Macedon
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Hephaestion
Hephaestion (c.357-324): Macedonian nobleman, closest friend and lover of king Alexander the Great. During the expedition against Persia, he served sometimes as a military commander, but he was probably a better organizer.Youth …Hephaestion (2)
Hephaestion With Perdiccas, Hephaestion led an army along the river Kabul and across the Khyber pass into the Punjab (Spring 326).…
Herculaneum, Villa of the Papyri, Demetrius I Poliorcetes |
Herodotus on the Macedonian royal House
The Macedonian "sun" In the eighth book of Herodotus' Histories, he tells about the ancestors of the Macedonian king Alexander I…Issus (333 BCE)
Battle of Issus (5 or 6 November 333 BCE): famous battle during the war between Macedonia and the Persian Empire. The Macedonian king Alexander the Great defeated Darius III Codomannus, won Phoenicia and Egypt, and destroyed the Persian army.Context …Jaxartes (329 BCE)
Battle of the Jaxartes (August 329 BCE): battle between the Macedonian king Alexander the Great and an army of Central-Asian mounted nomads. It was arguably Alexander's most spectacular battle.Prelude …Kampyr Tepe
Kampyr Tepe: Macedonian town in Bactria, just north of the river Oxus, founded by Alexander the Great.Founding The houses of Kampyr…Kavala, Archaeological Museum
Archaeological museum with finds from Kavala and surroundings. There are 5 items in Kavala, Archaeological Museum: …Lade (334 BCE)
Lade: former island northwest of Miletus, site of two naval engagements, one in 494 BCE and one in 334 BCE (the subject of this page). …Lamian War
Lamian War: the anti-Macedonian insurrection of the Greek city states after the death of Alexander the Great (323/322).In the final years of Alexander, he had intervened in the domestic policies of the Greek city states, for example by demanding divine…Leonnatus
Leonnatus (356-322): one of the officers of Alexander the Great, saved his king's life in India and played a minor role in the wars of the Diadochi.Leonnatus was the son of Anteas, a member of the royal house of Lyncestis,…Lucian on Alexander's wedding
Sodoma's Wedding of Alexander and Roxane In 327, Alexander the Great married the daughter of the Bactrian nobleman Oxyartes, Roxane. No…