The House of Seleucus, Том 1E. Arnold, 1902 |
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Achaemenian Achaeus Alexander Alexander's Alexandria Anab Antigonus Antiochus Antiochus II Antipater Apamea Ariarathes army Arsaces Asia Minor Athens Attalus Babylon Babylonia Bactria barbarian battle Berenice Bithynian called Cappadocia Caria 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 Polyaen 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 298 - And this is the chiefest conquest in the opinion of His Sacred Majesty — the conquest by the Law of Piety — this it is that is won by His Sacred Majesty both in his own dominions and in all the neighbouring realms as far as six hundred leagues — where the Greek (Yona) King named Antiochus dwells, and north of that Antiochus to where dwell the four kings severally named Ptolemy, Antigonus, Magas and Alexander...
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 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 322 - Two handfuls of white dust, shut in an urn of brass" and "eyes grown dim with gazing on the pilotstars.
Сторінка 75 - ... scene of action, embarrassed at the start ; in the second place, the defection of a great part of the imperial army left him for the time being terribly short of men. However, he strikes in rapidly, hurrying westward, and the first of all those wars for the restoration of the Empire of Seleucus begins. 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...
Сторінка 197 - Then having crossed the narrow strait of the Hellespont 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 doom on all the Gauls." By the son of a bull, Pausanias adds, she meant Attalus, king of Pergamon whom a Delphic oracle also called 'bull-horned...
Сторінка 224 - Apamea (cire. 135-51 BC) ; and even if his description be true only of the later days of the Seleucid dynasty, the decline must have begun long before. " The people of these cities are relieved by the fertility of their soil from a laborious struggle for existence. Life is a continuous series of social festivities. Their gymnasiums they use as baths, where they anoint themselves with costly oils and myrrhs.
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.