His parents were King Philip II of Macedon and Olympias of Epirus, the daughter of Neoptolemus I, the king of Epirus. In his early years, Alexander was raised by his nurse and was tutored by the strict Leonidas of Epirus, a relative of his mother. He was raised in the manner of ...
A few famous Belgian companies : Côte d'Or, Neuhaus, Godiva, Guylian, Leonidas, Pierre Marcolini, Wittamer, Debailleul, etc. : chocolate makers. Rombouts and Jacqmotte : coffee manufacturers AB Inbev : beer manufacturer, owning over 200 brands worldwide, including the Belgian Stella Artois...
Its Greek linguistic roots are connected to a Spartan king named Leonidas. Scientific Name All sea lions belong to the taxonomic family of Otariidae, which means “little ear.” ©Daniel Avram/Shutterstock.com All sea lions belong to the taxonomic family of Otariidae, which means “little ...
King Leonidas of Sparta led an alliance of Greek city-states to hold a narrow mountain passage called Thermoplyae against the massive Persian military in the Battle of Thermoplyae in 480 B.C. The Spartan king had an army of 7,100 men to fight an estimated 200,000 Persian troops. Leonida...
©Leonidas Santana/Shutterstock.com The history of Zebu cattle goes back thousands, even millions, of years. They were bred from the wild Asian or Indian aurochs, considered the ancestors of modern cattle. Fossil evidence indicates that the aurochs evolved from Bos acutifrons, which existed two...
while Athens and Sparta led the resistance with a number of other city-states behind them. Before invading, Xerxes implored the Spartan king Leonidas to surrender his arms. Leonidas famously replied, “Come and take them” (“Molon labe”). Xerxes intended to do just that and thus moved towa...
son of the other king, Leonidas II. She, however, won him to the need for revolution. In this she was supported by Cleomenes’Stoictutor Sphaerus, who seems to have read a remarkable utopian narrative composedc.250 by an otherwise obscure author named Iambulus. Cleomenes came to the throne...
A“golden-green leaf thrown into the Sea” and a land of “wild weather and volcanoes,” in the words of the Greek Cypriot poet Leonidas Malenis, Cypruscomprisestall mountains, fertile valleys, and wide beaches. Settled for more than 10 millennia, Cyprus stands at a cultural, linguistic, an...
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Gerard Butler, Scottish actor, known for his rugged masculinity and charm, who often appeared as legendary literary and historical figures, notably Leonidas in 300 (2006), the movie that made him an international star. He went on to play the lead in many