Chapter I: Front Matter

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HISTORY OF GREECE.

BY

GEORGE GROTE, ESQ.

VOL. IV.

REPRINTED FROM THE SECOND LONDON EDITION.

NEW YORK:
HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS.
329 AND 331 PEARL STREET.
1880.

CONTENTS.

VOL. IV.

PART II.

CONTINUATION OF HISTORICAL GREECE.

CHAPTER XXV.

ILLYRIANS, MACEDONIANS, PÆONIANS.

Different tribes of Illyrians. — Conflicts and contrast of
Illyrians with Greeks. — Epidamnus and Apollonia in relation to
the Illyrians. — Early Macedonians. — Their original seats. —
General view of the country which they occupied — eastward of
Pindus and Skardus. — Distribution and tribes of the Macedonians.
— Macedonians round Edessa — the leading portion of the nation. —
Pierians and Bottiæans — originally placed on the Thermaic gulf,
between the Macedonians and the sea. — Pæonians. — Argeian Greeks
who established the dynasty of Edessa — Perdikkas. — Talents for
command manifested by Greek chieftains over barbaric tribes. —
Aggrandizement of the dynasty of Edessa — conquests as far as
the Thermaic gulf, as well as over the interior Macedonians. —
Friendship between king Amyntas and the Peisistratids.
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CHAPTER XXVI.

THRACIANS AND GREEK COLONIES IN THRACE.

Thracians — their numbers and abode. — Many distinct tribes, yet
little diversity of character. — Their cruelty, rapacity, and
military efficiency. — Thracian worship and character Asiatic.
— Early date of the Chalkidic colonies in Thrace. — Methônê the
earliest — about 720 B. C. — Several other small settlements
on the Chalkidic peninsula and its three projecting headlands.
— Chalkidic peninsula — Mount Athos. — Colonies in Pallênê, or
the westernmost of the three headlands. — In Sithonia, or the
middle headland. — In the headland of Athos — Akanthus, Stageira,
etc. — Greek settlements east of the Strymôn in Thrace. — Island
of Thasus. — Thracian Chersonesus. — Perinthus, Selymoria, and
Byzantium. — Grecian settlements on the Euxine, south of the
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