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, ...

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 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. ...