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…
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…
Scholars often divide the history of ancient Greece into six relatively distinct periods, but only five of them belong to the history of those ethnically Greek.
Though often included in Greek history, the Minoan civilisation of Bronze Age Crete and its contemporaries – the Helladic civilisation of mainland Greece and…
Opening an athletic magazine today we are met with diets, supplements, and energy boosters, all designed with excelling at a particular sport in mind. Gone are the days of the well-rounded gentleman athlete that Baron Pierre de Coubertin had in mind when he sought to re-establish the Olympic Games in 1894. The amateurs those…
