In c.312 BCE, king Antigonus I Monophthalmus tried to subdue the Nabataeans. Several officers were involved, like Athenaeus, the king's son Demetrius, and Hieronymus of Cardia, a historian. His account of the events was excerpted by the Greek historian Diodorus…
After the death of Alexander the Great, the Greek veterans that he had settled in punitive colonies in the eastern satrapies, decided to leave their towns and go back to Europe. Perdiccas, the regent appointed for Alexander's successor Philip Arridaeus,…
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…
In 410-405, Carthage waged war against the Greeks of Sicily and was able to conquer several cities: Selinus, Himera, Acragas, and Gela. An epidemic in their army prevented them from advancing to Syracuse, where Dionysius became tyrant. He and the…
In 305, Antigonus Monophthalmus, one of the Diadochi (successors of Alexander the Great), sent out his son Demetrius to capture the city and island of Rhodes. It controlled the entrance to the Aegean Sea, and its capture was necessary if…
Epic Cycle (᾽Επικὸς κύκλος): set of twelve archaic epic poems, known to every educated Greek. The best-known were Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, which are also the only epics that have survived.
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