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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 235. Not illustrated. Chapters: 4th-Century Bc Conflicts, 4th-Century Bc Military Alliances, 4th-Century Bc Treaties, Samnite Wars, Battle of Leuctra, League of Corinth, Peace of Antalcidas, Rise of Macedon, Wars of Alexander the Great, Corinthian War, Warring States Period, Battle of Chaeronea, Diadochi, Peace of Philocrates, Alexander's Indian Campaign, Battle of Issus, Battle of Crocus Field, Partition of Babylon, Battle of the Allia, Alexander's Balkan Campaign, Battle of Ipsus, Battle of Gabiene, Lamian War, Babylonian War, Treaties Between Amyntas Iii and the Chalcidians, Social War, Battle of Mantinea, Battle of Maling, Latin League, Battle of the Caudine Forks, Battle of Tegyra, Partition of Triparadisus, Siege of Rhodes, Battle of Paraitacene, Second Athenian Empire, Battle of Megalopolis, Battle of Veii, Battle of Pandosia, Battle of Guiling, Battle of Gaza, Battle of Bovianum, Foreign War, Battle of Mount Gaurus, Battle of Naxos, Battle of Cynoscephalae, Battle of Salamis in Cyprus, Battle of Lake Vadimo, Battle of Vesuvius, Battle of Trifanum, Battle of Lautulae, Battle of the Elleporus, Siege of Rhegium, Capture of Neapolis, Decree of Aristoteles, Battle of Suessula, Treaty of the Common Peace. Excerpt: The rise of Macedon, from a small kingdom at the periphery of Classical Greek affairs, to one which came to dominate the entire Hellenic world (and beyond), occurred in the space of just 25 years, between 359336 BC. This ascendancy is largely attributable to the personality and policies of Philip II. Intact and relatively detailed histories of Greece cover the period ca. 500362 BC, in the form of Herodotus's The Histories, Thucydides's History of the Peloponnesian War, and Xenophon's Hellenica. However, no extant history specifically covers the relevant period of Greek history (359-336 BC). The main source for the pe...
