Cassander

Nor like Melanus, who, though opposed politically to Callistratus, was often brought over by him, and then would say to the people, The man is my enemy, it is true, but the interests of the city shall prevail.

Nor like Nicodemus the Mycenaean, who first attached himself to Cassander, and then again advocated the interests of Demetrius, but said that he was not contradicting himself, for it was already advantageous to listen to one's masters.

We cannot say that such things of Demosthenes also, as of one who is turned from his course, and veers to and fro either in word or deed.

Nay, he followed one unchangeable scale, as it were, and ever held to one key in politics.

He had been obnoxious to them even before this, but now fell under a charge from which there was no escape.

A letter of his, namely, leaked out, in which he had urged Perdiccas to seize Macedonia and deliver the Greeks who, he said, were fastened to it only by an old and rotten thread, meaning Antipater.

And when Deinarchus the Corinthian denounced him for this, Cassander flew into a rage and slew the son of Demades as he stood close by his father's side, and then ordered that Demades should be likewise killed.

Demades was now learning amid his extremist misfortunes that traitors sell themselves first, a truth of which Demosthenes had often assured him, but which he would not believe.

According to others, 300,000.

And by Cassander, it was taken to be 360,000 years.

We learn particularly from the Timaeus of Plato that the Egyptians believed the world to be subject to occasional conflagrations and deluges, whereby the gods arrested the career of human wickedness and purified the earth from guilt.

After each regeneration, mankind were in a state of virtue and happiness, from which they gradually degenerated again into vice and immorality.

Nor like Milonopus, who, though opposed politically to Callistratus, was often brought over by him, and then would say to the people, The man is my enemy, it is true, but the interests of the city shall prevail.

Nor like Nicodemus the Mycenaean, who first attached himself to Cassander, and then again advocated the interests of Demetrius, but said that he was not contradicting himself, for it was already advantageous to listen to one's masters.

We cannot say that such things of Demosthenes also, as of one who is turned from his course, and veers to and fro either in word or deed.

Nay, he followed one unchangeable scale, as it were, and ever held to one key in politics.

He had been obnoxious to them even before this, but now fell under a charge from which there was no escape.

A letter of his, namely, leaked out, in which he had urged Perdiccas to seize Macedonia and deliver the Greeks who, he said, were fastened to it only by an old and rotten thread, meaning Antipater.

And when Deinarchus the Corinthian denounced him for this, Cassander flew into a rage and slew the son of Demades as he stood close by his father's side, and then ordered that Demades should be likewise killed.

Demades was now learning amid his extremist misfortunes that traitors sell themselves first, a truth of which Demosthenes had often assured him, but which he would not believe.

Era algo parecido a un internado.

Alejandro estudió allí con otros jóvenes nobles macedonios, entre ellos Ptolomeo, Hephaestion y Cassandro.

No eran simplemente compañeros de clase.

Se convertirían en sus amigos más cercanos y en sus futuros generales.

city of that region.

In 315, it was founded by Cassander of Macedon, one of Alexander the Great's generals.

If you remember Cassandra, Lysimachus, Ptolemy, and Seleucus, those were the four generals that took over after Alexander the Great died.

But Cassander founded the city, named it after his wife, Thessaloniki, which is Alexander the Great's half-sister.

So there's kind of an interesting history there.

But it's the second largest and wealthiest city of the Byzantine Empire.

Their wives were sisters, too, and Hephaestion would become his second in command during their campaigns.

Yet another important figure of Alexander's generation was Cassander, who would reign over Macedon for twenty years after Alexander's death.

And there were other young nobles educated around Alexander at Mieza, where Aristotle's school worked almost like a kind of boarding school for the Macedonian elite.

Alexander is taught about many fields: philosophy, history, morals, logic, medicine, art, as well as mythology and literature.

It is, however, difficult to say to what extent friendliness and an approachable manner of conversation will win over men's hearts.

We have the letters which Philip wrote to Alexander, which Antipater wrote to Cassander, and which Antigonus wrote to his son Philip.

The letters of three of the most sensible of men, for that is what we are told.

In these, they give the advice to woo the hearts of the crowds to goodwill with friendly talk and to soothe their soldiers in conversation by gently beseeching them.