Dio Cocceianus of Prusa (c. 40 - after 112; also known as Chrysostom, "goldvoice"): Greek politician and philosopher, and -by some definitions- one of the first representatives of the Second Sophistic.
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Dio Chrysostom (c.40 - after 112) was a Greek politician and philosopher, and one of the first representatives of the Second Sophistic. In 111, he was accused of lèse-majesté. As it happens, the governor who preseded this trial was Pliny…
Diodorus of Sicily: Greek historian, author of the Library of World History. His activities can be dated between 60 and 30 BCE.In May 334, Alexander the Great invaded Asia with a large army - larger, for example, than the army…
Tyre (Phoenician רצ, ṣūr, "rock"; Greek Τύρος; Latin Tyrus): port in Phoenicia and one of the main cities in the eastern Mediterranean.In the winter of 320/319, Ptolemy captured Tyre: a violation of the Triparadisus agreement. Antigonus the One-Eyed, who ought to have been in control…
Diodorus of Sicily: Greek historian, author of the Library of World History. His activities can be dated between 60 and 30 BCE.In the first weeks of 325, Alexander was almost mortally wounded, the Greek settlers in Sogdia revolted, and the way back…
Diodorus of Sicily: Greek historian, author of the Library of World History. His activities can be dated between 60 and 30 BCE.In November 333, Alexander the Great and his trusted general Parmenion defeated the Persian king Darius III Codomannus on the uneven…
Diodorus of Sicily: Greek historian, author of the Library of World History. His activities can be dated between 60 and 30 BCE.In April 323, Alexander the Great entered Babylon. The Chaldaeans, i.e., the famous astrologers working in the Esagila temple complex, came…
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…