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May 8, 2024 · NPR - The Peloponnesian War (May 08, 2024) Peloponnesian War, (431–404 bce ), war fought between the two leading city-states in ancient Greece, Athens and Sparta. Each stood at the head of alliances that, between them, included nearly every Greek city-state. The fighting engulfed virtually the entire Greek world, and it was properly regarded ...
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Its empire was dismantled, and the Spartans installed the...
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Peloponnese, peninsula of 8,278 square miles (21,439 square...
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May 20, 2024 · Seleucid empire (312–64 BCE), an ancient empire that at its greatest extent stretched from Thrace in Europe to the border of India. It was carved out of the remains of Alexander the Great’s Macedonian empire by its founder, Seleucus I Nicator. Learn more about the Seleucid empire in this article.
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2 days ago · The Seleucid Empire (/ s ɪ ˈ lj uː s ɪ d /; Ancient Greek: Βασιλεία τῶν Σελευκιδῶν, romanized: Basileía tōn Seleukidōn, lit. 'Realm of the Seleucids') was a Hellenistic power [10] [11] in West Asia during the Hellenistic period .
2 days ago · For a brief period, his Macedonian Empire was the most powerful in the world – the definitive Hellenistic state, inaugurating the transition to a new period of Ancient Greek civilization. Greek arts and literature flourished in the new conquered lands and advances in philosophy, engineering, and science spread across the empire and beyond.
1 day ago · 300,000 killed. The Greco-Persian Wars (also often called the Persian Wars) were a series of conflicts between the Achaemenid Empire and Greek city-states that started in 499 BC [i] and lasted until 449 BC. The collision between the fractious political world of the Greeks and the enormous empire of the Persians began when Cyrus the Great ...
May 24, 2024 · ancient Rome, the state centred on the city of Rome. This article discusses the period from the founding of the city and the regal period, which began in 753 bc, through the events leading to the founding of the republic in 509 bc, the establishment of the empire in 27 bc, and the final eclipse of the Empire of the West in the 5th century ad.
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May 14, 2024 · Philetaerus is appointed governor of Pergamon. In 301 BC, Pergamon, as well as much of Asia Minor, came under the control of Lysimachus. Lysimachus had served under Alexander the Great, and now, with the Macedonian king dead, sought a slice of his empire for himself. Having just defeated Antigonus Monopthalmus, another of Alexander’s generals ...
