When Alexander the Great suddenly died in 323 BCE without a legitimate heir, the future of his massive empire was uncertain, to say the least. He had left two unborn children, an illegitimate son and a half-wit half-brother, but the real power lay with none of them. The true power was with the generals…
Along the banks of the Thames just north of London Bridge, six meters below the current street level, lie the oldest remains of infant London.
The city has changed through its two millennia of occupation, but some things have not. There are still houses in these oldest parts of London that were built on…
It did not take long after the death of Alexander the Great before everything he had built began to fall apart. Who ever felt they had any chance at power, immediately started grasping for it. They come down to us through history as the diadochi – the “successors”.
Antipater was an important…
When Alexander the Great suddenly died in 323 BCE he left two pregnant wives, an unrecognised bastard son, a mentally disabled half-brother, but no heir. And then, more than ever, a competent heir was absolutely crucial. Alexander might have set out a Macedon king 11 years earlier, but he died the ruler of a…
Few men have lost as great a battle yet been so celebrated for it as has Leonidas of Sparta.
It was the summer of 480 BCE and a vast Persian army was on the march with a single goal: subduing all of Greece. The only path they could possibly take into Greece proper went…
