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  User talk:Aeropus I of Macedon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Aeropus I of Macedon 06:32, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)
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 List of kings of Macedon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Macedon (also known as Macedonia) was an ancient kingdom in the present-day territory of region Macedonia in northern Greece and a small part of the Republic of Macedonia, inhabited by the Ancient Macedonians.
Perdiccas, Regent of Macedon 323-321 BC Antipater, Regent of Macedon 321-319 BC Polyperchon, Regent of Macedon 319-317 BC Cassander, Regent of Macedon 317-306 BC edit]
This led to the Fourth Macedonian War, in which Andriscus was defeated by the Romans, and Macedon annexed to Rome in 148 BC.
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 Kings of Macedon
Macedon was an ancient kingdom in what is now northern Greece, inhabited by a semi-Hellenized people who were seen by the Greeks themselves as close king.
The Kingdom of Macedon itself soon lost these vast Asian territories, but it retained its hegemony over Greece itself until defeated by the Romans in a series of wars.
This led to the Fourth Macedonian War, in which Andriscus was defeated by the Romans, and Macedon annexed to Rome.
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 Wikipedia: List of ancient Greeks
Berenice II of Egypt - Ptolemaic ruler of Egypt
Hiero II of Syracuse - tyrant of Syracuse
Ptolemy II of Egypt - Ptolemaic ruler of Egypt
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Antigonus was the nephew of Antigonus II Gonatas.
On death of Demetrius II of Macedon (229 BC), Antigonus became guardian of Demetrius II's son, Philip.
Perdiccas III's infant heir was deposed by Amyntas' third son, Philip II of Macedon, who made himself king and ushered in a period of Macedonian dominance of Greece.
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 Alexander the Great - MSN Encarta
Alexander succeeded to the throne of Macedon following the assassination of his father, Philip II, in the summer of 336 bc.
Macedon was the kingdom located in the region known in ancient times as Macedonia, which was roughly coterminous with the modern Greek province of Macedonia, but extended also into the southern parts of the present Balkan state of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.
It was said that Olympias honoured the corpse of Pausanias, exposed on a gibbet, by placing a gold crown on it, and that she poured libations there on every anniversary of the murder.
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 Macedon - WCD (Wiki Classical Dictionary)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
The poet Hesiod described "Macedon" as a son of Zeus and grandson of Deucalion, thus marking the land and its people as outlying tribes of the Greek world in his view.
The last Antigonid king, Perseus, was defeated in 168 BC by the Romans, who divided the country into four self-governing republics on the model of their own constitution; when this policy failed, they reorganised the territory into the province of Macedonia in 146 BC.
Macedon was divided between the Upper, mountainous regions, and the Lower regions of the Emathian Plain, including the settlements on the Thermaic Gulf.
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 Macedonia
He and his son and grandson, Perdiccas II and Archelaus, did much to consolidate Macedonian power, but the death of Archelaus (399 BC) was followed by 40 years of disunion and weakness.
In 215 King Philip V, son of Demetrius II and successor of Antigonus Doson (229-220 BC), formed an alliance with Hannibal, who had defeated the Roman forces at Lake Trasimene (217) and at Cannae (216), and set about trying to recover Illyria.
The Second Macedonian War, caused by a combined attack of Antiochus III of Syria and Philip of Macedon on Egypt, broke out in 200 and ended 3 years later in the crushing defeat of Philip's forces by T. Quinctius Flamininus at Cynoscephalae in Thessaly (compare 1 Macc 8:5).
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 Ancient coins of Macedon
Aegae (later Edessa) was the original capital of the kingdom of Macedon, and the burial-place of its kings.
The early silver coins conjecturally attributed to it recall, in their type of the kneeling he-goat, the story told of Karanos its founder, a brother of Pheidon, king of Argos, who was directed by an oracle ‘to seek an empire by the guidance of goats’.
After the defeat of Perseus the issue of silver coins in Macedon was prohibited by the Romans, and it was not until ten years later, B.C. 158, that it was again permitted.
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 Macedonian Empire - Simple English Wikipedia
Macedon or Macedonia (from Greek Μακεδονία)) was an ancient Greek kingdom in the north of ancient Greece.
This was known as the Hellenistic period of Greek history.
Antipater, Regent of Macedon 334-319 BC Philip III Arrhidaeus 323-317 BC Alexander IV 323-310 BC
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 Historia Numorum Ancient Coins VII. Index Rerum
Magarsis, Mallus, 724; Tarsus, 732; Demetrius II of Syria, 766-768; Antiochus VII, 767.
Perseus, Philip V of Macedon, 233, 891; Perseus of Macedon, 235; Larissa Cremaste, 300; Argos, 440; Seriphos, 490; Mithradates IV, 501; Cities of Pontus, 502; Cyzicus, 526; Astypalaea, 631; Hierocaesareia, 651; Sebaste Phr., 684; Iconium, 713; Aegeae, 716; Anemurium, 717; Iotape, 721; Tarsus, 733; Tyana, 753; Ptolemaïs Ace, 793, 794; Joppa, 803.
Sandan, Tarsus, 732; Alexander Bala, 765; Antiochus VII, 767; Demetrius II, 768; Alexander II, 769; Cleopatra and Antiochus VIII, 769; Antiochus VIII, 770; Antiochus IX, 771.
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 Wikipedia: Kings of Macedon
Ptolemy I of Macedon (also known as Ptolemy Alorites)
Demetrius II (also known as Demetrius II Aetolicus)
After Perseus's defeat at the Battle of Pydna in 168 BC, Macedon was divided into four republics under Roman domination.
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 pothos.org - All about Alexander the Great   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
The sons of Aeropus would believe that, with themselves as Regents and the "grandchild" of Attalus (and thus, Parmenion) on the throne, an alliance could be built between the most powerful factions.
They may have also felt that, in the event of failure, the sons of Aeropus would be found guilty and be executed, leaving no trail back to them and leaving the throne open for the taking.
Aeropus’ sons were of the Royal House of Macedon and could have ruled with Persian backing.
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Similarly, the reference of the text to "those seized for labor" is probably to the ancient system of the corvée, by which local peasants could be pressed into labor for public works projects, like the pyramids, especially during the season of the Flood, when work in the fields would have been impossible anyway.
Alyattes I Myrsus (Meles) Candaules Mermnadae [110]Gyges 685-644 Ardys II 644-615 Sadyattes 615-610 Alyattes II 610-560 Battle of the Eclipse, 585 Croesus 560-547 The Medes expanded their domain at the expense of Anatolian kingdoms, culminating in the Battle of the Eclipse on 28 May 585 BC with the Lydians.
King Agesilaus II was given a banquet by the King of Egypt (this would have been Takhôs of the [146]XXX Dynasty).
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 Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2003.04.18
He then examines the cases of Alexander son of Aeropus, Philip the Acarnanian, the 'Philotas affair', the 'Cleitus affair', the conspiracy of the pages, Alexander's behaviour at the Hyphasis and at the city of the Malli, and, finally, the conspiracies regarding Alexander's death.
A similar arrangement of figures is found on the battered fresco of Tomb II at Vergina.
So the widely held though not universally accepted opinion that the tomb covered the remains of Philip II is demolished.
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 The Pre-Slavic Period
However, his two representatives, and later the representatives of Alexander of Macedon, were always addressed as "those of Philip" and "those of Alexander", while all others were addressed according to their tribal attributes or their towns or origin.
Alexander of Macedon, son of Philip, came from the land of Hatayans and defeated Darius, king of Persia and India and got himself affirmed in his place in Hellas.
The son of Philip II and Olympias, daughter of an Epirote king, he was born in Pella in 356 B.C. and ascended to the Macedonian throne at the age of 20, after his father's assassination.
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 MAACAH
That the author of 1 Maccabees aims at giving a correct narrative, and that on the whole his account is correct, is the opinion of practically all scholars.
The aim of the writer is evidently historical and patriotic, yet his attitude toward religious questions is clearly indicated, both directly and indirectly.
On the other hand, the account of the celestial appearances in 2 Macc 3:24 ff; 11:8, etc., and the description in 6:18 ff of the martyrdom of Eleazar the scribe and of the 7 brethren and their mother, carry on their face the marks of their legendary and unhistorical character.
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 Inca Empire
In the north the new king of Macedon, Philip II, united the manpower and resources of his kingdom and trained a new model army.
Philip II, father of Alexander the Great, extended his dominion eastward to the shores of Euxine.
A convenient place to mark the turning point is the death of Emperor Basil II in 1025.
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 Ancient Greek Rulers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
The area had been divided into several small nations which were rarely at peace with each other but was united under one king by the mid C4th BC.
Philip II and his son Alexander III (the Great) conquered a huge empire and spread Hellenic culture throughout the Mediterranean and Asia.
There were normally two dynasties of kings, one to rule at home and one to command the army abroad.
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 Greece - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A charismatic exiled politician, Konstantinos Karamanlis, who had also been premier between 1955 and 1963, returned from Paris as interim prime minister and later gained re-election for two further terms at the head of the conservative Nea Dimokratia party, which he founded.
Another previously exiled politician, Andreas Papandreou also returned and founded the socialist PASOK party, which won the elections in 1981 and dominated the country's political course for almost two decades.
During World War II, when Greece was occupied by Nazi Germany, 86% of the Greek Jews were murdered and only a minority survived and most of them have emigrated to Israel.
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 Macedonia - International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
But we find a well-marked tradition in ancient times that the race comprised a Hellenic element and a non-Hellenic, though Aryan, element, closely akin to the Phrygian and other Thracian stocks.
Herodotus (viii.137-39) traces the royal line from Perdiccas I through Argaeus, Philip I, Aeropus, Alcetas and Amyntas I to Alexander I, who was king at the time of the Persian invasions of Greece.
The later history of the Macedonian churches, together with lists of all their known bishops, will be found in Le Quien, Oriens Christianus, II, 1; III, 1089 1045 f.
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 Ancient Macedonia
The two elder brothers, Gauanes and Aeropus, stood aghast at the reply, and did nothing; but the boy, who had a knife in his hand, made a mark with it round the sunshine on the floor of the room, and said, 'O king!
Borza, in the beginning of chapter 5, in his book, "In the Shadow of Olympus, The Emergence of Macedon" describes the Macedonian kingdom during the reign of Amyntas I as weak, thinly populated, and surviving in the absence of external threat.
Eugene N. Borza, In the Shadow of Olympus, The Emergence of Macedon.
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 Argead dynasty - Simple English Wikipedia
Famous kings included Philip II of Macedonia who joined the Greeks together and Alexander the Great who defeated the Persian Empire and created the Empire of Alexander.
The Argead dynasty ended during the wars of the Diadochi when Alexander IV of Macedon and his mother Roxana were murdered.
This page was last changed at 19:10, 27 July 2006.
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171-138), Parthia, Persia, etc. 15.3.3.6 Phraates II (c.
139 B.C.), Kings of Armenia, Armenia, Persia, etc. 15.3.4.2.5 Tigranes I (94-56 B.C.), Kings of Armenia, Armenia, Persia, etc. 15.3.4.2.6 Artavazdes I (36-34 B.C.), Kings of Armenia, Armenia, Persia, etc. 15.3.4.2.7 Tigranes II (c.
350-400 A.D.), Axum, Ethiopia, Axumite kings 16.4.1.7 Wazeba II (c.
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 SFAGN: Articles, Studies and Miscellanea / The End of the Seleucids   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Indeed, so impressive was their progress, that Phraates II, the Parthian king, released his royal captive Demetrius and sent him back to Syria to establish a government in opposition to his brother.
Expelled to Cyprus by the partisans of Cleopatra (II), he took with him, as his second wife, another Cleopatra (III), the daughter of the former and Ptolemy VI, and therefore a sister of Cleopatra Thea.
He appealed to Ptolemy, Alexander II, then ruling Cyprus, for ransom and the king indeed granted the request, but the sum he sent was so small that the pirates scorned it and sent it back.
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 Kings Of Macedon info here at en.anytargetedresults.info   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Kings Of Macedon information found on the web..
In the 4th century BC he built a huge empire out of Greece, Egypt, Persia, and parts of India.
Sexy Pics Teen Tgp He was not without hopes of inducing the Athenians to join the Persian alliance, and he despatched Alexander, king of Macedon, to conciliate the Athenians, now partially re-established in their dilapidated city.
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 Greece: Shaw's Outline of Ancient History
Alexander II son of Amyntas III (370-368) Marmor Par.
Kingdom of the Antigonids in Macedon 323-168 BCE
Perseus of Macedon, son of Philip V 179-168
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 Justin's Epitome of Trogus Pompeius' History of the World   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
How the Romans made war against the king of Macedon, Perseus, son of Philip; on whose capture Epirus was destroyed.
For your approbation is sufficient for me for the present, with the expectation of receiving from posterity, when the malice of detraction has died away, an ample testimony to my diligence.
Death of Xerxes; Artaxerxes; Artabanus, I.----Origin of the wars between the Athenians and Lacedaemonians; Lycurgus and the Spartan polity, II.
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