Ancient Greece

Ancient Greece

History of Ancient Greece.

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Ancient Greece

Influential Athenian sculptor of the mid-4th century BC whose masterpiece, a statue of the goddess Aphrodite, broke with convention by its show of nudity. Rejected by the more conservative cities of ...

Battle of Megalopolis

History; Ancient Greece

The Battle of Megalopolis was a battle near Megapolis, Greece in 331 BC between Spartan led forces commanded by King Agis III and Macedonia under command of Alexander's regent Antipater. It was a ...

Siege ofTyre

History; Ancient Greece

The Siege of Tyre was a siege of the city of Tyre, a strategic coastal Persian base on the Mediterranean Sea, ordered by Alexander the Great in 332 BC. The Macedonian army was unable to capture the ...

Battle of the Uxian Defile

History; Ancient Greece

The Battle of Uxian Defile was a battle between Alexander the Great and the Uxian tribe of the Persian Empire on the mountain range between the key Persian cities of Susa and Persepolis in December, ...

Siege of Halicarnassus

History; Ancient Greece

The Siege of Halicarnassus was fought between Alexander the Great and Orontobates and Memnon of Rhodes of the Persian Empirein in Halicarnassus, now Bodrum, Turkey in 334 BC . With the battle ...

Battle of Jaxartes

History; Ancient Greece

The Battle of Jaxartes was a battle fought by Alexander the Great and his Macedonian army against the Scythians at the Syr Darya River, the supposed border river of Alexanders' new Empire in 329, ...

Siege of Gaza

History; Ancient Greece

The Siege of Gaza was a siege ordered by Alexander the Great of the city Gaza controlled by Persian Empire in October 332 BC. Batis, the commander of the fortress of Gaza, refused to surrender to ...