Identifier: storyofancientna00west (find matches)
Title: The story of the ancient nations : a text-book for high schools
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Westermann, William Linn, 1873-1954
Subjects: History, Ancient
Publisher: New York : London : D. Appleton and Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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Macedon came into the power of AntigonusGonatas, grandson of the Antigonus who had been killedat the battle of Ipsus. Under these three noble Macedonianfamilies, the Ptolemies, the Seleucids, and the Antigonids,the kingdoms hewn out of Alexanders empire were ruleduntil, one after the other, they fell by conquest before thearmies of the Roman republic.1 273. Warfare in the Third Century.—The political his-tory of the third century is a confused and bloody tale ofintrigue and war between the rulers of Egypt, Macedon,and Asia. In their armies the use of mercenaries, men whomade fighting a profession, greatly increased. The bestof these were Macedonians and Greeks. The Seleucidsadopted the scythe-bearing chariots which the Persianshad used before them. It became the custom also to makeuse of great troops of elephants, trained to crush through 1 To these must be added the kingdom of Pcrgamum which sprangup in western Asia Minor in the third century b. c. under a Macedoniannamed Attalus.
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THE END OF THE GREEK STATES 217 the ranks of the opposing lines. Seleucus is said to have had480 of them in his army at the battle of Ipsus. In the secondcentury b. c, they disappeared from warfare in the Mediter-ranean countries, because they often proved to be unmanage-able and, when wounded, as dangerous to friends as to foes.The science of besieging cities with large machines wasdeveloped to a higher point in this period than ever before.Engineers in the army of Demetrius built a wooden towerseveral stories in height, protected by raw hides upon theoutside. This was equipped with catapults which threwstones and heavy darts, and was rolled up to the opposingwalls on heavy wheels. 274. Invasion of the Celts.—While the successors of Alex-ander were plotting and fighting for power, several tribesof Celts, the blue-eyed barbarians of northern Europe,crossed the Danube River and marched through Thessaly,Macedon, and Greece, plundering and gathering bootyas they went. In the year 279 b

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