Category: Ancient Greek generals

Category: Ancient Greek generals

Category: Ancient Greek generals

* 1834 – The generals in the Greek War of Independence stand trial for treason.

Daniel also foresees the Greek Empire being divided among the four generals upon the death of Alexander.

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Only the king could mint gold darics, important generals and satraps minted silver darics, the latter usually to recruit Greek mercenaries in Anatolia.

The Latin title dux ( the etymological root of duke ), which was phonetically rendered δουξ in Greek, was a common title for imperial generals in the Late Roman Empires ( west and east ), but note it was lower in rank than Comes ( the etymological root of Count ).

Stranded deep in enemy territory, the Spartan general Clearchus and most of the other Greek generals were subsequently killed by treachery.

Several other of Alexander's generals ( known together as the Diadochi ( Latin ; original Greek Διάδοχοι / Diadokhoi " successors ")) later conspired to remove Antigonus, and after defeating him the area was given to Thessalian general Lysimachus ( Lysimakhos ) ( circa 355 BC-281 BC ) in 301 BC as his share of the lands.

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In Homer's Iliad, he is found among the first rank of the Greek generals, leading his troops and engaging the enemy head-on, and escaping serious injury.

Extant biographies of Epaminondas universally describe him as one of the most talented generals ever produced by the Greek city-states.

Category: Ancient Greek generals

Category: Ancient Greek generals

Eight large paintings were placed in gilded frames above the stone pediments and busts, including three of the Stuart and French Royal family, one executed by Sir Godfrey Kneller of Lord Burlington and his sisters, and popular mythological scenes such as " Daphne and Apollo " and " The Judgment of Paris " Twelve antique busts of Roman and Greek figures, such as Emperors, poets, politicians and generals were also positioned on gilded brackets designed by Lord Burlington ..

Category: Ancient Greek generals

Category: Ancient Greek generals

His extant work on military matters, the Stratagems ( Latin: Strategemata ), is a collection of examples of military stratagems from Greek and Roman history, for the use of generals.

The five men had served as generals under Greek Macedonian King, Alexander the Great.

Category: Ancient Greek generals

Category: Ancient Greek generals

Category: Ancient Greek generals

Category: Ancient Greek generals

Category: Ancient Greek generals

The satrapies he fought may have included Eudemus, ruler in western Punjab until his departure in 317 BCE ; and Peithon, son of Agenor, ruler of the Greek colonies along the Indus until his departure for Babylon in 316 BCE.

Chandragupta ultimately occupied Northwestern India, in the territories formerly ruled by the Greeks, where he fought the satraps ( described as " Prefects " in Western sources ) left in place after Alexander ( Justin ), among whom may have been Eudemus, ruler in the western Punjab until his departure in 317 BCE or Peithon, son of Agenor, ruler of the Greek colonies along the Indus until his departure for Babylon in 316 BCE.

The Indian satrapies of the Punjab were left to the rule of Porus and Taxiles, who were confirmed again at the Treaty of Triparadisus in 321 BC, and remaining Greek troops in these satrapies were left under the command of general Eudemus.

Meanwhile, Peithon suppressed a revolt of Greek settlers in the eastern parts of the Empire, and Perdiccas and Eumenes subdued Cappadocia.

Meanwhile, Peithon suppressed a revolt of Greek settlers in the eastern parts of the empire, and Perdiccas and Eumenes subdued Cappadocia.

Another general also ruled over the Greek colonies of the Indus: Peithon, son of Agenor, until his departure for Babylon in 316 BC.

Peithon or Pithon ( Greek: Πείθων or Πίθων, about 355 – 314 BC ) was the son of Crateuas, a nobleman from Eordaia in western Macedonia.

Following his death and the breakup of his empire, Anatolia was ruled by a series of Hellenistic kingdoms, much of it being controlled by the Greek Seleucid Empire.

Her Latin origins and culture however led to creeping resentment from her Greek subjects ( who felt insulted enough by the late Manuel's Western tastes, let alone being ruled by his Western wife ), building up to an explosion of rioting that almost became a full civil war.

While Greek states had in the past often been ruled by tyrants, this was a form of arbitrary government that was on the decline.

After the death of Alexander the city ( now known as Akroinοn ( Ακροϊνόν ) or Nikopolis ( Νικόπολις ) in Ancient Greek ), was ruled by the Seleucids and the kings of Pergamon, then Rome and Byzantium.

In Classical Greek and Roman myth, various goddesses represented the Earth, seasons, crops and fertility, including Demeter and Persephone ; Ceres ; the Horae ( goddesses of the seasons ), and Proserpina ; and Hades ( Pluto ) who ruled the souls of dead in the Underworld.

Greek medicine was part of Greek culture, and Syrian Eastern Christians came in contact with it while the Eastern Roman Empire ( Byzantium ) ruled Syria and Western Mesopotamia, regions that were conquered from Byzantium in the 7th century by Arab Muslims.

The Bavarian Regents ruled until 1837, when at the insistence of Britain and France, they were recalled and Otto thereafter appointed Greek ministers, although Bavarian officials still ran most of the administration and the army.

The classical Latin alphabet or Roman alphabet evolved from a western variety of the Greek alphabet called the Cumaean alphabet, which was adopted and modified by the Etruscans who ruled early Rome.

Two monarchs have ruled simultaneously in some countries, as in the ancient Greek city-state of Sparta or the joint sovereignty of spouses or relatives ( e. g., William and Mary of Kingdom of England and Scotland, Peter and Ivan of Russia, Charles and Joanna of Castile, etc.

The King Midas who ruled Phrygia in the late 8th century BC is known from Greek and Assyrian sources.

A coin of Menander I, who ruled the eastern dominions of the divided Greek empire of Bactria and the modern Pakistani provinces of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa | Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Punjab ( Pakistan ) | Punjab and Sindh.

The Ptolemaic dynasty, (, sometimes also known as the Lagids or Lagides,, from the name of Ptolemy I's father, Lagus ) was a Macedonian Greek royal family which ruled the Ptolemaic Empire in Egypt during the Hellenistic period.

In all three kingdoms, warrior aristocracies ruled Meroitic populations from royal courts where functionaries bore Greek titles in emulation of the Byzantine court.

As with other Greek territories, Thera then was ruled by the Romans ;

The Seleucid dynasty or the Seleucidae ( from, ) was a Greek Macedonian royal family, founded by Seleucus I Nicator (" the Victor "), which ruled the Seleucid Kingdom centered in the Near East and regions of the Asian part of the earlier Achaemenid Persian Empire during the Hellenistic period.

In folklore, the powerful Pelopid family ruled many Greek states, one branch of which was the Atreid dynasty at Mycenae.

In Greek mythology, the Titans ( Greek: — Ti-tan ; plural: — Ti-tânes ) were a primeval race of powerful deities, descendants of Gaia ( Earth ) and Uranus ( Heaven ), that ruled during the legendary Golden Age.

After the Iron Age the periods are named after the various empires that ruled the region: Assyrian, Babylonian, Persian, Greek ( Hellenistic ) and Roman.

During the Greek War of Independence the Greek people fought for independence from the Ottoman Empire who ruled them.

In Greek mythology, the name of Illyria is aitiologically traced to Illyrius, the son of Cadmus and Harmonia, who eventually ruled Illyria and became the eponymous ancestor of the Illyrians.

She was a member of the Ptolemaic dynasty, a family of Greek origin that ruled Egypt after Alexander the Great's death during the Hellenistic period.

* Eumenes II, King of Pergamum who has ruled since 197 BC and a member of the Attalid dynasty ; a brilliant statesman, he has brought his small kingdom to the peak of its power and made Pergamum a great centre of Greek culture in Anatolia