the Olynthians afraid of Philip—they make peace with Athens
If even in Athens, at the date of the first Philippic of Demosthenes, the uneasiness about Philip was considerable, much more serious had it become among his neighbours the Olynthians. He had gained them over, four years before, by transferring to them the territory of Anthemus—and the still more important town of Potidæa, captured by his own arms from Athens. Grateful for these cessions, they had become his allies in his war with Athens, whom they hated on every ground. But a material change had since taken place. Since the loss of Methônê, Athens, expelled from the coast of Thrace and Macedonia, had ceased to be a hostile neighbour, or to inspire alarm to the Olynthians; while the immense increase in the power of Philip, combined with his ability and ambition alike manifest, had overlaid their gratitude for the past by a sentiment of fear for the future. It was but too clear that a prince who stretched his encroaching arms in all directions—to Thermopylæ, to Illyria, and to Thrace—would not long suffer the fertile peninsula between the Thermaic and Strymonic gulfs to remain occupied by free Grecian communities. Accordingly, it seems that after the great victory of Philip in Thessaly over the Phokians (in the first half of 352 b.c.), the Olynthians manifested their uneasiness by seceding from alliance with him against Athens.
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- A History of Greece , pp. 446 - 504Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010