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Alexander III of Macedon (Ancient Greek: Ἀλέξανδρος, romanized: Aléxandros; 20/21 July 356 BC – 10/11 June 323 BC), most commonly known as Alexander the Great, was a king of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon.
Allocation of satrapies at the Partition of Babylon, following Diodorus Siculus Coin of Philip III Arrhidaios, struck under Asandros as satrap of Caria in Miletus circa 323-319 BC, in the name and types of Alexander the Great. Asander or Asandros (Greek: Άσανδρoς; lived 4th century BC) was the son of Philotas and brother of Parmenion and ...
Alexander's empire stretched from his homeland of Macedon itself, along with the Greek city-states that his father had subdued, to Bactria and parts of India in the east. It included parts of the present day Balkans , Anatolia , the Levant , Egypt , Babylonia , and most of the former Achaemenid Empire, except for some lands the Achaemenids ...
Volunteers from Annunciation's Philoptochos Society of Akron and Kalymnian Society of Campbell, Ohio, baked 400 loaves of tsourekia, a braided sweet Easter bread, Tuesday for Annunciation's Easter ...
Alexander the Great, king of Macedonia, launched an invasion of the Achaemenid Empire in 333 BC. Defeating King Darius III in the key battles of Issus (333 BC) and Gaugamela (331 BC), Alexander captured the major cities of Babylon, Susa, and Persepolis, and in 330 BC marched eastwards to confront the remaining Persian forces led by Bessus in Bactria. [11]
Dr. William S. Alexander House, in Oxford, Ohio, was built in 1869 and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987. [1] The house was recognized as a good example of an I-house with transitional Greek Revival and Italianate elements. It has an unusual two-style side portico. [2]
Dinocrates also worked on an incomplete funerary monument for Alexander's father, Philip II. Other works include several city plans and temples in Delphi , Delos and other Greek cities. According to preliminary findings by archaeologists he may have been the architect of a vast Hellenistic tomb found at Amphipolis [ 4 ] in 2012.
According to legend, Alexander went on pilgrimage to the Siwa Oasis, the sanctuary of the Greco-Egyptian deity Zeus Ammon in 331 BC. There, he was pronounced by the Oracle to be the son of Zeus Ammon, [2] allowing him to therefore have the Horns of Ammon, which themselves followed from Egyptian iconography of Ammon as a ram-headed god or, in his Greek-form, a man with ram horns. [3]