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	309 BC
		King Alexander IV of Macedon is murdered under orders of his Regent Cassander.
		Polyperchon[?] forms an army attempting to place Heracles, illegitimate son of Alexander the Great to the throne of Macedonia, but later changes allegiance to Cassander and murders Heracles.
		Heracles, illegitimate son of Alexander the Great and claimant to the throne of Macedonia.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/30/309_BC.html (136 words)

	Heracles (Macedon) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Heracles was the name of an illegitimate son born to Alexander the Great by his mistress Barsine, daughter of Satrap Artabazus of Phrygia in 327 BC.
		The first son to be born to Alexander, he was named after the mythical hero from whom the royal family of Macedon claimed its descent.
		Heracles and his mother had left the court shortly after his birth and were not involved in the conflicts and plots between Alexander's generals, centering on who would govern the various parts of the Empire pending the adulthood of Alexander's son.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Heracles_(Macedon) (342 words)

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		One of the Dioscuri, son of Leda and Tyndareus and the twin brother of Pollux (Polydeuces).
		Son of Heracles and Deianeira, ancestor of the Heraclids.
		Son of Daunus, king of Rutulians was slain by Aeneas in a combat for Lavinia and the land of Latium.
	mason.gmu.edu /~oarans/myth-data.html (3997 words)

	Alexander The Great - Crystalinks
		Alexander was the son of King Philip II of Macedon and of Epirote princess Olympias.
		At the ancient Phrygian capital of Gordium, Alexander "undid" the tangled Gordian knot, a feat said to await the future "king of Asia." According to the most vivid story, Alexander proclaimed that it did not matter how the knot was undone, and he hacked it apart with his sword.
		Alexander fought an epic battle against Porus, a ruler of a region in the Punjab in the Battle of Hydaspes in (326 BC).
	crystalinks.com /alexanderthegreat.html (3823 words)

	Major Battles of Alexander's Asian Campaign
		Alexander then ordered his soldiers to take their dinner, and having sent a few of his horsemen and archers forward to the Gates to recon noitre the road in the rear, he took the whole of his army and marched in the night to occupy the pass again.
		It was not dedicated to the Argive Heracles, the son of Alcmena; for this Heracles was honoured in Tyre many generations before Cadmus set out from Phoenicia and occupied Thebes, and before Semele, the daughter of Cadmus, was born, from whom Dionysus, the son of Zeus, was born.
		Alexander gave an amnesty to all those who fled for refuge into the temple of Heracles; among them being most of the Tyrian magistrates, including the king Azemilcus, as well as certain envoys from the Carthaginians, who had come to their mother-city to attend the sacrifice in honour of Heracles, according to an ancient custom.
	www.shsu.edu /~his_ncp/ArriCamp.html (13039 words)

	Polyperchon - WCD (Wiki Classical Dictionary) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Polyperchon was born as the son of a Macedonian nobleman named Simmias in the district of Tymphaea, the valley of the Upper Haliacmon.
		Alexander had died without successor: his half-brother Philip Arridaeus was a bastard and mentally unfit to rule, and his queen Roxane gave birth to a baby (Alexander) who would not be old enough to rule until 305.
		The results of the treaty were, as one could expect, the murder of Roxane and her son (D 19.105.2) at the order of Cassander, and the preparation of a new round of war.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /wcd/Polyperchon (1618 words)

	Ethics of Philip, Demosthenes, and Alexander by Sanderson Beck
		Alexander turned back and was pleased to encounter the massive Persian army estimated at 400,000 infantry and 100,000 cavalry away from a broad plain.
		Alexander learned of a plot to kill him and had the prominent Philotas tortured for not reporting it; after he confessed, he and his father Parmenio, the most experienced and powerful commander Alexander had, were killed.
		Alexander even had the generous Persian satrap Orsines killed, because he was resented by his homosexual lover Bagoas; Phradates was executed on mere suspicion of coveting the throne.
	www.san.beck.org /EC22-Alexander.html (14797 words)

	Alexander the Great (Alexander of Macedon) Biography
		Alexander III the Great, the King of Macedonia and conqueror of the Persian Empire is considered one of the greatest military geniuses of all times.
		Alexander was born in 356 BC in Pella, the ancient capital of Macedonia.
		Alexander tortured and executed the accused leader of the conspiracy, Parmenio's son Philotas, the commander of the cavalry.
	www.historyofmacedonia.org /AncientMacedonia/AlexandertheGreat.html (5650 words)

	The 'good' sources on Alexander the Great
		When Alexander was in Egypt, he sent his historian to Nubia, where he discovered the cause of the Nile flood; and in Babylon, Callisthenes supervised the translation of the Astronomical diaries, which were used by Callipus of Cyzicus to reform the Greek calendars.
		Alexander's mentally deficient brother Arridaeus was unable to prevent it, and his regent, general Perdiccas, came with an army to Egypt to discipline Ptolemy, but he was defeated.
		This, and not the conquest by Alexander, meant the formal end of the unity of the Achaemenid empire.
	www.livius.org /aj-al/alexander/alexander_z1b.html (3371 words)

	Alexander in the Oasis of Siwa
		Alexander's visit to the Oracle of Ammon at Siwa was, and still is considered as one of the most fascinating events of his reign.
		In it, Alexander is portrayed as one among the dead of the Underworld.
		Another interesting point that in Plutarch's account of Alexander's visit to the Ammoneion of Siwa, the author relates that historians before him had already challenged the accuracy of the alleged proclamation of Alexander as son of Ammon by the priests and had suggested their own interpretation of the disturbing rumors on the Macedonian king's divinity.
	www.greece.org /alexandria/alexander/Pages/siwa.html (1221 words)

	The Burial of Alexander the Great
		Ptolemy II Philadelphos (293-246 B.C.), the son and successor of Ptolemy I Soter, transported the body of Alexander from Memphis to Alexandria, the capital of his kingdom.
		C 794), who visited Alexander's tomb himself in the first century A.D. The subsequent mismanagement of Egyptian affairs by Ptolemy IX's successors, as well as the economic collapse of the kingdom, caused by an incompetent administration, made it impossible for the Ptolemies to restore Alexander's gold sarcophagus.
		In the Early Christian period, people appear to have had knowledge of Alexander's burial in Alexandria, as is evident from the depiction of Saint Sisois on icons in front of Alexander's corpse contemplating the tragedy of human mortality.
	www.greece.org /alexandria/alexander/Pages/aftermath.html (904 words)

	Nearchus
		Androtimus must have been an important man, because his son was educated together with the crown prince, Alexander, the son of king Philip of Macedonia (356-336).
		When Alexander invaded Asia in May 334, Nearchus was with him, and at the beginning of the next year, he was appointed as satrap of Lycia and Pamphylia.
		Alexander had started to give important commands to two people at the same time, who had to act as colleagues (e.g., Nearchus had shared the command of Alexander's Greek mercenaries with Asander and had been in charge of the Shield bearers with one Antiochus).
	www.livius.org /ne-nn/nearchus/nearchus.html (1881 words)

	Alexander's War Tactics at the Battle of Issus
		Alexander won the battle, but it was not a decisive victory for him.
		Alexander had taken his men on a forced march to Myriandrus, thinking this was where Darius was going (Fuller 154).
		Alexander put his cavalry, the Thessalians, allies of the Macedonians, and his Macedonians on the right, and other allies on the left.
	www.richeast.org /htwm/Greeks/Issus/Issus.html (1217 words)

	Alexander the Great - Page 001
		Alexander the Great was born in 356bc, the son of Philip II, king of Macedonia.
		Alexander "was acclaimed 'son of Zues' by the oracle at Didyma, the Sibyl at Erythrae..." (MWH, 137) and his apparent supernatural powers were affirmed at Gaugamela, at least in the eyes of most of his troops.
		Even if Alexander was backed by the gods, the extent of his accomplishment could never have been so great if he was not as intelligent as he was, both as a military leader as well as a political leader.
	www.publishit.com /Authors/G/Grady_Brian/AlexanderTheGreat/page001.html (342 words)

	Ø Wilson's Almanac free daily ezine \| Similarities: Jesus Attis Zoroaster Buddha Krishna Mithras Dionysos ...
		Horus was called: Resurrected One; 'Iusa', the 'ever-becoming son' of 'P'tah' or 'the Father'; 'the Way, the Truth and the Light'; 'Messiah'; 'Son of Man'; 'Son of God'; 'the Word'; 'the Word made Flesh'; 'Holy Child'; 'God’s Anointed Son'; 'Word of Truth'.
		The story about the birth of Elizabeth's son John (the Baptist), cousin of Jesus, corresponds with the story in the Krishna myth about the birth of the child of Nanda and his wife Yasoda.
		Alexander the Great was a real historical figure, a general and emperor, whose life was imbued with overtones of deification from Europe to parts of Western India.
	www.wilsonsalmanac.com /jesus_similar.html (5612 words)

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		Michaiah (Maachah), the queen-consort, outlived her husband [the king] and placed her son, Abijah, on the throne in prejudice of her late husband’s sons by his late first wife; and held a prominent place at court as queen-mother during the reign of her son, and lived on into the reign of her grandson.
		This Absessalom [son of Abishai, one of King David’s generals], was the tribal-chief or "sheikh" of the Hebrew Naphtali tribe, and, by wife Aibra [daughter of Shebuel (alive 1000BC), descendant of 1st Judge Moses], was father of Ahimaaz, one of King Solomon’s officials, who married Basemath, Solomon’s daughter.
		Ion, son of Kari, may be identified with Johanan, son of Kareah, the leader of the Jewish refugees, who was a prince of the old Jewish Davidic royal house.
	hometown.aol.com /rdavidh218/davidicdynasty.html (16138 words)

	Cassander (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		King of Macedonia, eldest son of Antipater, first appears at the court of Alexander at Babylon, where he defended his father against the accusations of his enemies.
		In 310 or 309 he also murdered Roxana and Alexander, the wife and son of Alexander the Great, whose natural son Heracles he bribed Polyperchon to poison.
		He had already connected himself with the royal family by marriage with Thessalonica, Alexander the Great's half-sister, and, having formed an alliance with Seleucus, Ptolemy and Lysimachus, against Antigonus, he became, on the defeat and death of Antigonus in 301, undisputed sovereign of Macedonia.
	www.nndb.com /people/267/000095979 (252 words)

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