Chapter LIX: The Successors of Alexander (323-232 B.c.) 420

Council at Babylon after Alexander’s death, 422. Perdiccas,
Meleager, Eumenes, and the puppet king, 425. The compact,
426. The partition, 427. Alexander’s posthumous plans, 428.
Alexander’s funeral described by Diodorus, 430. Alexander’s
heirs, 431. Arrhidæus, the imbecile, 431. The Diadochi, 432.
The women claimants, 433. Death of Perdiccas, 435. The feats
of Eumenes, 436. The empire of Antigonus, 437. Polysperchon
_versus_ Cassander, 438. Lysimachus, 441. Cassander in power,
442. The name of “king” assumed, 446. The siege of Rhodes, 447.
The fall of Antigonus, 449. Demetrius at large, 450. Death of
Cassander; Demetrius wins and loses, 452. Lysimachus, Arsinoe,
and Agathocles, 454. Seleucus; Antigonus; the Ptolemies, 455.
Ptolemy Ceraunus in Macedonia, 457. Anarchy in Macedonia, 458.
Antigonus Gonatas, 459. The Chremonidean War, 460. Pyrrhus’ son
takes Macedonia, 461.

CHAPTER LX

AFFAIRS IN GREECE PROPER AFTER ALEXANDER’S DEATH (323-318 B.C.) 463

The Lamian War, 463. Return of Demosthenes; death of
Leosthenes, 466. Leonnatus, 467. Death of Leonnatus; naval
war; war in Thessaly, 468. Dissolution of the league, 469. The
capitulation, 470. The end of Demosthenes, 470. Grote’s estimate
of Demosthenes, 472. Antipater in Greece, 474. The deaths of
Antipater and of Demades, 476. Polysperchon and Cassander, 477.
Olympias and Eumenes, 478. Imperial edict recalling exiles, 479.
Contest at Athens, 480. Intrigues of Phocion, 481. Phocion’s
disgrace, 482.

CHAPTER LXI

THE FAILURE OF GRECIAN FREEDOM (318-279 B.C.) 486

Hellas at peace, 487. Athens under Demetrius; Sparta behind
walls, 488. The last acts of Olympias’ power, 490. Ptolemy
in Greece, 493. Athens passive and servile, 494. Success of
Demetrius in Greece, 497. Battle of Ipsus, 498.

CHAPTER LXII

THE EXPLOITS OF PYRRHUS (_ca._ 360-272 B.C.) 502

The antecedents of Pyrrhus, 503. The last adventures of
Demetrius, 504. The end of Lysimachus, king of Macedon, 505.
Death of Seleucus, 506. Invasion of the Gauls, 506. Defence of
the temple at Delphi, 507. Pyrrhus and the Romans, 508. Pyrrhus
summoned by the Tarentines, 508. Pyrrhus in Sicily; his return to
Italy, 510. Magna Græcia subdued by the Romans, 511. Return of
Pyrrhus to Macedonia, 512. Expedition of Pyrrhus against Sparta,
512. Death of Pyrrhus, 513. Antigonus Gonatas, 514.

CHAPTER LXIII

THE LEAGUES AND THEIR WARS (249-167 B.C.) 516

The Ætolians, 516. The Ætolian League, 517. The Achæan League and
Aratus of Sicyon, 518. Aratus controls the league, 520. Aratus
takes Corinth, 521. Sparta under Cleomenes, 523. Antigonus called
in, 524. The Social War, 526. Alliance with Rome, 528. Greek
freedom proclaimed, 531. The Ætolians crushed, 531. Greece at the
mercy of “friendly” Rome, 533. Rome against Philip, 535. Perseus,
king of Macedonia, 537. The humiliation of Greece, 538.

CHAPTER LXIV

THE FINAL DISASTERS (156 B.C.-540 A.D.) 540

The Macedonian insurrection, 542. The Achæan War, 542. The
destruction of Corinth, 545. Greece under the Romans, 546.

CHAPTER LXV

THE KINGDOM OF THE SELEUCIDÆ (323-65 B.C.) 552

Seleucus, 553. Antiochus Soter, 555. Seleucus Philopator, 559.

CHAPTER LXVI

THE KINGDOM OF THE PTOLEMIES (323-30 B.C.) 562

Ptolemy Philadelphus, 568. Ptolemy Euergetes, 570. Ptolemy
Philopator, 572. Epiphanes, 573. Philometor and Physcon, 573.
Roman Interference, 575. Ptolemy Auletes; Cleopatra and the end,
576.