Ammon: name of a Libyan deity and his oracle in an oasis in Egypt's western desert. It became famous after Alexander the Great made a detour to consult the god. The modern name of the oasis is Siwa.
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Amorges: son of Pissuthnes, satrap of Lydia, continued his father's revolt against the Achaemenid king Darius II Nothus.Pissuthnes had been the satrap of Lydia for at least two decades when he decided to revolt against king Darius II Nothus in…
Our main source for the history of the Peloponnesian War is the Athenian author Thucydides, but he sometimes makes mistakes. One of these is a blind eye for Persian influence on the war. As a consequence, he underestimated the importance…
Amyrtaeus: only pharaoh of the twenty-eighth dynasty, revolted against the Persians in 404. He was still establishing his power when he died in 398.Context
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Messiah (mâšîah, "the anointed one"): Jewish religious concept, a future savior who will, in some sense, come to restore Israel. The nature of both the Messiah and the restoration was a matter of debate, and there were several claimants.An unnamed prophet (c.59 CE)
Source: Flavius Josephus,…
Ananeosis (Greek Ἀνανέωσις, "renewal" or "rebirth"): the reorganizing of the Cyrenaica during the reign of the Byzantine emperor Justinian.
Qasr Libya,…
Anastasius I: emperor of the East-Roman (Byzantine) empire (491-518).
Anastasius I
Names:
c.431: Flavius Anastasius
11 April 491: Augustus Anastasius
1 July 518: natural death
Successor…
Andesina: town of the Gallic Leuci, major sanctuary of Apollo Grannus, modern Grand.City of Grannus
Apollo Grannus
Grand, ancient Andesina, is situated on a limestone plateau.…