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Antigonus Doson Appointed Generalissimo
On his part, Antigonus advanced without any casualty
Antigonus receives the Acrocorinthus.
into the Peloponnese, and took over the
Acrocorinthus; and, without wasting time there,
pushed on in his enterprise and entered Argos.
He only stayed there long enough to compliment the Argives
on their conduct, and to provide for the security of the
city; and then immediately starting again directed his
march towards Arcadia; and after ejecting. the garrisons
from the posts which had been fortified by Cleomenes in the
territories of Aegys and Belmina, and, putting those strongholds in the hands of the people of Megalopolis, he went
to Aegium to attend the meeting of the Achaean league.
There he made a statement of his own proceedings, and consulted with the meeting as to the measures to be taken in the
future. He was appointed commander-in-chief of the allied
army, and went into winter quarters at Sicyon and Corinth.
At the approach of spring he broke u
Music in Arcadia
Now, seeing that the Arcadians as a whole have a
The reasons of the barbarity of the Cynaethans. Their neglect of the refining influences of
music, which is carefully encouraged in the rest of Arcadia.
reputation for virtue throughout Greece, not
only in respect of their hospitality and humanity,
but especially fArcadia.
reputation for virtue throughout Greece, not
only in respect of their hospitality and humanity,
but especially for their scrupulous piety, it
seems worth while to investigate briefly the
barbarous character of the Cynaethans: and
inquire how it came about that, though indisputably Arcadians in race, they at that time so
far surpassed the rest of Greece in cruelty and
contempt of law.
They seem then to me to be the first, and indeed the
only, Arcadians who have abandoned institutions nobly conceived by their ancestors and admirably adapted to the
character of all the inhabitants of Arcadia. For music, and I
mean by that true music, which it is advantageous to every one
to practice, is obligatory with the Arcadians. For we must
not think, as Ephorus in a hasty sentence
Why the Ancient Arcadians Turned to Music
Now the object of the ancient Arcadians in introducing
The object of the musical training of the Arcadians.
these customs was not, as I think, the gratification of luxury and extravagance. They
saw that Arcadia was a nation of workers;
that the life of the people was laborious and hard; and
that, as a natural consequence of the coldness and gloom
which were the prevailing features of a great part of the
country, the general character of the people was r souls by the civilising and softening
influence of such culture. The people of Cynaetha entirely
neglected these things, although they needed them more than
any one else, because their climate and country is by far the
most unfavourable in all Arcadia; and on the contrary gave
their whole minds to mutual animosities and contentions. They
in consequence became finally so brutalised, that no Greek city
has ever witnessed a longer series of the most atrocious crimes.
I will give one instance of
Philip In Arcadia
Continuing his march through Arcadia, and encountering
heavy snow storms and much fatigue in the pass over
Mount Oligyrtus, he arrived on the third day at
Caphyae. Philip advances to Psophis. There he rested his army for two
days, and was joined by Aratus the younger,
and the Achaean soldiers whom he had collected; so that,
with an army now amounting to ten thousand men, he advanced
by way of Clitoria towards Psophis, collecting missiles and
scaling ladders from the towns through which he passed.
Psophis is a place of acknowledged antiquity,
and a colony of the Arcadian town of Azanis. A description of Psophis.
Taking the Peloponnesus as a whole, it occupies
a central position in the country; but in regard to Arcadia it
is on its western frontier, and is close also to the western
border-land of Achaia: its position also commands the territory
of the Eleans, with whom at that time it was politically united.
Philip reached this town on the third day after leaving C
His Birth and Education
Philopoemen, then, to begin with, was of good birth,
Birth, parentage, and education of Philopoemen b. B.C. 252
descended from one of the noblest families
in Arcadia. He was also educated under that
most distinguished Mantinean, Cleander, who
had been his father's friend before, and happened
at that time to be in exile. When he came to man's estate he
attached himself to Ecdemus and Demophanes, who were by
birth natives of Megalopolis, but who having been exiled by the
tyrant, and having associated with the philosopher Arcesilaus
during their exile, not only set their own country free by
entering into an intrigue against Aristodemus the tyrant, but
also helped in conjunction with Aratus to put down Nicocles,
the tyrant of Sicyon. On another occasion also, on the invitation of the people of Cyrene, they stood forward as their
champions and preserved their freedom for them. Such were
the men with whom he passed his early life; and he at once began
to show a sup