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  Philip II Father of Alexander The Great, Silver Tetradrachm Coins
He was active in completing the subjugation of the Balkan hill-country to the west and north, and in reducing the Greek cities of the coast as far as the Hebrus (Maritza).
In 336 BC, when the invasion of Persia was in its very early stage, Philip was assassinated, and was succeeded on the throne of Macedon by his son Alexander the Great.
Philip II was the champion on the 106th Olympics, in 356 BC on single horse race (this coin).
www.realtreasures.com /philipii_king_of_macedonia.htm   (1559 words)

  
 Macedonia FAQ: Philip II of Macedonia
Philip II of Macedonia (382-336 BC), king of Macedonia (359-336 BC), son of Amyntas II and Eurydice was born in Pella, the capital of ancient Macedonia.
In 354 BC Philip conquered Methone, advanced into Thessaly but did not attempt to take the pass of Thermopylae in 352 BC because it was strongly guarded by the Athenians.
Philip's League of Corinth (337 BC) was intended to maintain and perpetuate a general peace (koine eirene); it was not a league at all, for it did not have the word symachia in it.
faq.macedonia.org /history/philip.html   (2236 words)

  
 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Scopas
BC, Greek sculptor of Athens, recorded as one of the sculptors who worked with Scopas on the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus.
BC until the Spartan defeat at the battle of Leuctra (371 BC), it was dominated by Sparta.
In 362 BC Tegea allied with its rival, Mantinea, against Sparta, but later it again opposed Mantinea.
www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Scopas   (437 words)

  
 History of Ancient Greece - Crystalinks
The period from 1600 BC to about 1100 BC is described in History of Mycenaean Greece known for the reign of King Agamemnon and the wars against Troy as narrated in the epics of Homer.
From 650 BC onwards, the aristocracies had to fight not to be overthrown and replaced by populist leaders called tyrants (tyrranoi), a word which did not necessarily have the modern meaning of oppressive dictators.
In 404 BC Athens sued for peace, and Sparta dictated a predictably stern settlement: Athens lost her city walls, her fleet, and all of her overseas possessions.
www.crystalinks.com /greekhistory.html   (3248 words)

  
 Painting of Ancient Sikyon
These miniature unique specimens of painting were found in a cave at the near-by village of Pitsa, in the district of Sikyon.
An illustration from a vase (jug) of the 7th century BC, made at Sikyon or possibly Corinth.
(before 6th BC Kraton of Sikyon is mentioned as the inventor of modern drawing and painting.
www.sikyon.com /Sicyon/Painting/spainting_eg.html   (1113 words)

  
 Qin Dynasty -- Political, Social, Cultural, Historical Analysis Of China -- Research Into Origins Of Huns, Uygurs, ...
BC 659-621) in escorting him to the throne at Jinn, with a promise of seceding to Qin 8 cities to the west of Yellow River.
In the autumn of 636 BC, the brother of Zhou King Xiangwang, Shu-dai, hired the Di barbarians in attacking the Zhou court.
In 473 B.C., the Wu Principality was annexed by Yüeh.
www.republicanchina.org /qin.html   (14793 words)

  
 Mythology and History of Chalkidiki (Halkidiki)
It wasn't until the eighth century BC that the population was expanded by the arrival of colonists from southern Greece, mainly from the city state of Halkis (hence Chalkidiki) in Evoia.
By the fifth century BC, the cities of Chalkidiki got sucked into the ongoing struggle between the Persians and Athens and its allies, known as the Persian Wars, described by Herodotus "the father of history".
Peace didn't last long, however, and in 352 BC Chalkidiki became involved in the Peloponnesian Wars between Athens and Sparti, and then in the ensuing power struggle with King Philip II in an attempt to halt his ambition to conquer all of Greece.
www.chalkidiki.com /mythology_history.html   (1026 words)

  
 The Seven Wonders of the World
352 BC), the 140-foot high monumental tomb of the Anatolian king Mausolus, completed by his wife—who was also his sister.
290 BC), a huge bronze statue, comparable in size to the Statue of Liberty, built on the island of Rhodes to commemorate a military victory.
The Greeks did not initially conceive of these monuments as "Wonders" (Greek thaumata) but rather as "sights" or "things to be seen" (theamata); in essence, they were the dramatic monuments that filled the travel guidebooks of the ancient world; the Lonely Planets or Rough Guides of their time.
www.amazeingart.com /seven-wonders/7-wonders.html   (894 words)

  
 Ancient Historical Facts quiz -- free game
In 356 BC, a man named Herostratus tried to seek immortality by burning one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
In 280 BC, the sculptor Chares built an immense bronze statue.
Around 1500-1200 BC, the first of the four Vedic texts was written in Sanskrit.
www.funtrivia.com /playquiz.cfm?qid=35085   (206 words)

  
 Paradox Interactive Forums - A History of Roman Expansion in the Italian Peninsula
The First North Oscan War 352-351 BC Marsi: 352 BC An early thaw in the mountains allowed the Consular Army consisting of Legions I and II to arrive outside the city of Marsi on 28th March.
Marsi: 315 BC Carpius, upon news of the two battles and crippling of his cavalry arm, sent for additional troops to be raised at Paeligni and sent to join him at Marsi.
Rome: 295 BC The Requisitions Committee reported to the Senate that it found that the only logical and viable solution to the military drain on the economy was to use the military in an offensive capacity in order to secure new resources in land, money, and slaves.
www.europa-universalis.com /forum/printthread.php?t=55095   (12565 words)

  
 352 BC
Centuries: 5th century BC - 4th century BC - 3rd century BC
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Prince Arrhidaeus of Macedonia, later King Philip III of Macedon (approximate date).
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/35/352_BC.html   (71 words)

  
 The economy of the Classical period   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Developments in the processing and commercialization of these raw materials led to the expansion of urban settlements and to flourishing trade.
Until approximately 352 BC Philip issued only silver coins, and permitted cities he conquered but did not incorporate into Macedonia, such as Philippi, to issue their own.
After 352 BC he began to mint gold staters (coins of the weight of two silver drachmas) which were called 'philippi' and followed the Attic standards of weight.
www.macedonian-heritage.gr /HellenicMacedonia/en/A1.2.2.html   (204 words)

  
 Greek Coins Index
A series of tetradrachms followed, which ended with the Carthaginian destruction of Himera in 409 B.C. The influence of Syracusan coinage is immediately evident in the obverse of this tetradrachm, which depicts the racing quadriga, its charioteer crowned by Nike, that had by this time become a standard type on Syracusan coins.
(G23) Philip III (Arrhidaeus) Ar Tetradrachm (circa 352 BC - December 25, 317 BC), king of Macedonia June 10, 323 BC -December 25, 317 BC, was the feeble-minded son of Philip II of Macedonia by Philinna of Larissa, a Thessalian wife, and half-brother of Alexander the Great.
After his brother's death in June 10, 323 BC he was chosen by the Macedonian army at Babylon to be nominal king and later this year he was joined in the throne by his nephew, the infant Alexander IV of Macedon.
www.wakeforestcoins.com /greekcoins/greekindex.htm   (1504 words)

  
 Phokians, 668-450 BC (I/52h), 450-275 BC (II/5f)
Phokaeans, Phocians), lay north of Boeotia and Thebes and was bounded by Locris and Aetolia to the west and Thessalia to the north.
In 356 BC, the Theban-dominated Amphictionic League imposed a large fine on Phokia for cultivating the Delphic territory of Cirrha.
In 280 BC, the Phokians aided the Aitolian League and the Boiotians in repelling an invasion by the Galatians under Brennos, who reached as far south as Delphi in hopes of plunder before being driven back into Macedonia.
www.fanaticus.org /DBA/armies/I52h.html   (2449 words)

  
 The Wargamer - Field of Crocus - 352 BCE
Despite its crucial importance in Greek history, and the role it played in the rise of Macedonia, relatively little of the details of the battle of the Field of Crocus have been recorded.
Despite the obscurity surrounding it, the battle was a culmination of the war between Macedon and Phocis for the control of Thessaly.
The Macedonian army of the mid-fourth century BC was a product of a number of reforms carried out by Philip himself.
www.wargamer.com /articles/crocus/crocus-1.asp   (635 words)

  
 Labranda - All About Turkey
The area that has been used as holy area in 6th and 5th centuries and then as temple terrace consisted of a single, small, artificial terrace.
4th century BC is the most important period of the temple.
In 355, during the sacrifice festival in Labranda, Mausolos escaped from an assassination towards him at the last moment.
www.allaboutturkey.com /ita/labranda.htm   (540 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope Saint Julius I
Through St. Athanasius, who remained in Rome several years subsequent to 339, the Egyptian monastic life became well-known in the capital, and the example of the hermits of the Egyptian deserts found many imitators in the Roman Church.
Julius died on 12 April, 352, and was buried in the catacombs of Calepodius on the Aurelian Way, and, very soon after his death, was honoured as a saint.
His body was later transported to S. Maria in Trastevere, the church which he had built.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/08561a.htm   (1119 words)

  
 GedBrowser
birt: bef 150 BC deat: Tyre; 125 BC marr: 148 BC; C-2nd, D-1st marr.
birt: bef 160 BC deat: 145 BC Cleopatra Thea of Egypt
birt: bef 160 BC deat: 145 BC marr: 150 BC, C - 1st marr.
www.kittymunson.com /GEDbrows/g1115.html   (191 words)

  
 Aegean Charter Yacht Sailing Holiday Cruising Greece and Turkey On Vacation
Nee Halikarnassus and 5th century BC birthplace of Herodotus, this town is
In the Greek style, the c370 BC theater above the harbor is the oldest in Turkey.
A 16-mile island hop from Pythagorion, off the wind, and venue of the 494 BC Battle of Lade between a Persian (Phoenician) fleet under Darius, on the one hand, and rebel Ionians from Asia Minor on the other.
www.tgeyacht.com /Itinerary4.htm   (2362 words)

  
 Greek & Roman Antiquities - Articles - Ancient History - Ancient Greece   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
In the Hellenistic years that followed the conquests of Alexander(323—146 BC), also known as Alexandrian, aspects of Hellenic civilisation expanded to Egypt and Bactria.
Marble statuette from the Cycladic islands, 3000 BC The Greeks are believed to have migrated southward into the Greek peninsula in several waves beginning in the late 3rd millennium BC, the last being the Dorian invasion.
To the east, the Aegean coast of Asia Minor was colonised first, followed by Cyprus and the coasts of Thrace, the Sea of Marmara and south coast of the Black Sea.
www.greekandromancoins.com /ancientgreece-a-9.html   (2954 words)

  
 Physics.org - Physics Evolution Text Version, Page 1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
In about 3000 BC, they produced a very early calendar that had 365 days in the year and in around 1470 BC, Thutmosis III put up the 'Needle of Cleopatra' in Hliopolis.
In 450 BC Anaxagoras was imprisoned for suggesting that the Sun was not a god but a hot stone.
Soon after Euclid, Eratosthenes (276 - 195 B.C.) developed the idea that the world is round and measured his latitude and the circumference of the Earth using the Sun's shadows.
www.physics.org /evolution/physics_evolution_text1.asp   (2578 words)

  
 4th century BC - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.tamu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
323 BC Alexander the Great conquers the Persian Empire, decline and depopulation of Ancient Greece with massive migration towards the conquered lands.
Philip II of Macedonia (born 382, reigned 359–336 BC).
Darius III of Persia, last King of the Achaemenid dynasty (born 380, reigned 359–330 BC).
en.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/4th_century_BC   (451 words)

  
 Legion XXIV - Time Line of Republican Rome
401 BC Battle of Cunaxa, First Persian Civil War, near Babylon, in which Cyrus of Persia was killed in an attempt (with a Spartan and Greek contingent) to seize the Persian throne from his brother Artaxerxes II.
207 BC Battle of Metaurus (south of Fano on Adriatic coast of Italy), 2nd Punic War (219-202) where Marcus Livius and Claudius Nero and Roman force of 50,000 defeated a Carthginian army (50,000 with war elephants) under Hasdrubal (brother of Hannibal) and was the turning point in expelling the Carthginians from Italy.
58 BC Julius Caesar appointed Proconsul-Governor of Cisalpine and Transalpine Gaul and Illyricum.
www.legionxxiv.org /republictimeline   (3710 words)

  
 Biblical Prophecy and Y2K?
Conventional chronology states that the Persians ruled Israel from 539 BC to 332 BC (207 years).
Rabbinic chronology has Koresh (Cyrus) defeating the Babylonians in 368 BC and Persian rule lasting 52 years (until 317 BC).
Conventional chronology is derived from the works of Greek historians from the Persian Period, from the works of the Egyptian astronomer Ptolomy in the second century ad, and from cuneiform inscriptions from ancient Persian palaces.
www.tzemach.org /articles/y2kproph.htm   (1008 words)

  
 Staying in Nelson, BC
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The next problem with the Talmudical chart is that they somehow come up with the year 422 BC as the destruction of the Temple.
The destruction occurred in 587-88 BC They then say that there were 17 Jubilees (using the 50 year cycle) from the destruction of the temple back to the entrance to Palestine placing the year of entrance at: (17 x 50 = 850 years ; 422 BC + 850 years = 1271 BC)
The third problem with the Talmudical chart is that it says we will not reach 6000 years, which is the estimated time of the first resurrection, until 2239 AD.
home.earthlink.net /~mcasale/SabJub.htm   (2096 words)

  
 outline_5   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Philip and the Sacred War: Stage I, Thessaly (353-352 BC)
Philip seized the grain fleet (late summer 340 BC)
Amphictyonic League gave Philip command of a League expedition against Amphissa in Central Greece (339 BC)
www.utexas.edu /courses/macedonia/outline_5.htm   (88 words)

  
 artnet.com: Resource Library: Aetion   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Pliny (Natural History, XXXV.78) placed Aetion in the 107th Olympiad (352–349 BC) and (XXXV.50) included him in a list of painters who used a palette restricted to four colours: white, yellow, red and fl.
None of Aetion’s work survives, but Pliny ascribed to him pictures of Dionysos, Tragedy and Comedy, Semiramis Rising from Slavery to Royal Power and an Old Woman Carrying Lamps and Attending a Bride, whose modesty was apparent.
His most famous painting depicted the Wedding of Alexander the Great and Roxane, and it was perhaps painted to celebrate it (327 BC).
www.artnet.com /library/00/0006/T000601.asp   (360 words)

  
 AlexanderTheBook.com - The Confessions of Alexander The Great: 33 Lessons in Greatness (356BC - 323BC)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
348 B.C. - An attempt by Aeschines to unite the Greek city-states against Philip fails.
342 B.C. - Olympia's brother Alexander succeeds to throne of Epirus with Philip's supports.
336 B.C. - Spring: Parmenio and Attalus sent to Asia Minor for preliminary military operations.
www.alexanderthebook.com /alexander_timeline.htm   (1259 words)

  
 Nelson, BC. - local businesses and web pages - copyright
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Skopelos, 198 Baker St, Nelson, BC, V1L 4H2, 250-352-1998
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