On the night the twins Heracles and Iphicles were to be born, Hera, knowing of her husband Zeus ' adultery, persuaded Zeus to swear an oath that the child born that night to a member of the House of Perseus would become High King.

* 168 BC – Battle of Pydna: Romans under Lucius Aemilius Paullus defeat Macedonian King Perseus who surrenders after the battle, ending the Third Macedonian War.

It was invented in 168 BC and was employed by some of the Macedonian troops of King Perseus in Third Macedonian war.

* Perseus of Macedon, last King of the Antigonid dynasty

* Lucius Aemilius Paulus returns to Italy with the King of Macedonia, Perseus, as his prisoner for his triumphal procession in Rome, where the Macedonians captured are sold into slavery.

* In Thessaly, King Perseus of Macedon repulses a Roman army which is commanded by Aulus Hostilius Mancinus.

* Lucius Postumius Albinus is sent by Rome as an ambassador to King Masinissa of Numidia, and to the Carthaginians in order to raise troops for the war against Perseus of Macedonia.

* After three years of intriguing against his younger brother Demetrius, including accusing him of coveting the succession to the Macedonian throne and being allied to Rome, Perseus persuades his father King Philip V of Macedon to have Demetrius executed.

King Polydectes sent Perseus to kill Medusa in hopes of getting him out of the way, while he pursued Perseus's mother, Danae.

Perseus and Danaë return to Argos with Andromeda, but King Acrisius has gone to Larissa.

They washed ashore on the island of Seriphos, where they were taken in by Dictys-the brother of King Polydectes-who raised Perseus to manhood.

Greek language | Greek inscription reads " ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΠΕΡΣΕΩΣ " ( King Perseus ).

The Third Macedonian War started in 171 BC, after a number of acts on the part of King Perseus of Macedon incited Rome to declare war.

* Romans entered Macedonia from the south and defeated King Perseus of Macedon in the battle of Pydna in 168 BC.

Similarly, the Roman writer Valerius Maximus records how the general Lucius Aemilius Paulus Macedonicus " after King Perseus was vanquished 167 BC, for the same fault ( desertion ) threw men under elephants to be trampled ... And indeed military discipline needs this kind of severe and abrupt punishment, because this is how strength of arms stands firm, which, when it falls away from the right course, will be subverted.

The Third Macedonian War ( 171 BC-168 BC ) was a war fought between Rome and King Perseus of Macedon.

In 179 BC King Philip V of Macedon died and his talented and ambitious son, Perseus, took his throne.

Perseus married Laodike, daughter of King Seleucus IV Keraunos of Asia, and increased the size of his army.

King Eumenes II of Pergamon, who hated Macedonia, accused Perseus of trying to violate laws of other states and conditions of peace between Macedonia and Rome.

Perseus tried to win Eumenes of Pergamon and King Antiochus IV of the Seleucid Empire over to his side but failed.

In the aftermath of this battle, King Perseus surrendered and was taken to Rome along with members of his court and other prisoners from the leading families of Macedon, including the historian Polybius.

It came about as a result of the pretender Andriscus's usurpation of the Macedonian throne, pretending to be the son of Perseus, the last King of Macedon, deposed by the Romans after the Third Macedonian War in 168 BC.

In most versions of the story, she was beheaded by the hero Perseus, who was sent to fetch her head by King Polydectes of Seriphus.

Just then, Haman appears, to ask the King to hang Mordechai, but before he can make this request, King Ahasuerus asks Haman what should be done for the man that the king wishes to honor.

The fox then asks Enlil King of the Gods, " If i bring Ninhursag before thee, what shall be my reward?

Gangleri ( described earlier in the book as King Gylfi in disguise ) asks High who the horse Sleipnir belongs to and what there is to tell about it.

* King Ethelbert of Kent asks for missionaries to visit his kingdom.

The King, Herod the Great, directs them to Bethlehem, and asks them to let him know who this king is when they find him.

After Hrímgerðr is turned to stone by the daylight, a prose narrative continues that Helgi, who is now king, goes to Sváva's father — King Eylimi — and asks for his daughter.

* Cleonymus, a Spartan of royal blood who has been outcast by his fellow Spartans, asks the King of Macedonia and Epirus, Pyrrhus, to attack Sparta and place him in power.

Cordelia is the youngest and most virtuous of King Leir of Briton's three daughters, however her virtue is such that it will not allow her to lie in flattering her father when he asks, so that he divides up the kingdom between the elder daughters and leaves Cordelia with nothing.

According to the account of John of Fordun's Chronicle of the Scottish Nation, written c. 1360, a certain " Maglo, King of the Britons " asks for aid from King Aydanus.

After a long wait, the King dies, and Thomas Seymour asks Catherine to marry him.

In Buck's words, the letter asks Norfolk " to be a mediator for her to the King, in behalf of the marriage propounded between them ", who, as she wrote, was her " onely joy and maker in this world ", and that she was his in heart and thought: " withall insinuating that the better part of February was past, and that she feared the Queen would never die.

Having kept his animosity with the Jain monks, he asks to be made King for 4 months during Chaturmas ( a holy time for the Jains ).

In all the Gospels, Pilate asks Jesus if he is King of the Jews and Jesus replies So you say.

* In the King of the Hill episode " Next of Shin ", somebody asks Hank Hill about peaches.

A simple-minded Fool asks the King why he suffers, and when the King says he is thirsty, the Fool gives him a cup of water to drink.

Just then, Haman appears, and King Ahasuerus asks him what should be done for the man that the King wishes to honor.

KQ6 primarily portrays the plan as Alhazred's plan to become the new King of the Green Isles ( who asks for advice from Shadrack ), and the Companion takes it further as the ultimate plan is to lead to the Land's destruction ( possibly instigated by Shadrack himself, with Abdul Alhazred being Mordack's underling ).

He talks of moving the castle and asks Sophie to blacken his name to the King.

Jolly Roger, an Invisible and an old friend of King Mob ’ s, asks them to help her steal an AIDS vaccine from Dulce Base.