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- Alexander of Greece (rhetorician) (612 bytes)
1: ...es dianoias kai tes lexeos schematon,'' of which only an abridgment is extant; later epitomes were mad... - Alexander of Pherae (1959 bytes)
1: '''Alexander''', tagus or [[despotism|despot]] of [[Pherae]] i...
3: ...ondas]] with a large army to secure his release. Alexander's conduct caused renewed intervention; in 364 he ...
5: ...ch]]'s ''Life of Pelopidas,'' agree in describing Alexander as a cruel and suspicious tyrant:
7: ...e should not be permitted to disgrace the name of Alexander), as he watched a tragic actor, felt himself much...
8: ...:—Plutarch, ''Moralia:'' "On the Fortune of Alexander." - Alexander the Great (42049 bytes)
2: ...lexanderTheGreat_Bust.jpg|thumb|right|[[Bust]] of Alexander III in the [[British Museum]].]]
4: ...s such as the [[Middle-Persian]] literature as '''Alexander the Cursed''' due to his burning of the Persian c...
6: ...wn as the [[Hellenistic Greece|Hellenistic Age]]. Alexander himself lived on in the history and myth of both ...
9: ...on. [[Aristotle]] was Alexander's tutor; he gave Alexander a thorough training in rhetoric and literature an...
11: ...s]], rather than Philip. According to Plutarch (''Alexander'' 2.1), his father descended from [[Heracles]] th... - Amyntas I of Macedon (1062 bytes)
11: ... | Succeeded by:<br />'''[[Alexander I of Macedon|Alexander I]]''' - Amyntas III of Macedon (1278 bytes)
1: ...eus]], great-grandson of [[Alexander I of Macedon|Alexander I]], was king of [[Macedon]] from [[393 BC|393]] ...
14: ...| Succeeded by:<br />'''[[Alexander II of Macedon|Alexander II]]''' - Anaxarchus (1184 bytes)
3: ...iogenes Laertius]] (Lives 9.10.2), in response to Alexander's claim to have been the son of Zeus-Ammon, Anaxa...
5: ... with [[Callisthenes]], he advised all to worship Alexander as a god even during his lifetime, is with greate... - Anaximenes of Lampsacus (659 bytes)
1: ...ce]] and of [[Philip of Macedon]], and an epic on Alexander (fragments in Muller, ''Scriptores Rerum Alexandr...
2: ...ol. The ''Rhetorica ad Alexandrum'' ("Address to Alexander"), traditionally included among the works of [[Ar... - Antigonus I Monophthalmus (4328 bytes)
1: ...ajor figure in the [[Wars of the Diadochi]] after Alexander's death. He established the [[Antigonid dynasty]]...
5: ... BC]], and in the division of the provinces after Alexander's death in [[323 BC]] he also received [[Pamphyli...
11: ...his son, a declaration that he was claiming to be Alexander's heir. He now prepared a large army and a formi...
13: ... his death any plans he may have had of reuniting Alexander's Empire came to an end. The victors did not clai... - Ptolemy IX of Egypt (2673 bytes)
1: ... by his brother, [[Ptolemy X of Egypt|Ptolemy X]] Alexander.
3: ...uccessfully deposed him, putting her favorite son Alexander on the throne as co-regent with her. However, she...
5: ...about a year. She was forced to marry her stepson Alexander, who reigned under the name [[Ptolemy XI of Egypt... - Ptolemy VI of Egypt (2419 bytes)
5: ... until he was killed in Syria, fighting against [[Alexander Balas]]. - Ptolemy VIII of Egypt (5881 bytes)
9: ... rule and marriage to Cleopatra II, then had the unlucky youth assassinated during the wedding feast. ...
19: ... preferred. If it were up to her, her younger son Alexander would reign with her. However, the Alexandrians w...
25: * [[Peter Green (historian)|Peter Green]], ''Alexander to Actium'' ([[University of California Press]], ... - Ptolemy XI of Egypt (1594 bytes)
1: '''Ptolemy XI Alexander II''' was a member of the [[Ptolemaic dynasty]] w...
3: ...ung son of Ptolemy X to Egypt, displaying Ptolemy Alexander's will in Rome as justification for this obvious ...
11: * [[Peter Green (historian)|Peter Green]], ''Alexander to Actium'' ([[University of California Press]], ... - Pyrrho (3149 bytes)
3: ... concludes that, since nothing can be known, the only proper attitude is ''[[ataraxia]]'', "freedom fr...
5: ...are, we can only answer that we know nothing. We only know how things appear to us, but of their inner... - Pyrrhus of Epirus (7425 bytes)
21: ... inherit the kingdom of Sicily, and his other son Alexander to be given that of Italy. In [[277 BC|277]] Pyrr...
31: ...ond greatest commander the world had seen after [[Alexander the Great]]. Pyrrhus was also known to be very be... - St. Peter's Basilica (17805 bytes)
31: ...cedil;ade and the interior is the [[portico]]. Mainly designed by Maderno, it contains an [[18th centu...
33: ...ico Consorti]] ([[1950]]), which is by tradition only opened for great celebrations such as [[Jubilee ...
89: ...ment''', which is open during religious services only. Inside it is a tabernacle on the altar resembli...
95: ... transept is the monument to [[Pope Alexander VII|Alexander VII]] by Bernini. A skeleton lifts a fold of red ... - Asteroid (24334 bytes)
16: ...; both have diameters of ~500 km. 4 Vesta is the only main belt asteroid that is sometimes visible to ...
21: ...details of the [[visible spectrum|spectrum]] of sunlight they reflect.
30: ...'s surface material. Originally, they classified only three types of asteroids:
64: ...overed up to that point. Still, a century later, only a few thousand asteroids were identified, number...
69: ... constitute asteroid discovery: the observer has only found an [[apparition]], which gets a [[provisio... - Tibetan art (2932 bytes)
6: ==Greek influence brought by Alexander the Great==
7: The conquests of [[Alexander the Great]] brought [[Greek art]] influences to [... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
137: *[[Alexander Benois]] ([[1870]]-[[1960]])
204: *[[Alexander Brook]] ([[1898]]-[[1980]])
220: *[[Alexander Bugan]] ([[1952]]-)
228: *[[Alexander Calder]] ([[1898]]-[[1976]])
576: *[[Alexander Ivanov (painter)|Alexander Ivanov]] ([[1806]]-[[1858]]) - Albania (24647 bytes)
74: ... state (Shqip벩a) derives, a name which appears only in the time of the Turkish invasions. The Albani...
87: ...y [[Philip II of Macedon|Philip II]], father of [[Alexander the Great]], who effectively terminated the Illyr...
89: ...as influenced by the Greek-Macedonian culture (mainly the south Illyrian tribes). Greek influence was ...
96: .... Prince William left Albania in September 1914, only six months after his arrival, while bands of Gre...
144: ...000]], Ionian beaches were heavily populated but only by residents, with very few tourists. Between 19... - Crusade (28507 bytes)
9: ...gainst the Islamic [[Moors]]. In [[1063]], [[Pope Alexander II]] had given papal blessing to Spanish [[Christ...
25: ...tian war against Muslim conquests, it is not the only such example. The [[Normans|Norman]] adventurer ...
28: ... both Arabs (in Sicily) and Byzantines (on the mainland). A Latin hegemony in the Levant would provide...
34: On a popular level, the first crusades unleashed an unprecedented wave of impassioned, perso...
41: ...ut also in Spain and central Europe, against not only Muslims, but also Christian heretics and persona...
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