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Amphipolis (Greek: Αμφίπολη, romanized: Amfipoli; Ancient Greek: Ἀμφίπολις, romanized: Amphipolis) [1] was an important ancient Greek polis (city), and later a Roman city, whose large remains can still be seen.
Kasta tumulus and Amphipolis location map Kasta tumulus – view from Amphipolis. The Kasta Tomb (Greek: Τύμβος Καστά), also known as the Amphipolis Tomb (Greek: Τάφος της Αμφίπολης), is the largest ancient tumulus (burial mound) ever discovered in Greece, and by comparison dwarfs that of Philip II of Macedon, father of Alexander the Great, in Vergina.
The first European translation of Thucydides (into Latin) was made by the humanist Lorenzo Valla between 1448 and 1452, and the first Greek edition was published by Aldo Manuzio in 1502. During the Renaissance , however, Thucydides attracted less interest among Western European historians as a political philosopher than his successor, Polybius ...
The term First Temple is customarily used to describe the Temple of the pre-exilic period, which is thought to have been destroyed by the Babylonian conquest. It is described in the Bible as having been built by King Solomon and is understood to have been constructed with its Holy of Holies centered on a stone hilltop now known as the Foundation Stone which had been a traditional focus of ...
Amphipolis surrendered, despite protests from Eucles. [10] Thucydides arrived at the nearby port of Eion on the same day the city surrendered, and defended it with help from those who had left Amphipolis. [11] Meanwhile, Brasidas began to ally with more Thracian towns and attack other towns in the area, such as Torone. The Athenians were afraid ...
The ancient Persian fort at Eion (left) and the mouth of the Strymon (right), seen from Ennea Hodoi ().. Eion (Ancient Greek: Ἠϊών, Ēiṓn), ancient Chrysopolis, [1] was an ancient Greek Eretrian [2] colony in Thracian Macedonia specifically in the region of Edonis.
Khirbet 'Eîd el Mieh, stone water trough (at the lower site). Adullam (Hebrew: עֲדֻלָּם, romanized: ʿəḏullām, Koinē Greek: Οδολλάμ) is an ancient ruin once numbered among the thirty-six cities of Canaan whose kings "Joshua and the children of Israel smote" (Joshua 12:7–24). [1]
(The Homerica have been called the pagan Greek "Bible".) Says Oswyn Murray in the Cambridge Ancient History, [ 32 ] It is certainly hard to find fault with his general view that the only adequate explanation for the Persian Wars must be a complete account of relations between the two peoples since the conquest of the Ionian cities in 545 B.C.