Hellenistic
There are 1575 items in Hellenistic:
Caesarea-Mazaca (Kayseri)
Caesarea-Mazaca: ancient town in central Anatolia, modern Kayseri.History Hellenistic relief of a soldier Cappadocia Settled in the Bronze Age, named Mazaka in Hattic,…
Caesarion |
Callimachus
Callimachus (first half third century BCE): Greek poet and scholar, born in Cyrene, living in Alexandria. Ptolemy II Philadelphus. Bust from…Capernaum
Capernaum: town on the northern shore of Lake Galilee.Capernaum Capernaum's Synagogue Allready occupied in the thirteenth century BCE Meaning of the name: Village…Cappadocia (2)
Cappadocia: ancient name for the country between the rivers Halys and Euphrates, today central Turkey.Hellenistic Age One of Cappadocia's bizarre rocks After…Caria
Caria: the southwest of modern Turkey, incorporated in c.545 BCE the ancient Achaemenid empire as the satrapy Karkâ. Its capital was Halicarnassus (modern Bodrum).Early history …Carian War (280-279; First Syrian War)
Syrian Wars: series of conflicts between the Seleucid and Ptolemaic empires in the third and second centuries BCE; at stake was an area called Coele Syria, which is more or less identical to modern Israel, the Palestine territories, Lebanon, and…
Carthage, Salammbo, Incense burner in the shape of Baal-Hammon ("the fiery Baal") |
Cartouches of Ptolemy I Soter |
Cassander
Cassander (Greek: Κάσσανδρος): one of the successors of Alexander the Great, king of Macedonia from 306 to 298. Coin of Cassander Cassander was born…
Cassandria, Inscription of Philip V |
Catabathmus
Catabathmus (Greek Καταβαθμός, "descent"): cape and frontier town between Ptolemaic Egypt and Cyrenaica, modern Salum, also known as Hellfire Pass. Catabathmus Catabathmus was…