Online Encyclopedia

Search over 40,000 articles from the original, classic Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th Edition.

PERDICCAS

Online Encyclopedia
Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 137 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
» Make a correction to this article.
» Add information or comments to this article.
Spread the word: del.icio.us del.icio.us it!

PERDICCAS , the name of three See also:

kings of See also:Macedonia, who returned to the marine subjects which he knew and loved best. reigned respectively c. 700 B.C., c. 454—413 B.C., and 364—359 Again, in Penas arriba (1895), the love of See also:country See also:life is mani-B.C., and of one of See also:Alexander the See also:Great's generals, son of See also:Orontes, fested in the masterly contrast between the healthy, moral a descendant of the See also:independent princes of the See also:province of labour of the See also:fields and the corrupt, squalid life of cities. Orestis. The last named distinguished himself at the See also:conquest See also:Pereda's fame was now established; the statutes of the See also:Spanish of See also:Thebes (335 B.C.), and held an important command in the See also:Academy, which require members to reside at See also:Madrid, were See also:Indian See also:campaigns of Alexander. In the See also:settlement made after suspended in his favour (1896). But his See also:literary career was Alexander's See also:death (323) it was finally agreed that See also:Philip Arrhi- over. The tragic death of his eldest son, the disastrous camdaeus, an insane son of the great Philip, and See also:Roxana's unborn paign in See also:Cuba and the Philippines, darkened his closing years, See also:child (if a son) should be recognized as See also:joint kings, Perdiccas 1 and his See also:health failed See also:long before his death at Polanco on the being appointed, according to one See also:account, See also:guardian and See also:regent, 1st of See also:March 1906. according to another, chiliarch under Craterus. He soon showed Pereda belongs to the native realistic school of See also:Spain, which. himself intolerant of any rivals, and acting in the name of the founded by the unknown author of Lazarillo de Tormes, was two kings (for Roxana gave See also:birth to a son, Alexander IV) continued by Meteo See also:Aleman, Cervantes, Quevedo, See also:Castillo sought to hold the See also:empire together under his own See also:hand. His Sol6rzano and many others. With the single exception of most loyal supporter was See also:Eumenes, See also:governor of See also:Cappadocia Cervantes, however, the See also:picaresque writers are almost entirely and See also:Paphlagonia.

These provinces had not yet been conquered wanting in the spirit of generous sympathy and tenderness by the Macedonians, and Antigonus (governor of See also:

Phrygia, which constitutes a great See also:part of Pereda's See also:charm. His See also:realism See also:Lycia and See also:Pamphylia) refused to undertake the task at the is purely Spanish, as remote from See also:Zola's moroseness as from command of Perdiccas. Having been summoned to the royal the graceful sentimentality of See also:Pierre See also:Loti. Few 19th-See also:century presence to stand his trial for disobedience, Antigonus fled to writers possessed the virile temperament of Pereda, and, with See also:Europe and entered into See also:alliance with See also:Antipater, Craterus and the single exception of See also:Tolstoy, none kept a moral end more See also:Ptolemy, the son of Lagus. Perdiccas, leaving the See also:war in See also:Asia steadily in view. This didactic tendency unquestionably See also:Minor to Eumenes, marched to attack Ptolemy in See also:Egypt. He injures his effects. Moreover, his grim See also:satire occasionally reached See also:Pelusium, but failed to See also:cross the See also:Nile. A See also:mutiny degenerates into somewhat truculent See also:caricature, and the excesbroke out amongst the troops, disheartened by failure and I sive use of See also:dialect and technical terms (which caused him to exasperated by his severity, and Perdiccas was assassinated by See also:supply Sotileza with a brief vocabulary) is a See also:grave See also:artistic some of his See also:officers (321). (E. R. B.) f blemish.

End of Article: PERDICCAS

Additional information and Comments

There are no comments yet for this article.
» Add information or comments to this article.
Please link directly to this article:
Highlight the code below, right click, and select "copy." Then paste it into your website, email, or other HTML.
Site content, images, and layout Copyright © 2006 - Net Industries, worldwide.
Do not copy, download, transfer, or otherwise replicate the site content in whole or in part.

Links to articles and home page are always encouraged.

[back]
PERCY, THOMAS (c. 156o-16os) 		[next]
PEREDA, JOSE MARIA DE (1833—1906)

Site © 2006 - Net Industries