Although Herodotus considered his "inquiries" a serious pursuit of knowledge, he was not above relating entertaining tales derived from the collective body of myth, but he did so judiciously with rega ...
Herodotus announced the size and scope of his work at the beginning of his Researches or Histories:?ροδ?του ?λικαρνησσ?ο? ?στορ?η? ?π?δεξι? ?δε, ?? μ?τε ...
The logographers (from the Ancient Greek λογογρ?φο?, logographos, a compound of λ?γο?, logos, here meaning "story" or "prose", and γρ?φω, grapho, "write") were the Greek historiogr ...
Generally a chronicle (Latin: chronica, from Greek χρονικ?, from χρ?νο?, chronos, "time") is a historical account of facts and events ranged in chronological order, as in a time line. Typ ...
He went to Rome after the termination of the civil wars, and spent twenty-two years studying Latin and literature and preparing materials for his history. During this period, he gave lessons in rhetor ...
According to Diodorus' own work, he was born at Agyrium in Sicily (now called Agira). With one exception, antiquity affords no further information about Diodorus' life and doings beyond what is to be ...
The partition was a result of a compromise, essentially brokered by Eumenes, following a conflict of opinion between the party of Meleager, who wished to give full power to Philip III of Macedon, and ...
Alexander the Great's accomplishments and legacy have been depicted in many cultures. Alexander has figured in both high and popular culture beginning in his own era to the present day. The Alexander ...
Alexander married twice: Roxana, daughter of the Bactrian nobleman Oxyartes, out of love; and Stateira II, a Persian princess and daughter of Darius III of Persia, for political reasons. He apparently ...
Alexander's army crossed the Hellespont in 334 BC with approximately 48,100 soldiers, 6,100 cavalry and a fleet of 120 ships with crews numbering 38,000, drawn from Macedon and various Greek city-stat ...
Alexander was born on the sixth day of the ancient Greek month of Hekatombaion, which probably corresponds to 20 July 356?BC, although the exact date is not known, in Pella, the capital of the Ancien ...
The word "satrap" originates ultimately (via Ancient Greek and Latin) from Old Persian x?a?apāvan ("protector of the province"), Sanskrit ????????? (kshatrapam or kshtrapa), from x?a?a ( ...
According to some, Tarn offers a somewhat idealistic interpretation of Alexander's conquests, as being essentially driven by his vision of the "unity of mankind", in line with the interpretation of Pl ...
The earliest known maps are of the heavens, not the earth. Dots dating to 16,500 BC found on the walls of the Lascaux caves map out part of the night sky, including the three bright stars Vega, Deneb, ...
The oldest known world maps date back to ancient Babylon from the 9th century BC. The best known Babylonian world map, however, is the Imago Mundi of 600 BC. The map as reconstructed by Eckhard Unger ...
