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- Frontmatter
- Contents
- ERRATA
- CHAPTER LX FROM THE BATTLE OF IPSUS TO THE DEATH OF PYRRHUS
- CHAP. LXI FROM THE DEATH OF FYRRHUS TO THE ACCESSION OF ANTIGONUS DOSON
- CHAP. LXII FROM THE ACCESSION OF ANTIGONUS DOSON TO THE BATTLE OF SELLASIA
- CHAP. LXIII FROM THE BATTLE OF SELLASIA TO THE END OF THE SOCIAL WAR BETWEEN THE ACHÆANS AND ÆTOLIANS
- CHAP. LXIV FROM THE END OF THE SOCIAL WAR BETWEEN THE ÆTOLIANS AND THE ACHÆANS TO THE PROCLAMATION OF THE LIBERTY OF GREECE UNDER ROMAN PROTECTION
- CHAP. LXV FROM THE PROCLAMATION OF THE LIBERTY OF GREECE UNDER ROMAN PROTECTION TO THE EMBASSY OF CALLICRATES TO ROME
- CHAP. LXVI FROM THE EMBASSY OF CALLICRATES TO ROME TO THE REDUCTION OF GREECE INTO A ROMAN PROVINCE
- INDEX
CHAPTER LX - FROM THE BATTLE OF IPSUS TO THE DEATH OF PYRRHUS
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 July 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- ERRATA
- CHAPTER LX FROM THE BATTLE OF IPSUS TO THE DEATH OF PYRRHUS
- CHAP. LXI FROM THE DEATH OF FYRRHUS TO THE ACCESSION OF ANTIGONUS DOSON
- CHAP. LXII FROM THE ACCESSION OF ANTIGONUS DOSON TO THE BATTLE OF SELLASIA
- CHAP. LXIII FROM THE BATTLE OF SELLASIA TO THE END OF THE SOCIAL WAR BETWEEN THE ACHÆANS AND ÆTOLIANS
- CHAP. LXIV FROM THE END OF THE SOCIAL WAR BETWEEN THE ÆTOLIANS AND THE ACHÆANS TO THE PROCLAMATION OF THE LIBERTY OF GREECE UNDER ROMAN PROTECTION
- CHAP. LXV FROM THE PROCLAMATION OF THE LIBERTY OF GREECE UNDER ROMAN PROTECTION TO THE EMBASSY OF CALLICRATES TO ROME
- CHAP. LXVI FROM THE EMBASSY OF CALLICRATES TO ROME TO THE REDUCTION OF GREECE INTO A ROMAN PROVINCE
- INDEX
Summary
By the event of the battle of Ipsus the allies, who had been united by their common enmity to Antigonus, were transformed into jealous rivals. Their struggle with him was no sooner decided, than the clashing interests of Ptolemy and Seleucus threatened an immediate rupture, which was averted indeed, but so as to leave neither party secure, and one of them deeply offended. It was clear that the possession of Syria must be a subject of perpetual contest between the two states. On the other hand, Lysimachus had reason to be satisfied–if it was in the nature of ambition to be so – with the rich acquisition which had fallen to his share: but he could feel no confidence in the moderation of his powerful neighbour, and might well suspect that Seleucus would endeavour to resume so important a concession on the first opportunity. In the eyes both of Lysimachus and Ptolemy, Seleucus had stept into the place of Antigonus; and they soon gave public proof of the jealousy with which they regarded him, by a new alliance which they contracted with one another. Lysimachus, although he had so lately married Amastris, and had children by a former wife, an Odrysian princess – among whom the eldest Agathocles was a youth of great promise – received the hand of Arsinoe, Ptolemy's daughter by Berenice.
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- A History of Greece , pp. 1 - 77Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1844