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AncientMacedonianHistory1 Macedonian History : Prophecies about Greeks defeating the Persian Empire

Macedonian History - During Alexander's Pan-Hellenic Campaign in Asia, ancient sources occasionally mention prophecies which foretell the defeat of Persians by the Greeks. Here we present the most important of them. 1. The Chaldean Prophecy - Greeks will overthrow the Persian Empire  Curtius Rufus (3.3.6-7) "Already in a state of anciety over his immediate concerns, he was further ...

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AncientMacedonianHistory1 Ancient Macedonia : Slavs Lost in Translation

Thessaloniki was a princess; daughter of King Philip II, half sister of Alexander the Great. She was given this name because she was born on the day of the Macedonian victory at the Battle of Crocus Field. Her name literally translates to "Thessalian Victory", in Greek. The city of Thessaloniki, today the largest city of ...

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alexander How the Alexanders Mosaic was seen by Romans

Analysis by Rossella Lorenzi Wear patterns on one of the most celebrated mosaics of antiquity have allowed researchers to reconstruct exactly how ancient Romans viewed the artwork. Found during the 1831 excavations in the lava-buried town of Pompeii, the Alexander mosaic (now on display at the National Archaeological Museum in Naples) is the ...

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tfe no thumb The Marathon – 2500 years since

Tymphaios    April 25, 2010     The battle of Marathon was one of the most crucial battles in history. At the time Athens was a fledgling democracy, the world´s first, and the golden age of classical Athens had not yet ensued. A Persian victory would have radically changed the course of history and the history of Greece would have ...

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AncientMacedonianHistory1 Ancient writers about Macedonia – Arrian

ARRIAN - THE CAMPAIGNS OF ALEXANDER Penguin Classics, Translated by Aubrey De Selincourt [1] At Athens too there was a certain amount of trouble; but resistance collapsed the moment Alexander approached and he was granted even greater honours than his father Philip before him. Arrian, The Campaigns of Alexander Book 1, page 42 [2] They then presented themselves in ...

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normal Alexander the Great Bust Laminated Linen Protected Alexander the Great

By Rossella Lorenzi | Mon Jan 11, 2010 03:54 AM ET A Kevlar-like armor might have helped Alexander the Great (356–323 B.C.) conquer nearly the entirety of the known world in little more than two decades, according to new reconstructive archaeology research. Presented at the annual meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America in Anaheim, Calif., the ...

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AncientMacedonianHistory1 Alexanders Pan Hellenic Campaign   Prophecies that Greeks should conquer the Persian Empire

During Alexander's Pan-Hellenic Campaign in Asia, ancient sources occasionally mention prophecies which foretell the defeat of Persians by the Greeks. Here we present the most important of them. The Chaldean Prophecy - Greeks will overthrow the Persian Empire  Curtius Rufus (3.3.6-7) "Already in a state of anciety over his immediate concerns, he was further troubled by dreams of ...

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AncientMacedonianHistory1 Exposing FYROMs Fashionable Nonsense #1: Greek was the lingua franca before Alexander the Greats era like English is today

Erroneous Claim: "Greek was the lingua franca before Alexander the Great's era, like English is today" The above  is a widely-used false claim promoted mainly by FYROM's propaganda. The status of lingua franca, especially during the Achaemenid period (539-333) through the vast Persian empire[1] and the Mediteranean world had the Aramaic language. [2] Greek was not the lingua franca during ...

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twitter Spartans would have thrived on Twitter

Spartans would have thrived on Twitter Spartans prided themselves in never using more than six words when one would do. This is why they would have been brilliant on Twitter. Each tweet has a maximum of 140 characters. This explains why Moammar Gadaffi is not on Twitter. You have to use as few words as possible ...

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AncientMacedonianHistory1 Modern Historians   The Pan Hellenic Crusade of Alexander the Great

*Ulrich Wilcken, “Alexander the Great (The Norton Library) ”,   page 89 Alexander undertook as his first duty the liberation of the Greek cities of Asia Minor from the Persian yoke. page 91 Everywhere the liberation from Persian rule was greeted with enthusiasm, and Alexander celebrated as the liberator. page 94 The first point of the Panhellenic program had been quickly achieved: the ...

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