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- Persepolis (15450 bytes)
6: ...f Jamshid"). That they represent the Persepolis captured and partly destroyed by [[Alexander of Macedo...
8: ...akshi Rustam'' is expressly declared in its inscription to be the tomb of [[Darius Hystaspis]], concer...
12: ...shid would then belong to [[Artaxerxes II]] and [[Artaxerxes III]]. The unfinished one is perhaps that of [[Ar...
18: ...it was probably under this king, with whom the sceptre passed to a new branch of the royal house, that...
27: :(5) Promptly many torches were gathered. Female musicians w... - Esther (5002 bytes)
2: ...of Persia|Xerxes I]] or [[Artaxerxes II of Persia|Artaxerxes II]]), and heroine of the Biblical [[Book of Esth...
9: ...of the historicity of the [[Book of Esther]] attempt to derive the name from [[Ishtar]], the pagan god...
16: ...in their captivity, is also manifest from the Scripture account.
19: ...e to individual members of the Harem with the exception of domineering [[Queen consort]] [[Amestris]].
21: .... In addition phonetic difficulties exist in attempting to relate the names Esther and Ishtar, and ham... - Agesilaus II (5597 bytes)
3: ...attack. On the eve of sailing from Aulis he attempted to offer a sacrifice, as [[Agamemnon]] had done...
4: ... campaign in the interior, or even an attack on [[Artaxerxes]] himself, when he was recalled to [[Greece]] owi...
14: territory and capturing [[Lechaeum]] and [[Piraeum]]. The loss,
27: ...ed [[satrap]]s, and in [[361 BC]] he went to [[Egypt]] at the head of a [[mercenary]] force to aid [[T... - Alcibiades (7778 bytes)
30: ...issaphernes ([[412 BC]]), and persuaded him to adopt the negative policy of leaving Athens and Sparta ...
40: ...rygia]], with the object of securing the aid of [[Artaxerxes]] against Sparta. But the Spartans induced Pharna... - Alexander the Great (42049 bytes)
6: ...Empire]], including [[Anatolia]], [[Syria]], [[Egypt]], [[Bactria]] and [[Mesopotamia]], and extended...
11: ...his mother descended from [[Aeacus]] through [[Neoptolemus]] and [[Achilles]].
23: ...eventually forcing his opponents, the mercenary captain [[Memnon of Rhodes]] and the Persian satrap of...
27: ...the Ptolemaic dynasty after his death. Leaving Egypt, Alexander marched eastward into [[Assyria]] (now...
29: ...sia, Bactria and [[Scythia]]. In the process he captured and refounded [[Herat]] and [[Samarkand]], an... - Antalcidas (1665 bytes)
5: ...ourable to Sparta, threw Conon into prison, but [[Artaxerxes II]] (Mnemon) disapproved and recalled his satrap...
7: ...espont]] was such that [[Athens]] was glad to accept terms of peace (the '''Peace of Antalcidas'''), b...
10: ...under Persian rule -- were to be independent, except [[Lemnos]], Imbros and Scyros, which were to belo...
12: ...386 BC|386]]. Antalcidas continued in favour with Artaxerxes, until the annihilation of Spartan supremacy agft... - Achaemenid dynasty (14622 bytes)
2: [[Image:Ancient_eygpt-1.jpg|thumb|left|170px|Clipart provided by <br> [...
3: ...raq]], [[Turkey]], [[Bulgaria]], [[Greece]], [[Egypt]], [[Syria]], [[Pakistan]], [[Jordan]], [[Israel]...
5: ...t|Egyptian]] historians refer to the period in Egypt when the Achaemenid dynasty ruled as the '''Twent...
11: ... after seizing that city from the Elamites. Inscriptions indicate that when Teispes died, two of his s...
15: ...sassinated in 525, before starting out for his Egyptian campaign) until he was overthrown in 522 BC by...
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