Evening Star Newspaper, January 1, 1928, Page 68

i § s sweTen 1S SUPPOSED 1o DEP “2 N . WATERTRONT SCEN t_\ AN AMCIENTGREEK L porT. THERE ARE { scveRAL MISTARES N THE PICTORE. T4 N 1 NE 1S~ TG MA - |8THE veFT ForeaRouND I HAS A MODERN SOCk- ON OME FOOT AND A SANDAL ONTHE OTHER = mH LIGHTS A S orh N o eewd ¢ (oR MACEPONIA) 1S THAT OF A REMARKABLE ILING WHO BY HIS MILITARYSKILL STATESMANSHIPAND GENIUS FOR ORGAN- 1ZING RAISED HIS IKINGPOM FROM AN INSIGNIFICANTCOUNTRY To A GREAT NATION - BEFORE PHILIP BECAME KING, MACTEDON WAS BULLIED BY THEBES AND ATHENS, FORCEDT0 PAY TRIBUTE To THE ILLYRIANS, CUT OFF FROM THE SEA BY CHALCIDICE AND MARRIED BY BARBARIAN TRIBES. Bv 356 B.C.,PHILIPHAD MADE HIS FRONTIERS SECURE AGAINST THE ATTACKS OF NEIGHBORING BARBARIANS. TN THE SAME YEAR, HE SEIZED THE GOLD MINES OfF MOUNT PAN- GEA INTHRACE WHICH VIELDED HIM ALL INCOME. OF MORE THAN A MILLION DousRS ANEAR ,AND ENABLED HiM TO SUPPORT HIS ARMY, - flue GREEKS WERE ALARMED BY THE RAPID GROWTH OF MACEDONIAN POWER. DEMOSTHENES, THE FAMOUS ATHERIAN ORATOR. 1N A SERIES OF VIGOROUS ORATIONS KNOWN AS THE PHILIPPICS | EXPOSED PHILIPS DESIGHS, AND TRIED TO AROUSE BUT NOTHING WAS DONE LUNTIL (T WAS TOO LATE , ww——o THE GREEKS TO CONCERTEDALTICN, T"/eés ; asm T0 THEBES'AS A HOSTAGE, INTHE HOUSE OF EPAMINONDAS, THE GREAY THEBAN LEADIZR, AND SAW HOW A NATION CouL BEECOME POWERFUL THROUGH ONE MANS GENIUS. HE ALSO LEARNED THE ART OF WAR BY WATCHING THE THEBAN SOLDIERS AT DRiLb ,—° PHILIP oF MACEPON SHoWH BY GLACIK ARGASIT : fim—c MEN AND MOKNEY THE SINEWS OF WAR, AT HIS COMMAND, PHILIP SET OULT TO GAIN THE SUPREM ALY OF GREECE . BY CONQUESTAND SKIUFUL DICLOMACY HE EXTENDED HIS DOMINIONS ALONG THE SHORE OF THE AEGEAN SEA UNTIL THEY REACHED F20M THE HELLESPONT OM THE CAST TO THE PASS OF THERMOPYLAL ON THE SOUTH .« 1 il © McClure Newspape HE FICRY ELOGQUENCE OF DEMOS- THENES FINALLY LED THE ATHENIANS AND THEBANS 10 JOIN FORLES TO RESIST PHAILIP. AT THE BATTLE OF CHALRONEA (N 338,8.C, THE MoCE- r Syndicate & AND PHILIE MARCHED INTL (AREECE If You Save This Page Each Weelk You Will Have a Complete History of Man. WHEN THAT GREEI CITY WAS AT THE HEIGHT OF ITS POWER, PHILIP GREWUR DONIAK PHALANY ROODTED THE ALLIES, HEN KING PeRDICCAS DIED,PHILIP BECAME GUARDIANOF HIS YOUNG NEPHEW, AMYNTAS, WHO SUCCEEDED TO THE THRONE. NoT LONG AFTER THIS, PRILIP, WITH THE AIDOF THE ARMY HAD HIMSELF PROCLAIMED KING (359 B.C.). fiHlLlP PREVENTED THE GREEKS COMBINING AGAINST HIM BY BRIBERY, AND HIS SUCLESS IN SEIZING STRONG CITIES WAS DUE IN MANY CASES YO BRIBING TRAMITORS TOOPEN THE GATES, ONIE OF NIS MAXIMS WAS,"NO CITY 1S TOO STRONG TO BE TAKEN, IF A MULE LADEN WITH GOLP CAN BE DRIVEN INTO T, - MHEGES WAS CAPTURED AND ATHENS MADE ATREATY OF PEACE WITH THE INVADER. NEARLY ALL THE GREEGK STATES RECOGNIZED PHILIPAS THEIR CHIEF, IN337 B.C.,PHILIP UNITED THE GREEKS FOR AN EXPEPITION AGAINST PERSWA TO FREE THE ASIANC GREEK COLONIES, AND> AVENGE THEZ INVASIONOF GREECE BY XERXES, ~—4— o . THE GREATEST INTHE WORLD. HIS FIRST BHEI?E ARE THRELE CTHER ERRORS IN THE PiCTURE. CAN veou DETECT THEM ? THE MISTAKES wiLL BE POINTED ouT 1y THIS SPACE 1M THE NEXT CHAPTER . —- [NGTE-THE SOLDIERS IN T = B REAR RAKKS HAD LONGER SPEARS \WHICH THEY THRUST BETWECGHN THE SOLDIERS IN THE FRONT RANK, —° NILIP WISHED Te ISKINGDOM ACT WAS T0 RAISE A LARGE STANDING ARMY, ORGANIZED LIKE THAT OF THEBES. _He TRAINED RIS INFANTRY To FIGHT IN PHALANX' FORMATION, A SOLID,MASSED BATTLE LINE,MANY RANKS DEEPR, ITS FRONT AND FLANKS BRISTLING WITH SPEARS, AND THE SHIELDS OF THE- SOLDIERS LOCIKED TOGETHER, THEWHOLE BAND MoNING LIKE A MACHINE, = o ¥ S Eml& BESIEGING A CITY, PHILIP WAS STRUCK IN THE LEFT EVE BY AN ARROW WHICH,IT IS SAID, BLREATAG ADDRESSED TO PHILIPS LEFT EVE "AND SIGNED BY THE ARCHER WHEN THE CITY FELL, PRILIP HAD THE MARKSMAN * POY TO DEATH, —o BN 336 B.C.,PHILIP WAS IN THE MIDST OF PREPARATIONS FOR THE- INVASION OF PERSLA \WHEN HE WAS MURDCRED BY RAUSANIUS, A MACE - DONLAN NOBLE WHOSE ENMITY HE HAD (NCURRED , AND THE CARRYING OUT OF HIS AMBIMOLVS PLANS FELLTO HIS SON, ALEXANPER THE GREAT, VXY EnARTERQ S DEAMOS TNENE S, Y0 WS HOUND TO SUCCAED -t S