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  Archelaus I of Macedon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Archelaus I was king of Macedon from 413 to 399 BC, following the death of Perdiccas II.
Archelaus reorganized the Olympia, a religious festival with musical and athletic competitions honoring Olympian Zeus and the Muses at Dion, the Olympia of Macedon.
The claim is that Archelaus had promised his beloved the hand of one of his daughters in marriage, and when he reneged on the promise the boy became enraged and acted.
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 YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> Pella   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The city was founded by Archelaus I of Macedon (413–399 BC) specifically to become the capital of his kingdom, to replace the older palace-city of Aigi (Vergina).
It was probably built as the capital of the kingdom by Archelaus I of Macedon, although there appears to be some possibility that it may have been Amyntas III of Macedon.
Pella is further mentioned by Polybius and Livy as the capital of Philip V of Macedon and of Perseus of Macedon during the Macedonian Wars.
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 Macedon - WCD (Wiki Classical Dictionary)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
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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 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.
The Kingdom of Macedon itself soon lost direct control of these vast Asian territories, but it retained its hegemony over Greece itself until defeated by the Roman Republic in the Macedonian Wars (215 - 148 BC).
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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 Archelaus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Archelaus (philosopher), pupil of Anaxagoras, 5th century BC Archelaus I of Macedon, reigned 413-399 BC Archelaus (general), fought in the First and Third Mithridatic Wars (1st century BC)
Herod Archelaus, ethnarch of Samaria, Judea, and Idumea, 4 BC-6 AD This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
If an internal link referred you to this page, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.
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 The Internet Classics Archive | Sylla by Plutarch
Archelaus, in particular, with his fleet, held absolute mastery of the sea, and was bringing into subjection the Cyclades, and all the other islands as far as Malea, and had taken Euboea itself.
As Archelaus was extending the right wing to encompass the enemy, Hortensius with his cohorts came down in force, with intention to charge him in the flank.
For Archelaus being taken dangerously ill at Larissa, he stopped the march of the army, and took care of him, as if he had been one of his own captains, or his colleague in command.
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 Archelaus, - SmugMug - gravematter : Salisbury Plains Cemetery est. 1640 : In
Herod Archelaus son and principal heir of Herod I the Great as king of Judaea, deposed by Rome because of his unpopularity with the Jews.
Archelaus (philosopher) Archelaus was a Greek philosopher of the 5th century BCE, born probably in Athens, though Diogenes Laërtius (ii.
Archelaus Lewis Hamblen was born on 25 July 1894 and died on 8 October 1971.
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 glbtq >> social sciences >> Philip II, King of Macedon
Philip II, King of Macedon (382-336 B. Philip, the father of Alexander the Great, was a Macedonian prince who spent three of his formative teenage years in Thebes as a military hostage.
Returning to Macedon in 364, he seized the throne five years later from his infant nephew and began his successful career as a soldier and diplomat.
Archelaus, who had ruled Macedon half a century earlier, was a patron of the arts who had brought the painter Zeuxis to his court and the Athenian playwrights Euripides and Agathon.
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 Macedon
Macedon was made up of the gathering of several tribes under the leadership of a single king who kept his authority with the help of his army, and its borders didn't change much during the two centuries we are dealing with until the times of Philip and Alexander the Great.
But, when, after the battle of Mantinea in 418, Argos signed a peace treaty with Sparta, Perdiccas, who traced his origins to Argos, was on their side (Thucydides, V, 80), though, by 414, he seemed to be again fighting on the side of the Athenians (Thucydides, VII, 9).
With Archelaus (see entry under his name), who remained more faithful to the alliance with Athens, the court of Pella became a brilliant place which attracted many talented artists.
plato-dialogues.org /tools/loc/macedon.htm   (674 words)

  
 Pella - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Pella was the palace-capital of ancient Macedon since the times of Archelaus I of Macedon, the seat of Philip II of Macedon and of Alexander the Great, his son.
The word Pella is a form of the Doric Greek word Apella, originally meaning a ceremonial location were decisions were made.
The city was founded by Archelaus I specifically to become the capital of his kingdom.
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 Ancient Macedonia History » History of Macedonia
Archelaus of Macedonia and his portrayal as ‘Barbarian’
Archelaos II, king of Macedon from circa 413 to 399 BC, is famous, or rather infamous, for the unfavourable judgement passed on him by Plato in the Gorgias.
He was irked, in other words, to discover that for Archelaus he was just another sexual conquest and not an object of passionate love.
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Pella The city-state of Pella was the palace-capital of ancient Macedon, (now in Greece), removed from the older palace-city of Aigi (Vergina) by king Archelaus I of Macedon, (413–399 BC), who invited the painter Zeuxis, the greatest painter of the time, to decorate it.
Achilles.]] Alexander was the son of King Philip II of Macedon and of Epirote princess Olympias.
He fathered one child, Alexander IV of Macedon, born by Roxana shortly after his death in 323 BC, and he also had in 327 BC a son, (Heracles), by his concubine Barsine, the daughter of satrap Artabazus of Phrygia.
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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’.
Archelaus I, B.C. From the beginning of the fifth century we have seen that the Phoenician stater (wt.
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 Greek Poets - Crystalinks
Pausanias followed Agathon to the court of Archelaus, king of Macedon, who was recruiting playwrights.
His intimacy with Aristophanes doubtless saved him from many well-deserved strictures, though in one of his comedies, the latter burlesques his flowery style, representing him as a delicate and effeminate youth, and it may be only for the sake of punning on his name that he makes Dionysus call him a noble poet.
Agathon was a friend of Euripides, accompanying him to the court of Archelaus of Macedon, where he died about 402 BCE.
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 Life of Euripides
Euripides fell under the disfavor of his fellow citizens, probably on account of his alleged skepticism concerning the gods.
He retired to the court of Archelaus, king of Macedon, by whom he was treated with consideration and affection.
At his death he was mourned by the king, who, refusing the request of the Athenians that his remains be carried back to the Greek city, buried him with much splendor within his own dominions.
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 Archelaus
, was king of Macedon from the death of his father Perdiccas II in 413 to around 400.
Being in fact the son of the king by a slave woman, he was not supposed to inherit the kingship and had to dispose of his uncle and his half-brother, the legitimate successor, by having them assassinated, in order to reach the throne (as Polus tells us in the above quoted section).
During Archelaus' reign, Macedon was in good terms with Athens.
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 historical macedonia
Archelaus of Macedon      Thracymachus had used once an accusation, while speaking on behalf of Lariseans,calling the king Archelaos of Macedon, barbarian.
His quote exactly was : “Shall we being Greeks, Be  slaves to Archelaus, a Barbarian?” Since then, propagandists of FYROM used this quote as…an alledged proof of the “non-greekness” of Macedonians, as they claim.
It was found in Pella (at the time capital of Macedon) in 1986; it was published in the Hellenic Dialectology Journal in 1993.
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 History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Originally a semi barbarous and fragmented power, Macedon became a tributary to Persia under the Persian kings Darius I and Xerxes I and thereafter struggled to maintain itself against Thracians and other barbarians and against the Greek cities of the Chalcidice (the promontory southeast of modern Salonika) as well as Sparta and Athens.
A new stage began with Archelaus (399 BC), who centralized the kingdom with a system of roads and forts; he also fostered the hellenization of his people by inviting famous Greek artists, Euripides among them, to his court.
Contending with the rival kingdoms and with newly formed Greek federal leagues, Macedonia remained the dominant power in Greece until conquered by Rome in a series of wars waged by Philip V and his son Perseus.
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 Macedonia - International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
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.
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).
Secular History: Hogarth, Philip and Alexander of Macedon, London, 1897, and the histories of the Hellenistic period by Holm, Niese, Droysen and Kaerst.
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 THE IPHIGENIA CYCLE
Such exile was a practical necessity in the case of a critical provacatuer like Euripides: barely a few years later, Athens rid itself more harshly of another such barbed commentator, when Socrates was executed for corrupting the city's youth with his skepticism.
Removed as Macedon may have been, the king was an eager patron of the humanities and had attracted to his court notable painters, poets, and other artists.
While at Archelaus' court, he wrote the Bacchae--which still stands as the monument to his towering genius--and Iphigenia at Aulis, in which he explored the antecedents to the Trojan War and the bloody family saga he had closed in his earlier Iphigenia in Tauris.
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Herod Archelaus, 4BC-AD 6, AJC 6a; Agrippa I,37-44, AJC 11; Coponius, 6-9, AJC 1; M. Ambibulus, 9-12, AJC 3; Valerius Gratus, 15-26, AJC 12, 16, 17; Pontius Pilatus, 26-36, AJC 23; Antonius...
Judaea The Herodians Estimate: CHF 275.00 Lot of 12 bronze coins of Herod Archelaus.
Asia Minor Cappadocia Archelaus, King of Cappadocia, 36 B.CA.D. Estimate: CHF 2'500.00 Drachm (Silver, 3.59 g 12), Caesarea, year 22, 15/14.
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 Archelaus I of Macedon
Archelaus is known for the sweeping changes he made in state administration, the military, and commerce.
Archelaus reorganized the Olympia a religious festival with musical and athletic competitions honoring Olympian Zeus and the Muses at Dion, the Olympia of Macedonia.
The greatest athletes and artists of Greece came to Macedonia to participate in this event.
www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/Bios/ArchelausIOfMacedon.html   (422 words)

  
 Sylla
Of his sons, one residing in Pontus and Bosporus held his ancient realm as far as the deserts beyond the lake Mæotis, without molestation; while Ariarathes, another, was reducing Thrace and Macedon, with a great army, to obedience.
For here Bruttius Sura, lieutenant to Sentius, governor of Macedon, a man of singular valour and prudence, met him, and, though he came like a torrent pouring over Boeotia, made stout resistance, and thrice giving him battle near Chæronea, repulsed and forced him back to the sea.
Archelaus, driven from hence, bent his forces upon Chæronea.
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 Alexander The Great History Greece Aristotle Persia Egypt Alexandria   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Alexander was the son of King Philip II of Macedon and of Epirote princess Olympias.
Olympias supported her grandson, the son of Alexander the Great, Alexander IV of Macedon, and allied with Polyperchon in 317 BC, by whom Antipater had been succeeded in 319 BC.
Aristotle was born at Stageira, a colony of Andros on the Macedonian peninsula of Chalcidice in 384 BC.
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 Euripides - Penguin Classics Authors - Penguin Classics
His work was controversial already in his lifetime, and he himself was regarded as a ‘clever’ poet, associated with philosophers and other intellectuals.
Towards the end of his life he went to live at the court of Archelaus, king of Macedon.
It was during his time there that he wrote what many consider his greates work, the Bacchae.
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 Archelaos of Macedon - the "Barbarian" - Macedonia Forum
It is known that Thracymachus had said once a quote on behalf of Lariseans calling the king Archelaos of Macedon, a barbarian.
Shall we being Greeks, be slaves to Archelaus, a barbarian?
As usual the well-known propagandists of FYROM used even this quote as...a proof of the "non-greekness" of Macedonians as they claim.
www.macedoniaontheweb.com /forum/anti-greek-alexander-propaganda/617-archelaos-macedon-barbarian.html#post4401   (523 words)

  
 Dionysus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Euripides wrote a tale concerning the destructive nature of Dionysus in his play entitled The Bacchae.
Since Euripides wrote this play while in the court of King Archelaus of Macedon, some scholars believe that the cult of Dionysus was malicious in Macedon but benign in Athens.
In the play, Dionysus returns to his birthplace, Thebes, ruled by his cousin, Pentheus.
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 Dionysus
The most famous account of this is that of Euripides in his play the Bacchae.
He wrote this play while in the court of King Archelaus of Macedon, and nowhere do we see Dionysus more destructive and his worship more dangerous than in this play.
Scholars have speculated not unreasonably that in Macedon Euripides discovered a more extreme form of the religion of Dionysus being practiced than the more civil, quiet forms in Athens.
www.pantheon.org /mythica/articles/d/dionysus.html   (555 words)

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