Period I. From its origin to the death of Alexander the
Great, B. C. 800-323 206
Period II. History of the Macedonian monarchy, from the death
of Alexander the Great to the battle of Ipsus, B. C. 323-301 222
Period III. History of the separate kingdoms and states
which arose out of the dismemberment of the Macedonian
monarchy, after the battle of Ipsus 232
I. History of the Syrian empire under the Seleucidae
B. C. 312-64 232
II. History of the Egyptian kingdom under the Ptolemies,
B. C. 323-30 247
III. History of Macedonia itself and of Greece, from the
death of Alexander to the Roman conquest, B. C. 323-146 268
Achaean league 280
Aetolian league 279
IV. History of some smaller or more distant kingdoms
and states formed out of the Macedonian monarchy 290
The kingdom of Pergamus 291
Bithynia 293
Paphlagonia 294
Pontus 295
Cappadocia 297
Armenia 298
The kingdom of Parthia 299
The kingdom of Bactria 305
The restored kingdom of the Jews 306
1. Under the Persians 307
2. Under the Ptolemies and Seleucidae 308
3. Under the Maccabees 309
4. Under the family of Herod 311