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Encyclopedia - Antipater: Encyclopedia - Antipater
Antipater (in Greek Αντίπατρος; lived c. 397 BC–319 BC) was a Macedonian general and a supporter of kings Philip II of Macedo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Antipater: Encyclopedia Ii - Antipater - Career Under Philip And Alexander
Nothing is known of his early career until 342 BC, when he was appointed by Philip to govern Macedon as his regent while the former left ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 323 Bc: Encyclopedia - 323 Bc
Centuries: 5th century BC - 4th century BC - 3rd century BC Decades: 370s BC 360s BC 350s BC 340s BC 330s BC - 320s BC - 310s BC 300s BC ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Antigonus I Monophthalmus: Encyclopedia - Antigonus I Monophthalmus
Antigonus I Cyclops or Monophthalmus ("the One-eyed", so called from his having lost an eye) (382 BC - 301 BC) was a Macedonian nobleman,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Berenice Daughter Of Salome: Encyclopedia - Berenice Daughter Of Salome
Berenice was the daughter of Salome Alexandra, sister of Herod the Great. She married her cousin Aristobulus, who was assassinated in 6 B...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Andros: Encyclopedia - Andros
Andros, or Andro (Greek: Άνδρος), an island of the Greek archipelago, the most northerly of the Cyclades, approximately 10 km (6 m...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Antigonus Ii Gonatas: Encyclopedia - Antigonus Ii Gonatas
Antigonus II Gonatas (c. 319 BC—239 BC) was a powerful ruler who definitely established the Antigonid dynasty in Macedonia and acquired...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pharisees: Encyclopedia - Pharisees
The Pharisees (from the Hebrew perushim, from parash, meaning "to separate") were, depending on the time, a political party, a social mov...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 318 Bc: Encyclopedia - 318 Bc
Centuries: 5th century BC - 4th century BC - 3rd century BC Decades: 360s BC 350s BC 340s BC 330s BC 320s BC 310s BC 300s BC 290s BC 280s...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cultural And Historical Background Of Jesus: Encyclopedia - Cultural And Historical Background Of Jesus
As historian E. P. Sanders has observed, of all the religions that existed within the Roman Empire, only two have widespread followings t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alexander The Great: Encyclopedia - Alexander The Great
Alexander the Great (in Greek Μέγας Αλέξανδρος, transliterated Megas Alexandros; born in Pella, Macedon, in July, 356 BC, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 331 Bc: Encyclopedia - 331 Bc
Centuries: 5th century BC - 4th century BC - 3rd century BC Decades: 380s BC 370s BC 360s BC 350s BC 340s BC - 330s BC - 320s BC 310s BC ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 322 Bc: Encyclopedia - 322 Bc
Centuries: 5th century BC - 4th century BC - 3rd century BC Decades: 370s BC 360s BC 350s BC 340s BC 330s BC - 320s BC - 310s BC 300s BC ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Xenocrates: Encyclopedia - Xenocrates
Xenocrates of Chalcedon (396 - 314 BC) was a Greek philosopher and scholarch or rector of the Academy from 339 to 314 BC. Removing to Ath...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Stoicism: Encyclopedia - Stoicism
Stoicism is a school of philosophy founded (308 BC) in Athens by Zeno of Citium (Cyprus). It teaches self-control and detachment from dis...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ancient Greece: Encyclopedia - Ancient Greece
Ancient Greece is the term used to describe the Greek-speaking world in ancient times. It refers not only to the geographical peninsula o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 319 Bc: Encyclopedia - 319 Bc
Centuries: 5th century BC - 4th century BC - 3rd century BC Decades: 360s BC 350s BC 340s BC 330s BC 320s BC 310s BC 300s BC 290s BC 280s...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Craterus: Encyclopedia - Craterus
Craterus (c. 370 BC - 321 BC) was a Macedonian general under Alexander the Great and one of the Diadochi. He was the son of a Macedonian ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ancient Greece: Encyclopedia Ii - Ancient Greece - Society
The distinguishing features of ancient Greek society were the division between free and slave, the differing roles of men and women, the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alexander The Great: Encyclopedia Ii - Alexander The Great - Period Of Conquests
Alexander the Great - The defeat of the Persian Empire. Alexander's army had crossed the Hellespont with about 42,000 soldiers---primar...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alexander The Great: Encyclopedia Ii - Alexander The Great - Period Of Conquests
Alexander the Great - The defeat of the Persian Empire. Alexander's army had crossed the Hellespont with about 42,000 soldiers---primar...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Antigonus Ii Gonatas: Encyclopedia Ii - Antigonus Ii Gonatas - King Of Macedonia
Antigonus II Gonatas - Antigonus against Pyrrhus. Pyrrhus, king of Epirus, Macedonia's Western neighbour, was a general of mercurial ab...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cultural And Historical Background Of Jesus: Encyclopedia Ii - Cultural And Historical Background Of Jesus - The Second Temple Era
Cultural and historical background of Jesus - The Persian Period. In 539 BCE the Persians conquered Babylon and in 537 BCE, inaugurated...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alexander The Great: Encyclopedia Ii - Alexander The Great - Period Of Conquests
Alexander the Great - The defeat of the Persian Empire. Alexander's army had crossed the Hellespont with about 40,000 soldiers---primar...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Macedon: Encyclopedia Ii - Macedon - Hellenic Controversy
The controversy whether or not ancient Macedonia should be considered a Hellenic state is addressed variously: based on ancient sources, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Macedonia Region: Encyclopedia Ii - Macedonia Region - History
Macedonia region - Ancient Macedonia 500 BC to 146 BC. For a more complete treatment of early Macedonia, see Macedon. Macedonia is kn...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Stoicism: Encyclopedia Ii - Stoicism - Quotations
Collection of various Stoic quotes: Epictetus: “Wherever I go, it will be well with me.” "When I see a man in a state of anxiety, I ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pharisees: Encyclopedia Ii - Pharisees - Pharisees In The Second Temple Era
Pharisees - The Persian Period. In 539 BCE the Persians conquered Babylon and in 537 BCE, inaugurating the Persian period of Jewish his...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Diadochi: Encyclopedia Ii - Diadochi - Wars Of The Diadochi 322-301 Bc
Diadochi - First War of the Diadochi 322-320 BC. Soon, however, conflict broke out. Perdiccas's marriage to Alexander's sister Cleopatr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Stoicism: Encyclopedia Ii - Stoicism - Quotations
Collection of various Stoic quotes: Epictetus: “Wherever I go, it will be well with me.” "When I see a man in a state of anxiety, I ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hellenistic Greece: Encyclopedia Ii - Hellenistic Greece - Macedonian Dominance
The conquests of Alexander had a number of consequences for the Greek city-states. It greatly widened the horizons of the Greeks, making ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Phocis: Encyclopedia Ii - Phocis - History
The early history of Phocis remains quite obscure. During the Persian invasion of 480 BC the Phocians at first joined in the national def...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Sparta: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Sparta - The 5th Century Bce
The beginning of the 5th century saw Sparta at the height of her power, though her prestige must have suffered in the fruitless attempts ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Phocis: Encyclopedia Ii - Phocis - Phocis Today
Phocis is today a prefecture and the capital is at Amfissa. It is one of the least populated prefectures in Greece. The neighboring prefe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Phocis: Encyclopedia Ii - Phocis - Geography
Ancient Phocis was about 1,619 km² (625 mi²) in area, bounded on the west by Ozolian Locris and Doris, on the north by Opuntian Locris,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alexander The Great: Encyclopedia Ii - Alexander The Great - Alexander's Legend
Alexander was a legend in his own time. His court historian Callisthenes portrayed the sea in Cilicia as drawing back from him in proskyn...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Sparta: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Sparta - The 4th Century Bce
The fall of Athens left Sparta once again supreme in the Greek world and demonstrated clearly its total unfitness for rule. Everywhere de...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Sparta: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Sparta - The 6th Century Bce
Early in the 6th century the Spartan kings Leon and Agasicles made a vigorous attack on Tegea, the most powerful of the Arcadian cities, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Sparta: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Sparta - The Expansion Of Sparta
We cannot trace in detail the process by which Sparta subjugated the whole of Laconia, but apparently the first step, taken in the reign ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Sparta: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Sparta - Prehistoric Period
Tradition relates that Sparta was founded by Lacedaemon, son of Zeus and Taygete, who called the city after his wife, the daughter of Eur...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Sparta: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Sparta - The 3rd Century Bce
Twenty-two years later the city was attacked by an immense force under Pyrrhus, but Spartan bravery had not died out and the formidable e...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Sparta: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Sparta - Intervention Of Rome
Nonetheless, a vigorous struggle was maintained with the Achaean League and with Macedon until the Romans, after the conclusion of their ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Stoicism: Encyclopedia Ii - Stoicism - Stoic Ethics And Virtues
The ancient Stoics are often misunderstood because the terms they used meant different things in the past than they do today. The word st...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Stoicism: Encyclopedia Ii - Stoicism - History
Stoicism first appeared in Athens in the Hellenistic period around 301 BC and was introduced by Zeno of Citium. He taught in the famous s...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Sparta: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Sparta - Medieval Sparta
In CE 406 Alaric destroyed the city, and at a later period Laconia was invaded and settled by Slavonic tribes, especially the Melings and...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ancient Greece: Encyclopedia Ii - Ancient Greece - The Peloponnesian War
In 431 BC war broke out again between Athens and Sparta and its allies. The immediate cause was a dispute between Corinth and one of its ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ancient Greece: Encyclopedia Ii - Ancient Greece - The Peloponnesian War
In 431 BC war broke out again between Athens and Sparta and its allies. The immediate cause was a dispute between Corinth and one of its ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alexander The Great: Encyclopedia Ii - Alexander The Great - Death
On the afternoon of June 10 - 11, 323 BC, Alexander died of a mysterious illness in the palace of Nebuchadrezzar II of Babylon. He was ju...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alexander The Great: Encyclopedia Ii - Alexander The Great - The Army Of Alexander The Great Before The Battle Of Gaugamela
The army of Alexander was, for the most part, that of his father Philip. It was composed of light and heavy troops and some engineers, me...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alexander The Great: Encyclopedia Ii - Alexander The Great - Alexander's Marriages And Sexuality
Alexander's greatest emotional attachment is generally considered to have been to his companion, cavalry commander (chiliarchos) and prob...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alexander The Great: Encyclopedia Ii - Alexander The Great - Legacy And Division Of The Empire
After Alexander's death, his empire was divided among his officers, mostly with the pretense of first preserving a united kingdom. Later,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alexander The Great: Encyclopedia Ii - Alexander The Great - Alexander's Character
Modern opinion on Alexander has run the gamut from the idea that he believed he was on a divinely-inspired mission to unite the human rac...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ancient Greece: Encyclopedia Ii - Ancient Greece - The Persian Wars
In Ionia (the modern Aegean coast of Turkey) the Greek cities, which included great centres such as Miletus and Halicarnassus, were unabl...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Macedonia Region: Encyclopedia Ii - Macedonia Region - Demographics
As a frontier region where several very different cultures meet, Macedonia has an extremely diverse demographic profile. Greeks form the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alexander The Great: Encyclopedia Ii - Alexander The Great - Ancient Sources
The ancient sources for Alexander's life are, from the perspective of ancient history, relatively numerous. Alexander himself left only a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alexander The Great: Encyclopedia Ii - Alexander The Great - Early Life
Alexander was the son of King Philip II of Macedon and of Epirote princess Olympias. According to Plutarch (Alexander 3.1,3), Olympias wa...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Diadochi: Encyclopedia Ii - Diadochi - The Struggle Of Lysimachus And Seleucus 285-281 Bc
Although Lysimachus and Pyrrhus had cooperated in driving Antigonus Gonatas from Thessaly and Athens, in the wake of Demetrius's capture ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alexander The Great: Encyclopedia Ii - Alexander The Great - Alexander's Marriages And Sexuality
Alexander's greatest emotional attachment is generally considered to have been to his companion, cavalry commander (chiliarchos) and prob...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alexander The Great: Encyclopedia Ii - Alexander The Great - Death
On the afternoon of June 10 - 11, 323 BC, Alexander died of a mysterious illness in the palace of Nebuchadrezzar II of Babylon. He was on...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ancient Greece: Encyclopedia Ii - Ancient Greece - Origins
The Greeks are believed to have migrated southward into the Balkan peninsula in several waves beginning in the late 3rd millennium BC, th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ancient Greece: Encyclopedia Ii - Ancient Greece - Social And Political Conflict
The Greek cities were originally monarchies, although many of them were very small and the term "King" (basileus) for their rulers is mis...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ancient Greece: Encyclopedia Ii - Ancient Greece - The Rise Of Hellas
In the 8th century BC Greece began to emerge from the Dark Ages which followed the fall of the Mycenaean civilization. Literacy had been ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pharisees: Encyclopedia Ii - Pharisees - Pharisees And Christianity
In the 4th century CE, Christians canonized a "New Testament" consisting of texts written between 60 CE and about 150 CE, which spell out...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pharisees: Encyclopedia Ii - Pharisees - Pharisaic Principles And Values
At first the values of the Pharisees developed through their sectarian debates with the Sadducees; then they developed through internal, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pharisees: Encyclopedia Ii - Pharisees - From Pharisees To Rabbis
Revolutionaries like the Zealots had been crushed by the Romans, and had little credibility (the last Zealots died at Masada in 73 CE). S...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pharisees: Encyclopedia Ii - Pharisees - Background: The Religion Of Ancient Israel
Although the Pharisees did not emerge until the Hasmonean period, their origins, like those of the Saducees, may be traced to institution...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Stoicism: Encyclopedia Ii - Stoicism - History
Stoicism first appeared in Athens in the Hellenistic period around 301 BC and was introduced by Zeno of Citium. He taught in the famous s...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Stoicism: Encyclopedia Ii - Stoicism - Stoic Ethics And Virtues
The ancient Stoics are often misunderstood because the terms they used meant different things in the past than they do today. The word st...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alexander The Great: Encyclopedia Ii - Alexander The Great - Early Life
Alexander was the son of King Philip II of Macedon and of Epirote princess Olympias. According to Plutarch (Alexander 3.1,3), Olympias wa...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ancient Greece: Encyclopedia Ii - Ancient Greece - The Dominance Of Athens
The Persian Wars ushered in a century of Athenian dominance of Greek affairs. Athens was the unchallenged master of the sea, and also the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hellenistic Greece: Encyclopedia Ii - Hellenistic Greece - Philip V
Antigonus II died in 239. His death saw another revolt of the Greek cities led by the Achaean League, whose dominant figure was Aratus of...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Diadochi: Encyclopedia Ii - Diadochi - The Gallic Invasions And Consolidation 280 - 275
Ptolemy Ceraunus was also not to enjoy the rule of Macedon for very long. The death of Lysimachus had left the Danube border of the Maced...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Diadochi: Encyclopedia Ii - Diadochi - The Struggle Over Macedon 298-285 Bc
The events of the next decade and a half were centered around various intrigues for control of Macedon itself. Cassander died in 298 BC, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Diadochi: Encyclopedia Ii - Diadochi - Death Of Alexander 323 Bc
When Alexander the Great died (June 10, 323 BC), he left behind a huge empire which was composed of many essentially independent territor...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hellenistic Greece: Encyclopedia Ii - Hellenistic Greece - The Rise Of Rome
In 192 war broke out between Rome and the Seleucid ruler Antiochus III. Some Greek cities now saw Antiochus as their saviour from Roman r...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Macedon: Encyclopedia Ii - Macedon - Early History
The first Macedonian state emerged 8th or early 7th century BC under the Argead Dynasty, when the Macedonians are said to have migrated t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Macedonia Region: Encyclopedia Ii - Macedonia Region - Etymology Of The Name Of Macedonia
According to ancient Greek mythology, Macedon - ancient Greek Μακεδών Makedōn, poetic Μακηδών Makēdōn - was the name of ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Macedon: Encyclopedia Ii - Macedon - Language
See main article: Ancient Macedonian language. The language spoken by the area's inhabitants prior to the 5th century BC, and continued i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Macedon: Encyclopedia Ii - Macedon - Expansion
Under Philip II, (359-336 BC), Macedon expanded into the territory of the Paionians, Thracians, and Illyrians. This brought into its orbi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cultural And Historical Background Of Jesus: Encyclopedia Ii - Cultural And Historical Background Of Jesus - Jesus In This Context
Cultural and historical background of Jesus - Overview. According to the Gospels, Jesus was born in Bethlehem, although he grew up in N...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cultural And Historical Background Of Jesus: Encyclopedia Ii - Cultural And Historical Background Of Jesus - First Temple Era
The ancient land of Israel (also called the land of Canaan, Palestine and Judea and Samaria) is situated on the easternmost coast of the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ancient Greece: Encyclopedia Ii - Ancient Greece - The Conquests Of Alexander
Philip was succeeded by his 20-year-old son Alexander, who immediately set out to carry out his father's plans. He travelled to Corinth w...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ancient Greece: Encyclopedia Ii - Ancient Greece - The Rise Of Macedon
The Kingdom of Macedon was formed in the 7th century BC out of northern Greek tribes. They played little part in Greek politics before th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ancient Greece: Encyclopedia Ii - Ancient Greece - Spartan And Theban Dominance
The end of the Peloponnesian War left Sparta the master of Greece, but the narrow outlook of the Spartan warrior elite did not suit them ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ancient Greece: Encyclopedia Ii - Ancient Greece - The Persian Wars
In Ionia (the modern Aegean coast of Turkey) the Greek cities, which included great centres such as Miletus and Halicarnassus, were unabl...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ancient Greece: Encyclopedia Ii - Ancient Greece - The Peloponnesian War
In 431 BC war broke out again between Athens and Sparta and its allies. The proximate cause was a dispute between Corinth and one of its ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Antigonus Ii Gonatas: Encyclopedia Ii - Antigonus Ii Gonatas - In The Wilderness
In 285 BC, Demetrius, worn down by his fruitless campaign, surrendered to Seleucus. At this point he wrote to son and his commanders in A...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Antigonus Ii Gonatas: Encyclopedia Ii - Antigonus Ii Gonatas - Demetrius's General
The fate of Antigonus Gonatas, now 18, was closely tied with that of his father Demetrius who escaped from the battle with 9.000 troops. ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Antigonus Ii Gonatas: Encyclopedia Ii - Antigonus Ii Gonatas - Birth And Family
Antigonus Gonatas was born around 319 BC, probably in Gonnoi in Thessaly. He was related to the most powerful of the Diadochi (the genera...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Macedonia Region: Encyclopedia Ii - Macedonia Region - Boundaries And Definitions
The name of Macedonia has not been always used with regard to the region as defined above. In its beginnings, the ancient state of Macedo...   » Read the article