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PHILIP V. AT ATHENS.
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(Ionian inflictions was the siege of Athens by Philip V. in B.C. 200.
He repulsed a sally of the Athenians from the Dipylon, hut was unable
to take the city by assault; and as the Athenians were now aided by
the Eomans, who had begun to play a part in the affairs of Greece,
Philip was obliged to retreat, and pitched his camp at Cynosarges.
Hence he wreaked his vengeance on the surrounding suburbs, destroying
not only Cynosarges with its templs of Hercules, its gymnasium, and
sacred groves, but the Lyceium also, and every pleasant or holy place
around the city, sparing neither the buildings nor even the tombs.
But after an unsuccessful attempt on Eleusis he retreated to Megara,
and thence to Corinth.1
During the struggle with the Macedonians, the Athenians were
probably assisted with money by some of the Eastern princes. "We
know, at all events, of several who aided in embellishing their city,
and on whom they lavished the tokens of their adulation. One of the
Ptolemies, most probably Philadelphia, built near the Theseium, about
b.c. 260, the gymnasium which bore his name; and in return for his
benefactions the Athenians changed the name of the tribe Antigonis to
that of Ptolemai's.2 Attalus I., king of Pergamus, who formed an
alliance with the Athenians against Philip, visited Athens in b.c. 200.
He was received with the most striking demonstrations of popular good-
will and reverence. As he approached the city from Peiraeeus not
only the magistrates and knights, but also all the citizens with their
wives and children went forth to meet him. When he entered the
Dipylon, which gate was probably selected as being the noblest entrance
of Athens, all the priests and priestesses ranged themselves on each
hand, every temple was open, and at all the altars stood victims ready
for the sacrifices which he was entreated to perform. He showed him-
self a still more liberal benefactor than Ptolemy. He adorned Athens
with a stoa, long known only from the mention of it by Atheneeus
(v. 50), situated on the north-east side of the agora, as the discovery of
the architrave and inscription within the last few years has proved.
Its remains had previously been assigned to the gymnasium of Ptolemy.
1 Liv. xxxi. 24 sq.
30.
2 Piuisan. i, 17, 2; Cic. de Fin. v. 1.
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(Ionian inflictions was the siege of Athens by Philip V. in B.C. 200.
He repulsed a sally of the Athenians from the Dipylon, hut was unable
to take the city by assault; and as the Athenians were now aided by
the Eomans, who had begun to play a part in the affairs of Greece,
Philip was obliged to retreat, and pitched his camp at Cynosarges.
Hence he wreaked his vengeance on the surrounding suburbs, destroying
not only Cynosarges with its templs of Hercules, its gymnasium, and
sacred groves, but the Lyceium also, and every pleasant or holy place
around the city, sparing neither the buildings nor even the tombs.
But after an unsuccessful attempt on Eleusis he retreated to Megara,
and thence to Corinth.1
During the struggle with the Macedonians, the Athenians were
probably assisted with money by some of the Eastern princes. "We
know, at all events, of several who aided in embellishing their city,
and on whom they lavished the tokens of their adulation. One of the
Ptolemies, most probably Philadelphia, built near the Theseium, about
b.c. 260, the gymnasium which bore his name; and in return for his
benefactions the Athenians changed the name of the tribe Antigonis to
that of Ptolemai's.2 Attalus I., king of Pergamus, who formed an
alliance with the Athenians against Philip, visited Athens in b.c. 200.
He was received with the most striking demonstrations of popular good-
will and reverence. As he approached the city from Peiraeeus not
only the magistrates and knights, but also all the citizens with their
wives and children went forth to meet him. When he entered the
Dipylon, which gate was probably selected as being the noblest entrance
of Athens, all the priests and priestesses ranged themselves on each
hand, every temple was open, and at all the altars stood victims ready
for the sacrifices which he was entreated to perform. He showed him-
self a still more liberal benefactor than Ptolemy. He adorned Athens
with a stoa, long known only from the mention of it by Atheneeus
(v. 50), situated on the north-east side of the agora, as the discovery of
the architrave and inscription within the last few years has proved.
Its remains had previously been assigned to the gymnasium of Ptolemy.
1 Liv. xxxi. 24 sq.
30.
2 Piuisan. i, 17, 2; Cic. de Fin. v. 1.