Chaeronea, in ancient Greece, fortified town on Mt. Petrachus, guarding the entry into the northern plain of Boeotia. Controlled by the Boeotian city of Orchomenus (q.v.) in the 5th century bc, it was the scene of the battle in which Philip II of Macedon
even if this was also used to support his famous theory. The second passage from Diodoros (via Eusebios) below securely makes use of theSacred Inscriptionin connection with a picture of utopian life
In a similar way the second climber met his death, at which point the rest all quickly turned in flight. But since the cliff was precipitous they were all hurled headlong and perished. As a result of this, when the Romans sent ambassadors to negotiate a peace, they w...
Comments: Berossos (or: Berossus, if Latinized), whose Babylonian name was likely Bel-re’ushu, was a priest of Marduk and contemporary of Alexander of Macedon who wrote a now lost work on Babylonian Matters (Babyloniaka) around 300 BCE. The passages below...
(123-126) But no matter what part of this undertaking you [Philip of Macedon] are able to carry out, or only attempt to carry out, you cannot fail to attain distinguished glory. It will be well deserved if only you will make this the goal o...
(17) This city also met a reverse when it was forcibly seized by Alexander [of Macedon]. For Hekatomnos, the king of the Carians, had three sons, Mausolos, Hidrieus and Pixodaros, and two daughters [i.e. Artemisia and Ada]. Mausolos, the eldest...