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Female Contenders For Alexander’s Crown: Cynane, Adea, Olympias — 26 Oct 2022

Female Contenders For Alexander’s Crown: Cynane, Adea, Olympias

By MartiniF

History & Tradition

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Behind every successful man stands an ambitious woman, the saying goes, more-so if she is a blood-relative of Alxander the Great, and a warrior. Claiming descent from Herakles, the son of Zeus, through his great-great-grandson Temenus, King of...
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Female Contenders For Alexander’s Crown: Cynane, Adea, Olympias — 26 Oct 2022

Female Contenders For Alexander’s Crown: Cynane, Adea, Olympias

By MartiniF

History & Tradition

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Behind every successful man stands an ambitious woman, the saying goes, more-so if she is a blood-relative of Alxander the Great, and a warrior. Claiming descent from Herakles, the son of Zeus, through his great-great-grandson Temenus, King of...
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The sun sets on the ruins of Persepolis burnt by Alexander the Great in 330 BC (Pav-Pro Photography / Adobe Stock) — 07 Oct 2022

The Aftermath Of The Achaemenid Empire

By micki pistorius

Archaeology & Science

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Between 550 and 520 BC Cyrus the Great had unified the Medes and the Persians and founded an empire that stretched from the Indus River to North Africa and from the Aral Sea to the Persian Gulf. Professor Richard Frye, of Iranian Studies, Harvard...
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The sun sets on the ruins of Persepolis burnt by Alexander the Great in 330 BC (Pav-Pro Photography / Adobe Stock) — 07 Oct 2022

The Aftermath Of The Achaemenid Empire

By micki pistorius

Archaeology & Science

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Between 550 and 520 BC Cyrus the Great had unified the Medes and the Persians and founded an empire that stretched from the Indus River to North Africa and from the Aral Sea to the Persian Gulf. Professor Richard Frye, of Iranian Studies, Harvard...
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Reliefs based on the Pinelli engraving (1928). It depicts a scene from the everyday life and the campaign of Alexander the Great. Reliefs by the sculptor Pr. Tzanoulinos (bronze). Hellenic War Museum (Athens, Greece). (CC by 2.0 / Tilemahos Efthimiadis) — 05 Oct 2022

Archaeological Track of Alexander The Great’s Footprint in Persia

By micki pistorius

Archaeology & Science

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Archaeology in modern Iran tracks Alexander the Great’s footprint in ancient Persia as his army crossed the Euphrates, crisscrossed the plateaus, marched along the Royal Road, across the Zagros Mountains, fought three battles at Granicus (334...
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Reliefs based on the Pinelli engraving (1928). It depicts a scene from the everyday life and the campaign of Alexander the Great. Reliefs by the sculptor Pr. Tzanoulinos (bronze). Hellenic War Museum (Athens, Greece). (CC by 2.0 / Tilemahos Efthimiadis) — 05 Oct 2022

Archaeological Track of Alexander The Great’s Footprint in Persia

By micki pistorius

Archaeology & Science

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Archaeology in modern Iran tracks Alexander the Great’s footprint in ancient Persia as his army crossed the Euphrates, crisscrossed the plateaus, marched along the Royal Road, across the Zagros Mountains, fought three battles at Granicus (334...
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Detail of the Alexander Sarcophagus located in the Istanbul Archaeology Museum. Here Alexander fights the Persians at the Battle of Issus. (CC BY-SA 2.5) — 03 Oct 2022

Alexander Of Macedon And His Nemesis Persian Darius III

By micki pistorius

Archaeology & Science

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Ironically, Xenophon’s Cyropaedia, written around 370 BC, a narrative describing the education of the ideal ruler centred on Cyrus the Great founder of the Achaemenid Dynasty, was a great inspiration to Alexander of Macedon who 40 years later,...
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Detail of the Alexander Sarcophagus located in the Istanbul Archaeology Museum. Here Alexander fights the Persians at the Battle of Issus. (CC BY-SA 2.5) — 03 Oct 2022

Alexander Of Macedon And His Nemesis Persian Darius III

By micki pistorius

Archaeology & Science

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Ironically, Xenophon’s Cyropaedia, written around 370 BC, a narrative describing the education of the ideal ruler centred on Cyrus the Great founder of the Achaemenid Dynasty, was a great inspiration to Alexander of Macedon who 40 years later,...
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Horseman and griffin, Phrygia, 600–550 BC. (Sailko / CC BY-SA 3.0) — 18 Jul 2022

Anatolia’s Mighty Phrygia, The Kingdom Of Myth And Midas

By micki pistorius

Archaeology & Science

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In the western-central arid heartland of ancient Anatolia, the river Sangarios snaked through the ancient Iron Age Kingdom of Phrygia, once a rival to Assyria in the south-east and Urartu in the north-east for domination of the region. The name...
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Horseman and griffin, Phrygia, 600–550 BC. (Sailko / CC BY-SA 3.0) — 18 Jul 2022

Anatolia’s Mighty Phrygia, The Kingdom Of Myth And Midas

By micki pistorius

Archaeology & Science

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In the western-central arid heartland of ancient Anatolia, the river Sangarios snaked through the ancient Iron Age Kingdom of Phrygia, once a rival to Assyria in the south-east and Urartu in the north-east for domination of the region. The name...
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Aristotle and Alexander the Great by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris (1754) (Public Domain) — 04 Jul 2022

The Problem With Labelling Alexander, The Macedonian King With A Mercurial Character

By david grant

History & Tradition

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‘It is a naive belief that the distant past can be recovered from written texts, but even the written evidence for Alexander is scarce and often peculiar,’ says Robin Lane Fox in Alexander the Great (2004). Over the centuries, historians have...
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Aristotle and Alexander the Great by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris (1754) (Public Domain) — 04 Jul 2022

The Problem With Labelling Alexander, The Macedonian King With A Mercurial Character

By david grant

History & Tradition

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‘It is a naive belief that the distant past can be recovered from written texts, but even the written evidence for Alexander is scarce and often peculiar,’ says Robin Lane Fox in Alexander the Great (2004). Over the centuries, historians have...
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Hera and her pet peacocks. Juno and Argus by Peter Paul Rubens (circa 1611) Wallraf-Richartz-Museum (Public Domain) — 20 May 2022

Elephants, Eels, Fawns and Ravens: Ancient Lives Of Beloved Exotic Pets

By MartiniF

History & Tradition

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Unlike Aristotle who viewed animals as irrational creatures with lower moral standing, sent to earth solely to serve humans, Pythagoras regarded them highly and proposed that animals had reincarnated human souls. When Pythagoras saw someone beating...
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Hera and her pet peacocks. Juno and Argus by Peter Paul Rubens (circa 1611) Wallraf-Richartz-Museum (Public Domain) — 20 May 2022

Elephants, Eels, Fawns and Ravens: Ancient Lives Of Beloved Exotic Pets

By MartiniF

History & Tradition

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Unlike Aristotle who viewed animals as irrational creatures with lower moral standing, sent to earth solely to serve humans, Pythagoras regarded them highly and proposed that animals had reincarnated human souls. When Pythagoras saw someone beating...
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The Last Will and Testament of Alexander the Great: Its Appearance, Disappearance And Legacy — 17 Nov 2021

The Last Will and Testament of Alexander the Great: Its Appearance, Disappearance And Legacy

By david grant

History & Tradition

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“…the uncomfortable fact remains that the Alexander Romance provides us, on occasion, with apparently genuine materials found nowhere else, while our better-authenticated sources, per contra, are all too often riddled with bias, propaganda,...
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The Last Will and Testament of Alexander the Great: Its Appearance, Disappearance And Legacy — 17 Nov 2021

The Last Will and Testament of Alexander the Great: Its Appearance, Disappearance And Legacy

By david grant

History & Tradition

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“…the uncomfortable fact remains that the Alexander Romance provides us, on occasion, with apparently genuine materials found nowhere else, while our better-authenticated sources, per contra, are all too often riddled with bias, propaganda,...
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Compilation of the overall appearance of the statue based on Greek and Roman statuettes of the Sun-God and corresponding reconstruction of the 120m (393 ft) tall tower, designed by ©Andrew Michael Chugg — 27 Oct 2021

The Pharos Lighthouse Of Alexandria – Second Sun And Seventh Wonder Of The Ancient World

By Andrew Michael Chugg

Archaeology & Science

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The Pharos lighthouse in Alexandria was constructed in the first two decades of the third century BC and it may have been nominated as one of the world’s Seven Wonders as early as the middle of the same century by the Alexandrian poet Callimachus...
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Compilation of the overall appearance of the statue based on Greek and Roman statuettes of the Sun-God and corresponding reconstruction of the 120m (393 ft) tall tower, designed by ©Andrew Michael Chugg — 27 Oct 2021

The Pharos Lighthouse Of Alexandria – Second Sun And Seventh Wonder Of The Ancient World

By Andrew Michael Chugg

Archaeology & Science

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The Pharos lighthouse in Alexandria was constructed in the first two decades of the third century BC and it may have been nominated as one of the world’s Seven Wonders as early as the middle of the same century by the Alexandrian poet Callimachus...
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A painting by Charles Le Brun, French painter and art theorist, depicting Alexander and Porus during the Battle of the Hydaspes (1673) design by Anand N. Balaji (Public Domain); Deriv. — 28 Jul 2021

Alexander’s Indus Folly: Bizarre Search for the Source of the Nile in India

By anand balaji

History & Tradition

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When the Macedonian monarch Alexander III, popularly known as Alexander the Great, arrived in the northwest of the larger Indian subcontinent in 327 BC following his conquest of the massive Achaemenid Empire of the Persians, he was astonished by...
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A painting by Charles Le Brun, French painter and art theorist, depicting Alexander and Porus during the Battle of the Hydaspes (1673) design by Anand N. Balaji (Public Domain); Deriv. — 28 Jul 2021

Alexander’s Indus Folly: Bizarre Search for the Source of the Nile in India

By anand balaji

History & Tradition

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When the Macedonian monarch Alexander III, popularly known as Alexander the Great, arrived in the northwest of the larger Indian subcontinent in 327 BC following his conquest of the massive Achaemenid Empire of the Persians, he was astonished by...
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