Hellenistic
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Pharnaces I of Pontus
Pharnaces I: king of Pontus (r.185-160 BCE).Pharnaces succeeded his father Mithridates III in c.185 BCE and captured Sinope in 183 BCE. This was the beginning of what was called the "Pontic War", in which the kingdom of Pontus had to face…Pharnaces II of Pontus
Pharnaces II: king of Pontus (r.63-47 BCE). Zela Pharnaces was the son of Mithridates VI Eupator, the king of Pontus who fought…Pharsalus
Pharsalus: Greek town in Thessaly, well-known for the famous battle in 48 BCE in which the Roman general Julius Caesar defeated his opponent Pompey the Great. …Phila I
Phila (c.355- 288): Macedonian lady, wife of Craterus.Relatives Father: Antipater First husband: Alexander of Lyncestis Second husband: Balacrus Third husband: Craterus Son: Craterus Fourth husband: Demetrius Poliorcetes Children: Stratonice I and Antigonus Gonatas Main deeds c.355: Born as daughter of Antipater, First marriage to Alexander of Lyncestis, a Macedonian nobleman 336:…Phila II
Phila II (c.295- after 275): Seleucid princess, married to Antigonus II Gonatas.Relatives Father: Seleucus I Nicator Mother: Stratonice I Husband: Antigonus Gonatas Main deeds 276: Phila II marries Antigonus Gonatas She has a son, Demetrius IIPhiladelphia (Amman)
Philadelphia: orginal capital of the Ammonites, city in the Ptolemaic Empire, one of the towns in the Decapolis, modern Amman (Jordan).Prehistory and Iron Age …
Philadelphia, Citadel, Temple of Heracles |
Philadelphia, Tyche |
Philetaerus
Philetaerus: ruler of Pergamon (d. 263), founder of the Attalid dynasty. Philetaerus (bust from the Villa of the Papyri, Herculaneum) Relatives Father: Attalus,…
Coin of Eumenes I, showing the founder of the Attalid dynasty, Philetaerus |
Philip Arrhidaeus
Philip Arrhidaeus (c.356-317): the mentally deficient and epileptic brother of Alexander the Great who succeeded him as king of the Macedonian Empire in 323, but had several regents, who all used their pupil for their own purposes. …