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Excerpt from The History of Ancient Greece, Its Colonies, and Conquests, Vol. 4: From the Earliest Accounts Till the Division of the Macedonian Empire in the East; Including the History of Literature, Philosophy, and the Fine Arts History of Macedon. - Reign of Archelaus. - Series of Usurpations and Revolutions. - Perdiccas defeated by the Illyrians. - Distracted State of Macedon. - First Transactions of Philip. - State of Thrace and Pæonia. - Philip defeats Argæus and the Athenians - His Treatment of the Prisoners. - His military Arrangements. - He defeats the Illyrians. - His Designs against Amphipolis. - He prevents an Alliance between Athens and Olyntbus. - Amufes the Athenians. - Takes Amphipolis. - His Con quests in Thrace. - The Mines of Crenidæ. - Philip marries Olympias.-His Letter to Aristotle. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.