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Essays on Alexander the Great |
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currently on display in Istanbul, Archeological Museum. The man who was buried inside was probably Alexander's ally Abdalonymus of Sidon (333-312)
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lexander the Great (*356; r. 336-323):
the Macedonian
king who defeated his Persian colleague Darius
III Codomannus and conquered the Achaemenid
Empire. During his campaigns, Alexander visited a.o. Egypt, Babylonia,
Persis, Media,
Bactria,
the Punjab, and the valley of the Indus. In the second half of his reign,
he had to find a way to rule his newly conquered countries. Therefore,
he made Babylon
his capital and introduced the oriental court ceremonial, which caused
great tensions with his Macedonian and Greek officers.
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