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CHILIARCH AT THE COURTS OF THE ACHEMENID AND ALEXANDER THE GREAT
The office of chiliarch (from ancient Greek “head of a thousand”) at the courts of the Achemenid Persian dynasty and Alexander the Great is considered.
Y. V. Kornilov
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Karanos : bulletin of ancient Macedonian studies
Karanos. Bulletin of Ancient Macedonian Studies is an Academic Journal focused in the Historical, Socioeconomical and Cultural perspectives related with Ancient Macedonia, from the Argead Dynasty to the Hellenistic Macedonian Kingdoms (Seleucids ...
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Ciències de l'Antiguitat i de l'Edat Mitjana
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In the long inscription that runs above the main entrance of thefortress in Aleppo, the Mamluk sultan al-Malik al-Ashraf Khalil (689/1290-692/1294) is called “the Alexander of his time”.
François de Polignac
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Abstract This article examines the pro‐Montenegrin political campaigns of Alexander Devine, a schoolmaster and journalist who became Montenegro's leading British advocate following its incorporation into the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes after the First World War.
ROSS CAMERON
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Ptolemaic queen Berenice II: intriguing exophthalmos in an ancient mosaic portrait and in a gold decadrachm. [PDF]
peer reviewedFollowing the death of Alexander the Great, the Macedonian Ptolemies ruled Ancient Egypt from 323 BC to 30 BC. On a mosaic and coins, a portrait of Berenice II, one member of this dynasty of pharaohs, is notable for prominent eyes and neck ...
Valdes-Socin, Hernan Gonzalo +1 more
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The actual science task is studies of byzantine military treatises created in Macedonian dynasty. The object in article is polemological ideas of Emperor Leo VI in Taktika and tasks are 1) to identify the statutory duties of strategos of theme; 2) to ...
Karina Kapsalykova
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Beyond Brunhild: reassessing women in the Fredegar Chronicle
Scholarly consideration of women in the seventh‐century Fredegar chronicle has long been dominated by the author’s hostility towards Brunhild, queen of Austrasia. Statistical analysis of Latin world chronicles before ad 900, however, shows that Fredegar’s representation of women was unusually high within this tradition.
Emily Quigley
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Legislation of the byzantine emperors of the 8th — early 10th centuries on monks: traditions and innovations [PDF]
The article studies the legislation on monks and monasteries of the Byzantine emperors of the 8th to the early 10th centuries. Most of the legal codes under consideration are revision of the corpus of Emperor Justinian I.
Anna Vankova
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“Flames Over Persepolis”: New Scientific Evidence Supporting Historical Perspectives
ABSTRACT This study investigates the burning of Persepolis Terrace, historically attributed to Alexander III in 330 bce. A review of classical accounts and excavation reports, combined with diagnostic surveys, confirms the fire's historicity and provides novel insights.
Maria Letizia Amadori +10 more
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Linguistic Evidence Suggests that Xiōng‐nú and Huns Spoke the Same Paleo‐Siberian Language
Abstract The Xiōng‐nú were a tribal confederation who dominated Inner Asia from the third century BC to the second century AD. Xiōng‐nú descendants later constituted the ethnic core of the European Huns. It has been argued that the Xiōng‐nú spoke an Iranian, Turkic, Mongolic or Yeniseian language, but the linguistic affiliation of the Xiōng‐nú and the ...
Svenja Bonmann, Simon Fries
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