Macedon
There are 337 items in Macedon:
Diodorus on the death of Philip Arridaeus
After the death of Alexander the Great, his slow-minded brother Philip Arridaeus became king; a general named Perdiccas was made regent (323-320), and later succeeded by Antipater (320-319) and Polyperchon. King Philip was married to Eurydice, who tried to prevent…Diodorus on the end of the Argeads
Alexander IV In 311, the Diadochi concluded a peace treaty. Ptolemy and Lysimachus were confirmed in their territories, Egypt and Thrace;…Diodorus on the sack of Persepolis
Diodorus of Sicily: Greek historian, author of the Library of World History. His activities can be dated between 60 and 30 BCE.In January 330, Alexander reached Persepolis, the capital of the Achaemenid Empire. Three months later he destroyed several buildings of the…Diodorus on the sack of Thebes
Diodorus of Sicily: Greek historian, author of the Library of World History. His activities can be dated between 60 and 30 BCE. The…Eratosthenes on Alexander
The Alexandrinian scientist Eratosthenes of Cyrene published his topographical studies in the third century BCE. They are now lost, but the geographer Strabo of Amasia quotes their conclusion in his Geography: Alexander was responsible for a new opinion about civilization…Erigyius
Erigyius (†328/327 BCE): Macedonian officer of Greek descent, personal friend of Alexander the Great. Panorama of Amphipolis Erigyius' father Larichus was born…Eurydice
Eurydice (c.335-c.285): Macedonian lady, wife of Ptolemy Soter.Relatives: Father: Antipater Husband: Ptolemy I Soter Children: Ptolemy Keraunos, Meleager, Lysandra (married to Agathocles, son of Lysimachus), Ptolemais (married to Demetrius Poliorcetes). Main deeds: c.335: Born as daughter of Antipater, the governor of Macedonia during the reign of…
Family tree of the Argeads |
Gaugamela (331 BCE)
Battle of Gaugamela (October 1, 331 BCE): decisive battle in the war between Macedonia and the Achaemenid Empire, fought in northern Iraq. The outcome was influenced by a celestial omen that announced the imminent downfall of the Persian king Darius…
Giannitsa, Portrait of Alexander the Great |
Granicus (334 BCE)
Granicus (Greek Γρανíκος; Turkish Biga Çayi): little river in northwestern Turkey, place where the Macedonian king Alexander the Great defeated the Persian general Memnon of Rhodes, in the spring of 334 BCE. …Halicarnassus (334 BCE)
Halicarnassus (Greek Ἁλικαρνασσός): Greek-Carian city, modern Bodrum in southwestern Turkey. Myndus Gate Halicarnassus (modern Bodrum) had been fortified in the mid-fourth century…