The House of Seleucus, Том 1E. Arnold, 1902 |
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Achaemenian Achaeus Alexander Alexander's Alexandria Anab Antigonus Antiochus Antiochus Hierax Antiochus II Antipater Apamea Ariarathes army Arsaces Asia Minor Athens Attalus Babylon Babylonia Bactria barbarian battle Berenice Bithynian called Cappadocia Carian Cassander Cilicia coast coins command conquest death Demetrius desert Diod Droysen dynasty East Egypt Empire Ephesus Eumenes Euphrates force Galatians garrison Greek Greek cities hand Haussoullier Hellenic Heraclea house of Seleucus Ibid India inscription Ipsus Irân Irânian Keraunos King's kingdom land Laodice Lycia Lysimachus Macedonian Macedonian chiefs Media Memnon Michel Mithridates Molon mountain native Niese Northern Orontes Parthia Patrocles Perdiccas Pergamos Persian Phrygia Pithon Plin Plutarch Polyb possession province Ptolemaïc Ptolemy Ptolemy Keraunos region reign Revue de Philol river road royal rule Sardis satrap seems Seleucid court Seleucid King Strabo Strabo xvi Stratonice Syria Taurus temple Tigris tribes troops valley καὶ τὴν τῶν
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Сторінка 4 - Nevertheless the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel; and they said, Nay; but we will have a king over us ; that we also may be like all the nations; and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles.
Сторінка 38 - Is not this great Babylon, which I have built for the royal dwelling-place, by the might of my power and for the glory of my majesty?
Сторінка 260 - Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me. Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them.
Сторінка 197 - The destructive army of the Gauls shall pipe ; they shall lawlessly Ravage Asia ; and God shall make it yet worse For all who dwell by the shores of the sea For a little while. But soon the son of Cronus shall stir up a helper for them, A dear son of a Zeus-reared bull, Who shall bring a day of doom on all the Gauls.
Сторінка 19 - ... these centuries gone on side by side. Free states have been able, without prejudice to their freedom, to bring under their rule the more backward races of the earth. To-day an enormous part of the East is under the direct government of Europeans; all of it is probably destined (unless it can assimilate the dominant civilization, as the Japanese appear to have done) to be so at no distant date. We may say then with perfect truth that the work being done by European nations, and especially by England,...
Сторінка 231 - Such an enthusiasm for philosophy and all the other parts of a liberal education has been developed in the people of this city," says Strabo, 12 " that they have surpassed Athens and Alexandria and all other places one might mention as seats of learning and philosophical study.
Сторінка 207 - The land which we call Syria is created by the line of mountains which go from the Taurus on the north as far as the Gulf of 'Akaba in the Red Sea. These mountains prevent the Arabian desert, traversed by the Euphrates and Tigris, from extending quite to the eastern shore of the Mediterranean. From its position Syria has always been the bridge between Egypt and Asia. But it was not only traversed by a worldroute going north and south, it was crossed east and west by the routes from Babylon and the...
Сторінка 28 - In the spring of 323 before Christ the whole order of things from the Adriatic away to the mountains of Central Asia and the dusty plains of the Panjab rested upon a single will, a single brain, nurtured in Hellenic thought. Then the hand of God, as if trying some fantastic experiment, plucked this man away. Who could predict for a moment what the result would be?
Сторінка 75 - ... from point to point he holds fast his clue. Thus to illustrate at once his frankness and his force : For us a great cloud comes down upon the contest. History has mainly forgotten it. We can only see dim glints of armies that sweep over Western Asia, and are conscious of an imbroglio of involved wars. But we can understand the stupendous nature of that task which the house of Seleucus set itself to do — to hold together under one scepter against all the forces which battered it, forces stronger...
Сторінка 76 - The natural clefts of the Empire, the fissures which were so apt at any weakening of the central authority to gape, followed geographical barriers. From Northern Syria the western provinces were cut off by the line of the Taurus; on the east the desert separated it from the seats of AssyrioBabylonian civilization, and beyond that again the mountainwall of Zagrus fenced Iran. To hold these geographically detached members from a single base is the standing problem.