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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: 59. Chapters: Samnite Wars, Battle of Leuctra, Rise of Macedon, Wars of Alexander the Great, Warring States Period, Corinthian War, Battle of Chaeronea, Battle of Crocus Field, Alexander's Indian campaign, Wars of the Diadochi, Battle of Issus, Battle of the Allia, Alexander's Balkan campaign, Battle of Ipsus, Battle of Gabiene, Lamian War, Babylonian War, Social War, Battle of Mantinea, Battle of Maling, Battle of the Caudine Forks, Battle of Tegyra, Seleucid-Mauryan war, Battle of Paraitacene, Siege of Rhodes, Boeotian War, Battle of Megalopolis, Battle of Embata, Battle of Veii, Battle of Pandosia, Conquest of the Nanda Empire, Battle of Guiling, Battle of Bovianum, Battle of Gaza, Foreign War, Battle of Mount Gaurus, Battle of Naxos, Battle of Salamis, Battle of Cynoscephalae, Battle of Lake Vadimo, Battle of Vesuvius, Battle of Lautulae, Battle of Trifanum, Battle of the Elleporus, Siege of Rhegium, Battle of the River Thatis, Capture of Neapolis, Battle of Suessula. 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 359-336 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. 500-362 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 period is Diodorus Siculus's Bibliotheca historica, written in the 1st century BC, which is therefore very much a secondary source. Diodorus devotes Book XVI to the period of Philip's reign, but the action is much compressed, and due to the ...
