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Pelion (Greece) (search for this): book 8, chapter 11
Greece (Greece) (search for this): book 8, chapter 11
Europe (search for this): book 8, chapter 11
Criticism Of Theopompus
I do not know any one who deserves more blame in
The extravagance of Theopompus's account of Philip II.
this particular than Theopompus. In the beginning of his history of Philip he said that what
chiefly induced him to undertake it was the fact
that Europe had never produced such a man as
Philip son of Amyntas; and then immediately afterwards, both
in his preface and in the whole course of his history, he
represents this king as so madly addicted to women, that he
did all that in him lay to ruin his own family by this inordinate
passion; as having behaved with the grossest unfairness and
perfidy to his friends and allies; as having enslaved and
treacherously seized a vast number of towns by force or fraud;
and as having been besides so violently addicted to strong
drink, that he was often seen by his friends drunk in open day.
But if any one will take the trouble to read the opening
passage of his forty-ninth book, he would be indeed astonished
at this writer
Macedonia (Macedonia) (search for this): book 8, chapter 11
376 BC - 372 BC (search for this): book 8, chapter 11