Returning to the site in 2023, I explored the site with a great deal more knowledge of what I was looking at, but also with an awareness of the poignant reason for the creation of the site and the Nemean Games, one of the four Crown Games of Ancient Greece, which were held here. Fi...
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The king-lists of the Sumerians, the oldest civilization in Mesopotamia, not only presented the order of rulers but described shifts in power as various kings were “smitten with weapons” and overthrown. The Sumerians were also capable of weaving events into a narrative. A Sumerian stela, or...
List of Seleukid Kings in Alphabetical Order How to Use this Section Clicking on the King’s name will search for him in my eBay store,http://stores.ebay.com/Authentic-Ancient-Greek-Roman-Coins. Clicking on the Research link will take you to a free online research site with many pictures...
Mesopotamia is scarcely mentioned in the Greek sources relating to the Seleucids, because the Seleucid rulers were occupied with Greece and Anatolia and with wars with the Ptolemies ofEgyptinPalestineand Syria. Even the political division of Mesopotamia is uncertain, especially since Alexander, Seleucu...
The end of the Peloponnesian War left Sparta the master of Greece, but the narrow outlook of the Spartan warrior elite did not suit them to this role. Within a few years the democratic party regained power in Athens and other cities. In 395 BC the Spartan rulers removed Lysander from offic...
When discussing ancient civilizations, one of the most prominent has to be the Greek civilization. Under the rule of various rulers, Greece saw a change from a pagan worshiping society that was almost abolished, to an enduring civilization that strived on philosophy, and intellectual thought. As...
in the Temple courtyard would have for exchange for the Great Temple tax that would be paid. The silver content of these coin types was uniform throughout their history of being minted, and because of the absence of living human rulers on it, it was allowed to be used in the Great ...
Local rulers continued to be in power (17th Dynasty) in Thebes. The pharaohs Sekenenre and Kamose of the 17th Dynasty embarked on a war of liberation, which was completed by their successor, the founder of the 18th Dynasty, Ahmose I (Amasis), who drove the Hyksos out of Egypt in ...
virtues. Plato considered wisdom the virtue of reason and believed that being truly virtuous is possible only when one acts on reason. In ancient Greek philosophy, wisdom is regarded as the virtue of rulers, since it enables rulers to take advice and then act prudently, based on their own ...