Genesis Rabbah is a commentary on the Biblical book of Genesis, and has the form of a collection of rabbinical stories and fairy tales. It was written at the end of the fourth century CE. One of the stories (to…
Alexander I the Philhellene: king of Macedonia (r. c.498-454 BCE).Towards the end of the sixth century BCE, Macedonia consisted of several principalities, which can be divided into two groups. The Macedonians of the plain probably spoke Northwest Greek and worshipped…
Alexander II Zabinas: name of a king of the Seleucid Empire, ruled from 129 to 123.Relatives:
Father: Perhaps Alexander I Balas
Main deeds:
November 132: Outbreak of civil war in Egypt between Ptolemy VIII Euergetes Physcon and his sister Cleopatra II
128: the Seleucid…
Alexander the Great (*356; r. 336-323): the Macedonian king who defeated his Persian colleague Darius III Codomannus and conquered the Achaemenid Empire. During his campaigns, Alexander visited a.o. Egypt, Babylonia, Persis, Media, Bactria, the Punjab, and the valley of the…
Biography
Youth
Greece
Asia Minor
Halicarnassus
Anatolia
Issus
The Levant
Egypt
Gaugamela and Babylon
The End of Persia
King of Asia
Sogdia
The Punjab
The Return
Lord of All
Death in Babylon
Civil War
The Fourth Beast
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Chronology
Topography
Chronology of Alexander's reign
336
Spring
Parmenion leads vanguard into Asia
Summer
Murder of Artaxerxes IV; accession of Darius III
October
Murder of Philip (text); accession of Alexander
Nov-Dec.
Alexander gains support of the Greek towns
335
Summer
Alexander campaigns in the Balkans
Memnon's counterattack in Asia
12? Sept.
Fall of Thebes (text)
Nov-Dec.
Festivals at Dion…
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Short biography
Chronology of Alexander' reign
Life of Alexander 1: Youth (356-336)
Plutarch on the birth of Alexander
Plutarch on Bucephalus
Plutarch on Alexander and the Persian envoys
Plutarch on Aristotle and Alexander
Aristotle on Persian court life
Diodorus on the battle of Chaeronea
The Corinthian League
Diodorus on…
Alexander the Great (*356; r. 336-323): the Macedonian king who defeated his Persian colleague Darius III Codomannus and conquered the Achaemenid Empire. During his campaigns, Alexander visited a.o. Egypt, Babylonia, Persis, Media, Bactria, the Punjab, and the valley of the Indus. In the second half of his reign, he had to find a…
Alexandria: town founded by Alexander the Great, capital of the Ptolemaic Empire.Hellenistic History
Alexander the Great as founder of Alexandria
The site…