Macedonia : Macedon was an ancient country north of Thessaly & bordering on the north-western Aegean, not originally a part of Greece.
... but only for deeds of valour and glory, and this was why he believed that the more he received from his father, the less would be left for him to conquer. And so every success that was gained by Macedonia inspired in Alexander the dread that another opportunity for action had been squandered on his father. He had no desire to inherit a kingdom which offered him riches, luxuries and the pleasures of... broke into loud applause, while his father, we are told, actually wept for joy, and when Alexander had dismounted h kissed him and said, "My boy, you must find a kingdom bi enough for your ambitions. Macedonia is too small for you." Philip had noticed that his son was self-willed, and that while it was very difficult to influence him by force, he could easily be guided towards his duty by an appeal... he ordered his treasurer Harpalus to send him some.... While Philip was making an expedition against Byzantium Alexander, although he was only sixteen years old, was left behind as regent of Macedonia and keeper of the royal seal During this period he defeated the maedi who had risen revolt, captured their city, drove out its barbarous inhabitant established a colony of Greeks assembled from ...
... Ptolemy, King of Egypt (Ptolemy II Philadelphus), that of Magas, King of Cyrene, brother of Ptolemy, that of Antigonus (Gonatas) of Macedonia, lastly, that of Alexander (either Alexander of Epirus or Alexander of Corinth). To reach Antioch, Alexandria, Cyrene, Macedonia, Epirus or Corinth from India, it would be necessary to pass by Palmyra, and the mention of this celebrated oasis of the Syrian desert... five Greek kings who reigned in the period after Alexander's immediate successors. They were Anti-ochus II Theos of Syria and Western Asia, Ptolemy II Phi-ladelphus of Egypt, Antigonus Gonatas of Macedonia, Magas of Cyrene and Alexander of Epirus or else his namesake of Corinth. The reign-period of these kings were 261-246 B.C., 285-247 B.C., 278-239 B.C., 300-258 (or 250) B.C. and 275-255 B... And in a still earlier age we can put our finger on nothing appreciable, however subtly, when the grand phrases of the Edicts would lead us to expect a great deal, at least in Syria, Egypt, Cyrene, Macedonia and Epirus. Could it not then be that Aśoka was totally unconnected with Ptolemy or any Greek king of the 3rd century B.C. but dealt only with non-Greek rājas and their countries adjacent ...
... The Aim of Life Relentless Adventure and Ambition Introduction Alexander was born in 356 BC. His father, King Philip of Macedonia, had united Greece and had intended to free the Asiatic Greeks from Persian control. He also coveted the riches of the Persian Empire to pay for his professional army. At Philip's death, Alexander first quelled... but only for deeds of valour and glory, and this was why he believed that the more he received from his father, the less would be left for him to conquer. And so every success that was gained by Macedonia inspired in Alexander the dread that another opportunity for action had been squandered on his father. He had no desire to inherit a kingdom which offered him riches, luxuries and the pleasures of... into loud applause, while his father, we are told, actually wept for joy, and when Alexander had dismounted he kissed him and said, "My boy, you must find a kingdom big enough for your ambitions. Macedonia is too small for you." Philip had noticed that his son was self-willed, and that while it was very difficult to influence him by force, he could easily be guided towards his duty by an appeal ...
... insult, degradation and weakness. The first efforts of the new Government have been to save what remained of the outskirts of Turkish empire in Europe, the suzerainty in Crete, the supreme control in Macedonia. Their diplomacy has been strong, outspoken and fearless. It did not flinch nor in any way draw back a step or lower its tone until it forced Greece to a satisfactory attitude and obliged the Powers... The ancient history of Crete supports the sentiment of Greek unity, its later history the sentiment of imperial Ottoman greatness. And apart from Crete, there are inevitable sources of quarrel in Macedonia. Some day the Powers will have to stand aside and allow these natural enemies to settle the question in the only possible way. The result of such non-intervention in an armed struggle could not be ...
... of the national State dies hard. The war of 1914-18 was itself the resultant of the violent clash of several national egoisms: From Morocco to Tripoli, from Tripoli to Thrace and Macedonia, from Macedonia to Herzegovina the electric chain ran with that inevitable logic of causes and results, actions and their fruits which we call Karma, creating minor detonations on its way till it found the ...
... and Belgium were mere determining circumstances; to get to the root causes we have to go back as far at least as Agadir and Algeciras. From Morocco to Tripoli, from Tripoli to Thrace and Macedonia, from Macedonia to Herzegovina the electric chain ran with that inevitable logic of causes and results, actions and their fruits which we call Karma, creating minor detonations on its way till it found the ...
... written today. Fulfilled Lipi. "Break", fulfilled 20 November 1912 Lipi "Greeks & Servians together will dispose of the last efforts of Turkey in Macedonia" apparently fulfilled. (Several days ago) Money from S in a day or two. ... perception 26 November 1912 Everywhere in Europe the subjective fulfilment of the Will is evident, in the action of the Triple Alliance, the restored morale of the Turks, the stronger resistance in Macedonia, at Adrianople, the offensive at Chataldja, the course of events in England. But the material results are not attained. In India there is, as yet, no substantial result. Against roga there is ...
... off from his base of operations, yet in a few hours he carved his way out of the dangerous situation. "What proves his systematic method is that even in the Far East the drafts1 for his army from Macedonia and Greece always reached him according to his directions. This was only possible because he deliberately and most carefully built up a system of rest stages. Without such measures his successes and... p in government of Macedonians and Persians but not, as has been argued, the incorporation of all the subject peoples as partners in the commonwealth. Ten thousand veterans were now sent back to Macedonia with gifts, and the crisis was surmounted. 2 Also called Achaemenid, Persian Hakmanishiya (559-330 B.C.), ancient Iranian dynasty whose kings founded and ruled the Achaemenian Empire. The dynasty ...
... Alexander's empire. Against him and his son Demetrius in long years of fighting was arrayed a coalition of Ptolemy of Egypt, Seleucus of Babylon, Lysimachus of Thrace, and Cassander, son of Antipater of Macedonia. The monarchy, by which the unity of the empire could still be formally maintained, soon disappeared; King Philip Arrhidaeus was murdered and the little Alexander with his unhappy mother Roxane... lost. (...) As the result of over forty years of fighting out of the empire of Alexander three great monarchies came into being: Egypt under the Ptolemies, Asia under the Seleucids, and Macedonia under the Antigonids... Taken from: Alexander the Great by Ulrich Wilcken Translated by G.C. Richards WW Norton and Company Page 70 ...
... world. "Thus then I paint Love." A murmur of applause flew like a wild spirit from mouth to mouth. "Record me a confirmed Pythagorean" said Julian "the soul of Agathon did not perish in Macedonia." "Yet I dare say, Vernon" replied Erinna "you do not believe a word of what Agathon has been saying." "Yet your belief is the bastard of Momus rather than the heir of Peitho" rejoined Helen ...
... if his opponents were kings. When all others had failed to tame the giant horse Bucephalus, Alexander succeeded; seeing which, says Plutarch, Philip acclaimed him with prophetic words: "My son, Macedonia is too small for you; seek out a larger empire worthier of you." Even on the march his wild energy found vent in shooting arrows at passing objects, or in alighting from, and remounting, his chariot ...
... success is faulty & limited, in many directions nil. The sixth is clouded. 26 November 1912 Today a number of prayogas seem to be in course of being fulfilled—eg. Chatalja; Turkish resistance in Macedonia; action of the Triple Alliance. Today also the trikaldrishti has been almost infallibly accurate. The cloud has disappeared, and the siddhi except in the body is once more active. In the karma evidence ...
... allowed, I have not the least intention of doing that at present or for another year at the earliest. When I do go, this or that circumstance will make no difference. Mr.. Gandhi, like the man in Macedonia with St Paul, sent me a message to "come over and help", but I had to say that I was not ready to join in the old politics and had no Page 234 new programme formed for a more spiritual ...
... keen susceptibility to poetry in life, idealism and hero workship. Sri Aurobindo, Centenary Edition, Vol III — pp. 198-99 Alexander was born in 356 B.C. His father. King Philip of Macedonia, had united Greece and had intended to free the Asiatic Greeks from Persian control. He also coveted the rich- es of the Persian Empire to pay for his professional army. At Philip's death, Alexander ...
... themselves and particularly against Sparta whose rule was very harsh. All the city states were much weakened by these constant battles and, despite a last effort to unite against the invader from Macedonia, Philip, they lost and thus Greece became at last unified under Macedonian rule, just before the birth of Alexander the Great in 356 B.C. State of the civilised world in Alexander^ time ...
... silver shields, hipparchy of loyal Persians from the cavalry, and a royal escort of Persian riders. He removed the Macedonian sentries from the castle entrances and replaced them with Persian sentries. He assigned the Persian ephebes to his personal service. Then he sent the Macedonians the order to leave the camp and to go wherever they wished. At last on the third day he came out, and when he... and let it pass was impossible. Alexander convened all the soldiers in a general assembly. When they had gathered, he mounted a platform that stood in front of the troops and spoke thus: — Macedonian officers and soldiers! I have good news for you! A large number of you are exhausted by long years of service, by wounds and ordeals. Some aspire to exchange arms, which they have carried so gloriously... from leaving that I am addressing _________ 1 Remonstrarion: to argue in protest or objection; to remonstrate with the government. 2 Imprecation: curse, or blaspheme. 3 Hypaspist: a macedonian shield bearer. Page 78 you for the last time! You can go wherever you like, I do not care! But I want to remind you what you have become thanks to me! You complain of having been exploited ...
... hundred metres wide. One could see the immense camp of Porus on the other side. Aligned facing west, his army was deployed in battle order. In front, three hundred war elephants were displayed. The Macedonians shuddered on seeing them, for they had never confronted such creatures. The monstrous aspect of these beasts, the cry of which resembled- the sound _____________ 1 Tutelage: the state of being... troops to quickly cross it. When Porus' watchmen came to warn him that a mass of foreign soldiers was marching to meet him, coming up from the south, it was too late: under cover of night all the Macedonians had crossed to the left bank of the river. Porus then understood whom he was dealing with. His last chance of salvation was to rush on Alexander, before his phalanges had time to regroup. He... latter, standing with a gap of twenty metres between each, moved forward as a four-kilometer front. It resembled a moving rampart with each elephant as a tower. The surface occupied by the small Macedonian army was hardly one quarter of the enemy front. It should have been smashed. But once more, intelligence and mobility would gain the upper hand. Soon the scramble was general. Porus directed ...
... infantry, 2,000 chariots and 4,000 elephants. The news struck terror in the hearts of the tired Macedonians and they forced their leader to call a retreat. This was at approximately the end of July 325 B.C. At that time a young Indian named Sandrocottus had met Alexander and repeated to the Macedonian what the latter had already been told by his other Indian informants: the king of the interior... Alexander suggests that the acquiescence of Indians in a change of government and the establishment of a new sovereignty is quite distinct from the war with the Macedonian prefects. There was an interval between the two events, and the Macedonian war came some time after the change of government among Indians." The last-mentioned event is what Raychaudhuri calls "assumption of sovereignty" in "the plains... "existing government" signified an Indian government which is to be distinguished from the government by the Macedonian prefects? The mere fact that the Indians were instigated to overthrow the "existing government" cannot render the government itself Indian. After all, the Macedonian prefects were governing Indians, and to get rid of their sway it is the Indians under them who had to rise up ...
... and not Hellenes or Macedonians? That the Persians should know the Greeks by that name is natural enough, for it was with the Ionians that they first came in contact; but it was not Ionians who invaded India under Alexander, it was not an Ionian prince who gave his daughter to Chundragupta, it was not an Ionian conqueror who crossed the Indus & besieged [ ]. Did the Macedonians on their victorious ...
... reincarnate in another form of flesh and resume the course of his terrestrial experiences with another name and in another environment. Achilles, let us say, is reborn as Alexander, the son of Philip, a Macedonian, conqueror not of Hector but of Darius, with a wider scope, with larger destinies; but it is still Achilles, it is the same personality that is reborn, only the bodily circumstances are different ...
... centripetal force was always there manifested in leagues, associations of States, suzerainties like the Spartan and Athenian. It realised itself in the end, first, imperfectly and temporarily by the Macedonian overrule, then, by a strange enough development, through the evolution of the Page 306 Eastern Roman world into a Greek and Byzantine Empire, and it has again revived in modern Greece ...
... Western Asia by the Gaelic race and the subsequent disunion and decline of Gaul were probably due to the same phenomenon and proceeded from a still more immature and ill-formed unification than the Macedonian. All became the starting-point of great empire-movements before they had become the keystone of securely built national unities. These empires, therefore, could not endure. Some lasted longer ...
... THOAS This was a secret haste! LEOSTHENES Is it possible? We had our heel upon the Parthian's throat. CLEOPATRA Since Parthia swept through the Iranian East Wrecking the mighty Macedonian's toil, War sways for ever like a darkened sea In turmoil twixt our realms. How many heart-strings Have broken, what tears of anguish have been wept And eyes sought eastward unreturning eyes!... restrain him. Almost we hear in Antioch His trumpets now. Only Nicanor and the hills Hardly protect my crown, my brittle crown! CLEOPATRA Antiochus comes! Page 272 TIMOCLES The Macedonian legions Linger somewhere upon the wide Aegean. Sea And land contend against my monarchy. Your brother sends no certain word. CLEOPATRA It will come. Could not the Armenian helpers stay... slain; But being mortal at each step has lost A little blood. His veins are empty now. Where will he get new armies? His small force May beat Nicanor's large one, even reach Antioch, To find the Macedonian there. They have landed. He is ours, Theras, this great god of tempest, Our captive whom he threatens, doomed to death While he yet conquers. Timocles enters with Cleone, then the musicians ...
... largest in size. Owing to this, their country has never been conquered by any foreign king; for all other nations dread the overwhelming number and strength of these animals. Thus Alexander the Macedonian, after conquering 1. The Cambridge History of India, I, p. 468, fn. 5. 2. Ibid., p. 469. 3. The Classical Accounts of India, p. 234. Page 153 all Asia... despised by his subjects for the wickedness of his disposition and the meanness of his origin." Alongside the previous "kings", these words should mean: all the territory which was banded against the Macedonian had for practical purposes one king who, as distinguished from the other crowned head, ruled over the whole country which Alexander had to face first in the course of his projected advance. This ...
... prompted to aspire to royalty by an omen significant of an august destiny." Then we are told of Sandrocottus's insolent behaviour with Alexander and his seeking safety by a speedy flight because the Macedonian had ordered the death-penalty for him. The sequel runs: "When he lay down overcome with fatigue and had fallen into a deep sleep, a lion of enormous size approaching the slumberer licked with its ...
... Classical Accounts..., p. 199. 2. Historiarum Philippicarum, XV, iv. The Classical Accounts..., p. 193. Page 63 to Plutarch, the meeting took place at about the time the Macedonians "most resolutely opposed Alexander when he insisted that they should cross the Ganges." Plutarch, of course, is in error if he meant the Ganges to be the last river reached by Alexander. He did have... which in some way he was affined to the wine-aspect of the Hellenic god. The fusion is to be expected, since he was to the Greeks as much an empire-builder as a god. In the imagination of the Macedonian soldiers he was the subject of Euripides's fable - a conqueror of the East whom they endowed with a constructive role in the remote past of India. This role bulked large in the thought of Megasthenes... are likely to be voiced. First, do we not hear of a King of Māgadha, whom the Greeks call Xandrames and whose powerful army on the other bank of the Ganges was what chiefly daunted the Macedonians of Alexander and caused their refusal to march with him further beyond the River Hyphasis (Beās)? How then could Pātaliputra have been in republican hands after the end of the Āndhras and before ...
... later Hindu philosophy is full of this mighty realisation of the still, self-luminous & inactive Brahman. In those preBuddhistic ascetics, naked of the world and utterly calm, whom the unresting Macedonian found in the Asiatic ultima Thule of his insatiable march, in the all-conquering soul of Buddha, in the victorious intellect of Shankara, in the aspiration and self-fulfilment of a million saints ...
... Page 631 245, 375, 419, 426, 435, 455, 456-7, 477, 480, 481, 498, 540 Macdonald, George, 437 Macdonell, A. A., 65, 66, 128 Macco-Calingae, 165 Macedonian prefects, 195-200 Mādhava-gupta, 487 Madra, Madrakas/Madras, 162, 424, 426, 528, 573 Mādri (Vāhlīki), 528 'Maga', Magā, Magas, 'Maka', 'Makā', 268, 269, 276-77, 593 ...
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