"The utmost spirit or rivalry was not lacking on either side, for the Macedonians were bent on saving their ships, while the Siceliotes wished not only to be regarded as victors over the Carthaginians and the barbarians of Italy, but also to show themselves in the Greek arena as more then a match for the Macedonians, whose spears had subjected both Asia and Europe." (Diodorus Siculus - 2.2)Diodorus Siculus lived from est. 90BC to 30BC.
Sunday, April 29, 2007
Diodorus Siculus - Book 22 (Quote One)
Diodorus Siculus - Book 18 (Quote Three)
"Then after such a combat I have described, the battle was broken off, as the scales of victory swung in favour of the Macedonians. More then 500 of the Greeks were killed in the battle, and 130 of the Macedonians." (Diodorus Siculus - 17.5)Diodorus Siculus lived from est. 90BC to 30BC.
Diodorus Siculus - Book 18 (Quote Two)
"Now that this great force had been added to the Athenians, the Greeks, who far outnumbered the Macedonians, were successful." (Diodorus Siculus - 12.4)
Diodorus Siculus lived from est. 90BC to 30BC.
Diodorus Siculus - Book 18 (Quote One)
"When oaths to this effect had been sworn and the Greeks were interspersed among the Macedonians, Pithon was greatly pleased, seeing that the affair was progressing according to his intentions; but the Macedonians remembering the orders of Perdiccas and having no regard for the oaths that had been sworn, broke faith with the Greeks. Setting upon them unexpectedly and catching them off their ground, they shot them all down with javelins and seized their possessions as plunder. Pithon then, cheated of his hopes, came back with the Macedonians to Perdiccas." (Diodorus Siculus - 7.8-9)
Diodorus Siculus lived from est. 90BC to 30BC.
Diodorus Siculus - Book 17 (Quote Two)
"The Macedonians and Alexander backed Coragus because he was one of them while the Greeks favored Dioxippus." (Diodorus Siculus - 100.4)Diodorus Siculus lived from est. 90BC to 30BC.
Diodorus Siculus - Book 17 (Quote One)
"For many days the king lay helpless under his treatment, and the Greeks who had been settled in Bactria and Sogdiana, who had long borne unhappily their sojourn among peoples of another race and now received word that the king has died of his wounds, revolted against the Macedonians. They formed a band of 3,000 men and underwent great hardship on their homeward route. Later they were massacred by the Macedonians after Alexander's death." (Diodorus Siculus - 99.5)
Diodorus Siculus lived from est. 90BC to 30BC.
Thucydides - History of the Peloponnesian War (Quote Three)
"Thus, the majority of the native army gave up attacking the Hellens with Brasidas in the open country. Leaving a part of their force behind to follow up and harass his march, the rest ran ahead after the Macedonians who were in flight, killing all whom they overtook, and so reached and occupied, before Brasidas could get there, the narrow pass between two hills that leads into the coutnry of Arrhabaeus, knowing that this was the only route by which he could retreat. " (Thucydides 4.127)Thucydides lived from est. 460 BC to 395 BC.
Thucydides - History of the Peloponnesian War (Quote Two)
"There were altogether about 3,000 Hellenic hoplites; the total cavalry force of Macedonians and Chalcidians came to nearly 1,000, and there was also a great crowd of native troops." (Thucydides - 4.124)Thucydides lived from est. 460 BC to 395 BC.
Thucydides - History of the Peloponnesian War (Quote One)
"Meanwhile Brasidas and Perdiccas made a second expedition together into Lyncus against Arrhabaeus. Perdiccas' army consisted of the forcesof his Macedonian subjects together with a force of hplites from the Hellenes living in Macedonia." (Thucydides - 4.124)Thucydides lived from est. 460 BC to 395 BC.
Saturday, April 21, 2007
Flavius Arrianus Xenophon (Arrian) - The Campaigns of Alexander (Quote One)
"The story goes that Alexander, upon his succession to the throne, went into the Peloponnese, where he assembled all the Greeks in that part of the country and asked them for the command of the campaign against Persia, which they had previously granted to Philip. The only people to refuse his request were the Lacedaemonians, who declared that the tradition of their country forbade them to serve under a foreign commander; it was their prerogative to lead others. At Athens, too, there was certain amount of trouble; but resistance collapsed the moment Alexander approached, and he was granted even greater honours than his father Philip before him. This settled, he returned to Macedonia and prepared for his Asian campaign." (Arrian - 1.42)Arrian lived from est. 86 AD to 146 AD.
The Inaugural Macedonian Message - My Quote
Interregnum shall ascend for the sins of the one – for the sins of the one upon the star of the sun. The children of Makedon shall rise as one – as in sententia they live almost affected by none. Though the factors remain unbalanced in sum – bear in mind that Makedons overcome. Forever we’ll live in the state of the feudum antiquum – the serment of Makedon the mediate datum. In blood and in tears we sweat without joy – but remember we’re here the past not destroyed.
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