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THE "Boys' Foot-race" at the great games of Olympia, celebrated now for the one hundred and eleventh time since the epoch of Coroebus, has just been run, and the victor is about to receive his crown of wild olive. The herald proclaims with a loud voice, "Charidemus, son of Callicles of Argos, come forward, and receive your prize!" A lad, who might have been thought to number seventeen or eighteen summers, so tall and well grown was he, but who had really only just completed his fifteenth year, stepped forward. His face was less regularly handsome than those of the very finest Greek type, for the nose was more arched, the chin more strongly marked, and the forehead more square, than a sculptor would have made them in molding a boy Apollo; still the young Charidemus had a singularly winning appearance especially now that a smile shone out of his frank blue eyes and parted lips, lips that were neither so full as to be sensual, nor so thin. as to be cruel. The dark chestnut curls fell clustering about his neck, for the Greek boy was not cropped in the terrier fashion of his English successor and the ruddy brown of his clear complexion showed a health nurtured by clean living and exercise. A hum of applause greeted the young athlete, for he had many friends among the young and old of Argos, and he was remarkable for the worth that "appears with brighter shine When lodged within a worthy shrine," ("gratior et pulchro veniens in corpore virtus") a charm which commends itself greatly to the multitude. As Charidemus approached the judges a lad stepped forward from the throng that surrounded the tribunal, and exclaimed, "I object." All eyes were turned upon the speaker. He was immediately recognized as the competitor who had won the second place, a good runner, who might have hoped for victory in ordinary years, but who had had no chance against the extraordinary fleetness of the young Argive. He was of a well-set, sturdy figure; his face, without being at all handsome, was sufficiently pleasing, though just at the moment it had a look which might have meant either sullenness or shame. "Who is it that speaks" said the presiding judge "Charondas, son of Megasthenes, of Thebes;" was the answer. "And what is your objection" asked the judge. "I object to Charidemus, alleged to be of Argos, because he is a barbarian." The sensation produced by these words was great, even startling. There could scarcely be a greater insult than to say to any one who claimed to be a Greek that he was a barbarian. Greeks, according to a creed that no one thought of questioning, were the born rulers and masters of the world, for whom everything had been made, and to whom everything belonged; barbarians were inferior creatures, without human rights, who might be permitted to exist if they were content to minister to the well-being of their masters, but otherwise were to be dealt with as so many noxious beasts. An angry flush mounted to the young runner's face. A fierce light flashed from his eyes, lately so smiling, and the red lips were set firmly together. He had now the look of one who could make himself feared as well as loved. His friends were loud in their expressions of wrath. With an emphatic gesture of his hand the judge commanded silence. "Justify your words," he said to the Theban lad. For a few a rely moments Charondas stood silent. Then he turned to the crowd, as if looking for inspiration or help. A man of middle age stepped forward and addressed the judge. "Permit me, sir, on behalf of my son, whose youth and modesty hinder him from speaking freely in your august presence, to make a statement of facts." "Speak on," said the judge, "but say nothing that you cannot prove. Such charges as that which we have just heard may not be lightly brought." "I allege that Charidemus, said to be of Argos, is not in truth the son of Callicles, but is by birth a Macedonian." Alexander the Great - Livius Alexander the Great (*356; r 336-323): the Macedonian king who defeated his Persian colleague Darius III Codomannus and conquered the Achaemenid Empire Philip of Macedon Philip II of Macedonia Biography In 356 the Macedonian army advanced further eastward and captured the town of Crenides (near modern Drama) which was in the hands of the Alexander the Great Biography - family children parents One of Alexander's first teachers was Leonidas a relative of Olympias who struggled to control the defiant boy Philip hired Leonidas to train the youth in math Ancient Macedonian army - Wikipedia Ancient Macedonian army; Participant in Rise of Macedon Alexander's Balkan campaign the Wars of Alexander the Great Alexander the Great - Wikipedia Alexander the Great; Basileus of Macedon Hegemon of the Hellenic League Shahanshah of Persia Pharaoh of Egypt Lord of Asia Alexander the Great - King - Biographycom Alexander the Great served as king of Macedonia from 336 to 323 BC During his time of leadership he united Greece reestablished the Corinthian League and Alexander the Great (Alexander of Macedon) Biography Alexander the Great Alexander of Macedon Biography King of Macedonia and Conqueror of the Persian Empire Alexander III the Great the King The Army of Alexander the Great (Article) - Ancient A Disciplined & Organized Army When Philip II became king of Macedonia in 359 BCE he inherited an army that was relatively ineffective He immediately initiated a ALEXANDER THE GREAT Project by JJP Alexander conquered much of what was then the civilized world governed by his divine ambition of the world conquest and creation of universal world monarchy Alexander the Great and the Hellenistic Age Watching the Battle of Leuctra and learning Theban tactics was a young man from Macedonia name Philip Philip was a hostage in Thebes as Thebes controlled Macedonia
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