Philip and Alexander of Macedon : two essays in biography

Front matter

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Preface

The heroes of these essays need no introduction, and I have no excuse for making them my theme if this book supplies none. I treat the two Makers of Macedon, not in proportion to their respective bulk in history, but to the number of books written already about them. Philip, so far as I know, supplies the central figure to no extant biography ; Alexander has inspired a whole literature.

My debts to previous students are obvious enough, even when not indicated in footnotes. I believe I have left very few works bearing on the subject unread, and my unconscious obligations must be many. I thank the authorities of the Departments of Coins and Medals and of Classical Antiquities at the British Museum, and also of the Cabinet des Medailles at Paris, for material supplied for my illustrations. To those who have criticised my book while in the press — Mr. R. W. Macan, Reader in Ancient History in the University of Oxford, and

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Mr. C. H. Turner, Fellow of Magdalen — I can offer, by a mere expression of thanks in a Preface, no return in the least commensurate with the acute and learned labour which they have bestowed. They have emended many things ; and if still many shortcomings remain, I can plead only the interruptions which are inseparable from the life of an exploring scholar.

D. G. H.

London, December 14, 1896.

Table Of Contents

I. Philip. page

Prologue. The Man of the Age 1

Introductory. Macedonians and feudatories 4