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Antigonus II Gonatas - Antigonus against Pyrrhus.
Pyrrhus, king of Epirus, Macedonia's Western neighbour, was a general of mercurial ability, widely renowned for his bravery, but he did not apply his talents sensibly and often snatched after vain hopes, so that Antigonus used to compare him to a dice player, who had excellent throws, but did not know how to use them. When the Gauls defeated Ptolemy Ceraunus and the Macedonian throne became vacant, Pyrrhus was occupied in his campaigns overseas. Hoping to conquer ...
See also:Antigonus II Gonatas, Antigonus II Gonatas - Birth and family, Antigonus II Gonatas - Demetrius's general, Antigonus II Gonatas - In the wilderness, Antigonus II Gonatas - King of Macedonia, Antigonus II Gonatas - Antigonus against Pyrrhus, Antigonus II Gonatas - The Chremonidean war, Antigonus II Gonatas - Antigonus against Aratus, Antigonus II Gonatas - Death and Appraisal Read more here: » Antigonus II Gonatas: Encyclopedia II - Antigonus II Gonatas - King of Macedonia |
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| | | | Antigonus II Gonatas: Encyclopedia II - Seleucid Empire - The partition of Alexander's empire 323-281 BC Alexander the Great had conquered the Persian Empire within a short time-frame and died young, leaving an expansive empire of partly Hellenized culture without an adult heir. Therefore his generals (the Diadochi) thereupon jostled for supremacy over portions of his empire.
Seleucus, one of his generals, established himself in Babylon in 312 BC, used as the foundation date of the Seleucid Empire. He ruled over not only Babylonia, but the entire enormous eastern part of Alexander's Empire. Following his and Lysimachus's victory over Ant ...
See also:Seleucid Empire, Seleucid Empire - The partition of Alexander's empire 323-281 BC, Seleucid Empire - An overextended domain, Seleucid Empire - Greco-Bactrian secession 250 BC, Seleucid Empire - Parthian secession 250 BC, Seleucid Empire - Eclipse and revival, Seleucid Empire - The power of Rome and renewed disintegration, Seleucid Empire - Civil war and further decay, Seleucid Empire - Collapse of the Seleucid Empire, Seleucid Empire - Seleucid rulers, Seleucid Empire - In modern media Read more here: » Seleucid Empire: Encyclopedia II - Seleucid Empire - The partition of Alexander's empire 323-281 BC |
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| | | | Antigonus II Gonatas: Encyclopedia II - Battle of Heraclea - Background Taranto was a Greek colony, part of Magna Graecia. The leading faction in Taranto, the democrats under Philocharis or Ainesias, was against Rome, because they knew that if the Romans entered Taranto the Greeks would lose their independence. The Greeks in Taranto had grown afraid of Roman expansion after the Third Samnite War. After the surrender of the Samnites in 290 BC, the Romans founded many colonies in Apulia and Lucania, the most important of which was Venusia. In 282 BC, after a battle against the Samnites, Lucanians, Bruttians and Th ...
See also:Battle of Heraclea, Battle of Heraclea - Background, Battle of Heraclea - Preparation, Battle of Heraclea - The battle, Battle of Heraclea - Order of Battle, Battle of Heraclea - Aftermath, Battle of Heraclea - Bibliography, Battle of Heraclea - Notes Read more here: » Battle of Heraclea: Encyclopedia II - Battle of Heraclea - Background |
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| | | | Antigonus II Gonatas: Encyclopedia II - Edicts of Ashoka - Ashoka's Proselytism In order to propagate the Buddhist faith, Ashoka explains he sent emissaries to the Hellenistic kings as far as the Mediterranean, and to the peoples throughout India, claiming they were all converted to the Dharma as a result. He names the Greek rulers of the time, inheritors of the conquest of Alexander the Great, from Bactria to as far as Greece and North Africa, displaying an amazingly clear grasp of the political situation at the time.
Edicts of Ashoka - Proselytism beyond India.
"Now it is conq ...
See also:Edicts of Ashoka, Edicts of Ashoka - Ashoka's conversion, Edicts of Ashoka - Ashoka's Proselytism, Edicts of Ashoka - Proselytism beyond India, Edicts of Ashoka - Proselytism within Ashoka's territories, Edicts of Ashoka - Moral precepts, Edicts of Ashoka - Right behaviour, Edicts of Ashoka - Benevolence, Edicts of Ashoka - Kindness to prisoners, Edicts of Ashoka - Respect for animal life, Edicts of Ashoka - Religious precepts, Edicts of Ashoka - Budddhism, Edicts of Ashoka - Belief in a next world, Edicts of Ashoka - Religious exchange, Edicts of Ashoka - Social welfare, Edicts of Ashoka - Medicinal treatments, Edicts of Ashoka - Roadside facilities, Edicts of Ashoka - Officers of the faith, Edicts of Ashoka - Notes, Edicts of Ashoka - Reference Read more here: » Edicts of Ashoka: Encyclopedia II - Edicts of Ashoka - Ashoka's Proselytism |
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| | | | Antigonus II Gonatas: Encyclopedia II - Taranto - The Greek period
Taranto - Foundation and splendour.
Taranto was founded in 708 BC by Spartan immigrants. It is the only Spartan colony, and its origin is peculiar: the founders are parthenii, sons of unmarried Spartan women and perioikoi (free men, but not citizens of Sparta); these unions were decided by the Spartans to increase the number of soldiers (only the citizens of Sparta could become soldiers) during the bloody Messenian wars, but later they were nullified, and the sons were forced to leave. Phalanthus, t ...
See also:Taranto, Taranto - The Greek period, Taranto - Foundation and splendour, Taranto - Wars against Rome, Taranto - Roman and Byzantine periods, Taranto - Roman Republic and Empire, Taranto - Byzantine Longobard Arab and Norman dominations, Taranto - Principality of Taranto 1088-1465, Taranto - From Renaissance to unification, Taranto - Modern times Read more here: » Taranto: Encyclopedia II - Taranto - The Greek period |
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| | | | Antigonus II Gonatas: Encyclopedia II - Seleucid Empire - The partition of Alexander's empire 323-281 BC Alexander the Great had conquered the Persian Empire within a short time-frame and died young, leaving an expansive empire of partly Hellenized culture without adult heir. Therefore his generals (the Diadochi) thereupon jostled for supremacy over portions of his empire.
Seleucus, one of his generals, established himself in Babylon in 312 BC, used as the foundation date of the Seleucid Empire. He ruled over not only Babylonia, but the entire enormous eastern part of Alexander's Empire. Following his and Lysimachus's victory over Antigo ...
See also:Seleucid Empire, Seleucid Empire - The partition of Alexander's empire 323-281 BC, Seleucid Empire - An overextended domain, Seleucid Empire - Greco-Bactrian secession 250 BC, Seleucid Empire - Parthian secession 250 BC, Seleucid Empire - Eclipse and revival, Seleucid Empire - The power of Rome and renewed disintegration, Seleucid Empire - Civil war and further decay, Seleucid Empire - Collapse of the Seleucid Empire, Seleucid Empire - Seleucid rulers, Seleucid Empire - In modern media Read more here: » Seleucid Empire: Encyclopedia II - Seleucid Empire - The partition of Alexander's empire 323-281 BC |
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| | | | Antigonus II Gonatas: Encyclopedia II - Aratus - Writings Aratus' principal work, the Phaenomena ("Appearances"), versifies one or more works of Eudoxus of Cnidus. In 1,154 hexameters he lays bare the names and movements of the heavenly bodies, and the significance of various weather signs. Technical description is primary, but mythical digressions are frequent. The second half, on weather signs, has sometimes circulated under the title Diosemeia ("Signs from Zeus"), but was not originally separate.
Aratus also wrote a number of other poems, many of a ...
See also:Aratus, Aratus - Biography, Aratus - Writings, Aratus - Later influence Read more here: » Aratus: Encyclopedia II - Aratus - Writings |
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| | | | Antigonus II Gonatas: Encyclopedia II - Taranto - From Renaissance to unification In March 1502, the Spanish fleet of Ferdinand II of Aragon, allied to Louis XII of France, seized the port of Taranto, and conquered the city.
1570 – Admiral Giovanni Andrea Doria set his fleet of 49 galleys in Mar Grande to repair and supply his ships. Among the people on the fleet there was Miguel de Cervantes. The fleet later united to the other parts of the Christian League, and defeated the Turkish fleet at Lepanto: also some Tarentine nobles took part to the battle.
1647 – The insurrection of Masaniello in Naples reached also Taranto.
1714 – After the Treaty of Rastatt, Sp ...
See also:Taranto, Taranto - The Greek period, Taranto - Foundation and splendour, Taranto - Wars against Rome, Taranto - Roman and Byzantine periods, Taranto - Roman Republic and Empire, Taranto - Byzantine Longobard Arab and Norman dominations, Taranto - Principality of Taranto 1088-1465, Taranto - From Renaissance to unification, Taranto - Modern times Read more here: » Taranto: Encyclopedia II - Taranto - From Renaissance to unification |
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| | | | Antigonus II Gonatas: Encyclopedia II - Battle of Heraclea - Preparation Before he left Epirus, he borrowed some phalanxes from King Ptolemy Keraunos of Macedon, and demanded ships and money from the Syrian king and from Antigonus II Gonatas of Antioch. The Egyptian king also promised to send 9,000 soldiers and 50 war elephants. These forces had to defend Epirus while Pyrrhus was gone. He recruited soldiers in Greece as well — horsemen from Thessaly and archers from Rhodes — as the Greek rulers wanted to avoid a war with Epirus. In the spring ...
See also:Battle of Heraclea, Battle of Heraclea - Background, Battle of Heraclea - Preparation, Battle of Heraclea - The battle, Battle of Heraclea - Order of Battle, Battle of Heraclea - Aftermath, Battle of Heraclea - Bibliography, Battle of Heraclea - Notes Read more here: » Battle of Heraclea: Encyclopedia II - Battle of Heraclea - Preparation |
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| | | | Antigonus II Gonatas: Encyclopedia II - Seleucid Empire - In modern media The Seleucid Empire is one of a number of factions in the 2004 PC game Rome: Total War.
The Jewish Maccabees, who expelled the Seleucid, are the name of a beer and several sports teams (including basketball and football) in Israel as of 2006.
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See also:Seleucid Empire, Seleucid Empire - The partition of Alexander's empire 323-281 BC, Seleucid Empire - An overextended domain, Seleucid Empire - Greco-Bactrian secession 250 BC, Seleucid Empire - Parthian secession 250 BC, Seleucid Empire - Eclipse and revival, Seleucid Empire - The power of Rome and renewed disintegration, Seleucid Empire - Civil war and further decay, Seleucid Empire - Collapse of the Seleucid Empire, Seleucid Empire - Seleucid rulers, Seleucid Empire - In modern media Read more here: » Seleucid Empire: Encyclopedia II - Seleucid Empire - In modern media |
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| | | | Antigonus II Gonatas: Encyclopedia II - Seleucid Empire - An overextended domain Nevertheless, even before Seleucus' death, the vast eastern domains of the Seleucids were proving difficult to assert control over. Seleucus had invaded India (modern Punjab in northern India and Pakistan) in 304 BC, leading to conflict with the Mauryan empire ruled by Chandragupta Maurya. It is said that Chandragupta fielded an army of 100,000 men and 9,000 war elephants, and forced Seleucus to conclude an alliance and give him his daughter in marriage. In exchange Chandragupta gave him no less than 500 elephants, an addition to his army ...
See also:Seleucid Empire, Seleucid Empire - The partition of Alexander's empire 323-281 BC, Seleucid Empire - An overextended domain, Seleucid Empire - Greco-Bactrian secession 250 BC, Seleucid Empire - Parthian secession 250 BC, Seleucid Empire - Eclipse and revival, Seleucid Empire - The power of Rome and renewed disintegration, Seleucid Empire - Civil war and further decay, Seleucid Empire - Collapse of the Seleucid Empire, Seleucid Empire - Seleucid rulers, Seleucid Empire - In modern media Read more here: » Seleucid Empire: Encyclopedia II - Seleucid Empire - An overextended domain |
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| | | | Antigonus II Gonatas: Encyclopedia II - Taranto - Principality of Taranto 1088-1465 Taranto became the capital of a Norman principality, whose first ruler was Robert Guiscard's son, Bohemond of Taranto, who obtained it as result of succession dispute: his father repudiated his first wife, Bohemond's mother, and had Roger Borsa, his son by his second wife Sikelgaita, succeed him as Duke of Apulia. Bohemond was compensated with Taranto and lands that covered almost all of the heel of Apulia. The principality of Taranto, during its 377 years of history, was sometimes a powerful and almost independent feudal fief of the Kingdom of Sicily (and later of Naples), sometimes only a title, often given to ...
See also:Taranto, Taranto - The Greek period, Taranto - Foundation and splendour, Taranto - Wars against Rome, Taranto - Roman and Byzantine periods, Taranto - Roman Republic and Empire, Taranto - Byzantine Longobard Arab and Norman dominations, Taranto - Principality of Taranto 1088-1465, Taranto - From Renaissance to unification, Taranto - Modern times Read more here: » Taranto: Encyclopedia II - Taranto - Principality of Taranto 1088-1465 |
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| | | | Antigonus II Gonatas: Encyclopedia II - Battle of Heraclea - The battle Pyrrhus didn't march against the Romans while he was waiting for his allies' reinforcements. When he understood that reinforcements were not coming, he decided to fight the Romans on a plain near the river Siris (modern Sinni), between Pandosia and Heraclea. Pyrrhus took up position there and waited. Before the fight he sent diplomats to the Roman consul, proposing that he could arbitrate the conflicts between Rome and the population of south Italy. He promised that his allies recognised him as a judge and demanded the same from the Romans. The Romans denied his request, and entered the plains on the ...
See also:Battle of Heraclea, Battle of Heraclea - Background, Battle of Heraclea - Preparation, Battle of Heraclea - The battle, Battle of Heraclea - Order of Battle, Battle of Heraclea - Aftermath, Battle of Heraclea - Bibliography, Battle of Heraclea - Notes Read more here: » Battle of Heraclea: Encyclopedia II - Battle of Heraclea - The battle |
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| | | | Antigonus II Gonatas: Encyclopedia II - Taranto - Roman and Byzantine periods
Taranto - Roman Republic and Empire.
In 122 BC a Roman colony was founded next to Taranto, according to the law proposed by Gaius Sempronius Gracchus. The colony was named Neptunia, after the Roman sea god Neptune, worshipped by the Tarentines. The Roman colony was separate from the Greek city, and populated by Roman colons, but it was later unified to the main centre when Taranto become a municipium, in 89 BC.
In 38 BC Mark Antony, Octavianus and Lepidus signed the Treaty of Tare ...
See also:Taranto, Taranto - The Greek period, Taranto - Foundation and splendour, Taranto - Wars against Rome, Taranto - Roman and Byzantine periods, Taranto - Roman Republic and Empire, Taranto - Byzantine Longobard Arab and Norman dominations, Taranto - Principality of Taranto 1088-1465, Taranto - From Renaissance to unification, Taranto - Modern times Read more here: » Taranto: Encyclopedia II - Taranto - Roman and Byzantine periods |
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| | | | Antigonus II Gonatas: Encyclopedia II - Edicts of Ashoka - Moral precepts The Dharma preached by Ashoka is explained mainly in term of moral precepts, based on the doing of good deeds, respect for others, generosity and purity.
Edicts of Ashoka - Right behaviour.
"Dhamma is good, but what constitutes Dhamma? (It includes) little evil, much good, kindness, generosity, truthfulness and purity." Pilar Edict Nb2 (S. Dhammika)
"And noble deeds of Dhamma and the practice of Dhamma consist of having kindness, generosity, truthfulness, purity, gentleness and goodness increase among the people." Rock Pilar Nb7 (S. Dhammika)
See also: Edicts of Ashoka, Edicts of Ashoka - Ashoka's conversion, Edicts of Ashoka - Ashoka's Proselytism, Edicts of Ashoka - Proselytism beyond India, Edicts of Ashoka - Proselytism within Ashoka's territories, Edicts of Ashoka - Moral precepts, Edicts of Ashoka - Right behaviour, Edicts of Ashoka - Benevolence, Edicts of Ashoka - Kindness to prisoners, Edicts of Ashoka - Respect for animal life, Edicts of Ashoka - Religious precepts, Edicts of Ashoka - Budddhism, Edicts of Ashoka - Belief in a next world, Edicts of Ashoka - Religious exchange, Edicts of Ashoka - Social welfare, Edicts of Ashoka - Medicinal treatments, Edicts of Ashoka - Roadside facilities, Edicts of Ashoka - Officers of the faith, Edicts of Ashoka - Notes, Edicts of Ashoka - Reference Read more here: » Edicts of Ashoka: Encyclopedia II - Edicts of Ashoka - Moral precepts |
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