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Alcibiades
Alcibiades (450-404/403): Athenian politician who played an important role in the Peloponnesian War. Alcibiades Alcibiades, the son of Cleinias and an Alcmeonid…
Alcibiades |
Alcmeonids
Alcmeonids (Greek Ἀλκμαιωνίδαι): noble family from Athens. Delphi, Alcmeonid temple of Apollo, Western acroterion The Alcmeonids were a wealthy, aristocratic ("Eupatrid") family in…Alexander of Molossis
Alexander (c.370-331): king of Molossis (350-331), uncle of Alexander the Great, best known for his invasion of Italy in 334. Map…
Alexander the Great, coin by Lysimachus |
Alexander the Great: Chronology
Chronology of Alexander's reign 336 Spring Parmenion leads vanguard into Asia Summer Murder of Artaxerxes IV; accession of Darius III October Murder of Philip (text); accession of Alexander Nov-Dec. Alexander gains support of the Greek towns 335 Summer Alexander campaigns in the Balkans Memnon's counterattack in Asia 12? Sept. Fall of Thebes (text) Nov-Dec. Festivals at Dion…Alexander's City Foundations
Alexander Alexander's biographer Plutarch of Chaeronea states that Alexander the Great founded no less than seventy towns, which were important centers…Alexander's Letter to the Chians
Alexander's Letter to the Chians: letter by the Macedonian king Alexander the Great to the people of the isle of Chios, evidence of his interference in the internal affairs of his allies. …
Alexandria, Serapeum, Sphinx of Horemheb |
Alexandrupolis
Alexandrupolis ("Alexander town"): first town founded by Alexander the Great. The Strymon, between Sandanski and Blagoevgrad According to Plutarchnote[Plutarch, Life of Alexander,…Almyros, Archaeological Museum
In the late 1980s, I was working at the excavation of Hellenistic Halos, a heavily fortified port in southeastern Thessaly. Although I soon discovered that I lacked the qualities to be a good archaeologist, I usually enjoyed my work and…Amazons
Amazons (Greek Ἀμαζόνες): in Greek myth, a foreign nation of female warriors.Foreign Female Fighters Achilles kills Penthesileia, shown on the Mausoleum of…