Ancient States and Empires Part 45

M720 Battle of Chaeronea. Its decisive character. Macedonian phalanx.

M721 Desperate measures of Athens.

M722 Fall of Thebes.

M723 Philip invades the Peloponnesus. Collects a large force against the Persians.

M724 Death of Philip.

M725 Alexander. Character of Philip.

M726 Alexander the Great. Sent by Providence to do a great work.

M727 Which was prepared by his father. Extent of the Persian empire. The acc.u.mulation of riches in the royal cities.

M728 Philip had aspired to overturn the empire. Knowing its internal weakness.

M729 But this work is reserved for Alexander. Who was the conqueror of the Oriental world? What const.i.tuted his military genius.

M730 It was his pa.s.sion to conquer, not reconstruct.

M731 His early history. His conquest of the Grecian States.

M732 He annihilates the Theban power. Moral effect of his merciless severity. He is master of Greece.

M733 Prepares to invade Persia.

M734 He marshals his forces in Asia. His phalanx and the armor of his troops.

M735 His generals.

M736 Alexander is un.o.bstructed in crossing the h.e.l.lespont. Error of the Persians. Battle of the Granicus. Alexander dispenses with his fleet. Fall of Miletus.

M737 The siege of Halicarna.s.sus. Conquest of Asia Minor.

M738 The Persians resolve on offensive operations.

M739 Neglect to guard the mountain pa.s.ses. Which Alexander pa.s.ses through un.o.bstructed. Infatuation and errors of the Persians. The Persians advance to Issus.

M740 The great and decisive battle of Issus.

M741 The mistakes of the Persians, and the cowardice of Darius.

M742 Important consequences of the battle.

M743 The flight and inaction of Darius.

M744 The siege of Tyre. Its fall.

M745 Offer of Darius. Rejected by Alexander.

M746 Who conquers Egypt.

M747 Founding of Alexandria.

M748 Alexander marches to the Euphrates.

M749 Marshalling of the armies at Arbela.

M750 Utter discomfiture of Darius. His inglorious flight. The battle of Arbela a death-blow to Persia. Military genius of the conqueror.

M751 Surrender of Babylon and Susa.

M752 The enormous treasures of the Persian Kings.

M753 Successive conquests of Alexander.

M754 He kills his friend c.l.i.tus. Agony and remorse of Alexander.

M755 He penetrates to the Indus. Porus.

M756 The soldiers of Alexander refuse to advance further to the East.

M757 He returns to Persepolis. His abandonment to pleasure.

M758 Death of Hephaestion and grief of Alexander.

M759 His entrance into Babylon. Splendor of the funeral of Hephaestion.

Death of Alexander.

M760 His boundless ambition. His death a fortunate event. Effects of his conquests.

M761 Obscurity of the early history of Rome.

M762 aeneas.

M763 Latium. Foundation of Rome.

M764 The early inhabitants. Rome founded in violence.

M765 The Sabine element of Rome.

M766 The const.i.tution.

M767 Numa Pompilius.

M768 Establishment of religion.

M769 Tullus Hostilius. The Horatii and the Curiatii.

M770 Destruction of Alba.

M771 The origin of plebians.

M772 Tarquinius Priscus.

M773 His public work.

M774 Servius Tullius.

M775 His reforms.

M776 Based on property. New division of the people.

M777 Comitia Centuriata.

M778 The despotism of Tarquin.

M779 The legend of Lucretia. Death of Lucretia. Banishment of the Tarquins.

M780 The restoration of power to the patricians.

M781 Jurisprudence.

M782 Religion. Objects of wors.h.i.+p.

M783 Agriculture. Fruits and cereals.

M784 Trades.

M785 Commerce.

M786 Measures and weights.

M787 Heroic period of Roman History.

M788 The consuls.

M789 The Senate.

M790 Brutus the first consul.

M791 The legends of ancient Rome. Tarquin attempts to recover his throne.

M792 Etruria.

M793 War with the Etruscans.

M794 Dictators.

M795 Oppression and miseries of the plebeians.

M796 Their rebellion.

M797 The Tribunes. Comitia Tributa.

M798 aediles.

M799 Coriola.n.u.s.

M800 Spurius Ca.s.sius. Agrarian law.

M801 Fabius. Increased power of plebians.

M802 The dictators.h.i.+p of Cincinnatus.

M803 The decemvirs.-Appius Claudius.

M804 His injustice and punishment.

M805 Intermarriage of plebians and patricians.

M806 Censors.

M807 Quaestors.

M808 The siege and fall of Veii.

M809 Invasion of the Gauls. Habits and manners of the Gauls.

M810 Disastrous battle with the Gauls.

M811 The fall of Rome.

M812 M. Manlius.

M813 His services and fall. The Lincinian rogation.

M814 The period of conquest begins.

M815 Samnium.

M816 The Latins throw off the Roman yoke.

M817 Reconquest of the Latin cities.

M818 Jealousy of the Samnites.