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INVESTIGATIONS AT ASSOS, 1881. 73
to Artaxerxes. Assos again passed into the hands of the
Persians without a struggle.
The state had preserved a partial independence for six dec-
ades, and was not long to remain under the rapidly declining
power of the Barbarians. At the time of the fall of Hermeias,
Alexander the Great was of age to receive the instruction of
the fugitive Aristotle. Only eleven years afterwards all Mysia
was freed by the battle of the Granicus (334 b. .c). From
Arrian we learn of the Hellenic reorganization of Phrygia
upon the Hellespont after the astounding successes of the
conqueror. But the varying political fortunes of the province
need not be here recounted, as it passed from hand to hand
during the disturbed period of the Diadochi.
Of more concern in the history of Assos was the occupa-
tion of the Troad by the Gauls. The fertile valleys of the
Scamander and Satnioeis were separated only by the narrow
Hellespont and the easily navigable Thracian Sea from these
barbarous tribes, who established themselves in the Cherso-
nesus and Macedonia after the death of Alexander. The
Troad was exposed to the special ravages of the Trocmae,
who for a time settled upon the Acropolis of the later Ilion.
The repulse of the Gauls was due to the rising state of
Pergamon, to which Assos was united in the year 241 b. c.
Eumenes and Attalus, refusing tribute, drove the wild tribes to
the coasts of the Hellespont, where they continued their rav-
ages until expelled from Ilion by the inhabitants of Alexan-
dria Troas, and finally defeated in a pitched battle near Arisbe
(216 B.C.), after having occupied the land for more than sixty
years.
Sharing the fate of the powerful monarchy of Pergamon,
upon which so much light has lately been thrown by the
excavations at Pergamon itself, Assos passed by bequest of
Attalus III. to the sovereignty of Rome in 133 b. c. It was
to Artaxerxes. Assos again passed into the hands of the
Persians without a struggle.
The state had preserved a partial independence for six dec-
ades, and was not long to remain under the rapidly declining
power of the Barbarians. At the time of the fall of Hermeias,
Alexander the Great was of age to receive the instruction of
the fugitive Aristotle. Only eleven years afterwards all Mysia
was freed by the battle of the Granicus (334 b. .c). From
Arrian we learn of the Hellenic reorganization of Phrygia
upon the Hellespont after the astounding successes of the
conqueror. But the varying political fortunes of the province
need not be here recounted, as it passed from hand to hand
during the disturbed period of the Diadochi.
Of more concern in the history of Assos was the occupa-
tion of the Troad by the Gauls. The fertile valleys of the
Scamander and Satnioeis were separated only by the narrow
Hellespont and the easily navigable Thracian Sea from these
barbarous tribes, who established themselves in the Cherso-
nesus and Macedonia after the death of Alexander. The
Troad was exposed to the special ravages of the Trocmae,
who for a time settled upon the Acropolis of the later Ilion.
The repulse of the Gauls was due to the rising state of
Pergamon, to which Assos was united in the year 241 b. c.
Eumenes and Attalus, refusing tribute, drove the wild tribes to
the coasts of the Hellespont, where they continued their rav-
ages until expelled from Ilion by the inhabitants of Alexan-
dria Troas, and finally defeated in a pitched battle near Arisbe
(216 B.C.), after having occupied the land for more than sixty
years.
Sharing the fate of the powerful monarchy of Pergamon,
upon which so much light has lately been thrown by the
excavations at Pergamon itself, Assos passed by bequest of
Attalus III. to the sovereignty of Rome in 133 b. c. It was