Lion hunt in ancient Macedonia Lion hunt. Mosaic from Pella (ancient Macedonia); source: Wikipedia In Macedonia evidence begins with silver coin-types of the fifth century; King Archelaos is said to have been murdered out hunting; Philip II was said (by Arrian’s sources) to have instituted the corps of royal pages who attended him while out hunting; Herodotos, Pausanias, and Aristotle […]

Two non-contiguous fragments of a stele of Pentelic marble, found between the Theatre of Dionysus and the Odeum of Herodes, on the S. slope of the Acropolis; now in the Epigraphical Museum. Photo csad.ox.ac.uk Usual letters; ου is represented thirteen times by O, nine times by ΟΥ. Στοιχηδόν (but 1.7 has one extra letter). In lines 20,21 the letters are […]

The famous king (Βασιλεύς) of ancient Macedonia and father of Alexander the Great, Philip II was born in 383/82 BC. He was son of the king Amyntas III and queen Eurydice. His brothers were Alexander II, Perdiccas III and Eurynoe, while he had also 3 half brothers, the sons of Gygaea,  namely Menelaus, Arrhidaeus and Archelaus. [1] Early Life In 368 […]