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Peter Morris Green (22 December 1924 – 16 September 2024) was an English classical scholar and novelist noted for his works on the Greco-Persian Wars, Alexander the Great and the Hellenistic Age of ancient history, generally regarded as spanning the era from the death of Alexander in 323 BC up to either the date of the Battle of Actium or the death of Augustus in 14 AD.
Peter Allen Greenbaum (29 October 1946 – 25 July 2020), [1] [2] known professionally as Peter Green, was an English blues rock singer-songwriter and guitarist. [3] Green founded Fleetwood Mac in 1967 after a stint in John Mayall's Bluesbreakers and quickly established the new band as a popular live act in addition to a successful recording act, before departing in 1970.
The siege of Pelium was undertaken by Alexander the Great against the Illyrian tribes in parts of what is modern-day Albania.It was critical for Alexander to take this pass as it provided easy access to Illyria and Macedonia, which was urgently needed in order to quell the unrest in Greece at this time in Athens and Thebes.
Peter Green, founder of Fleetwood Mac and the band’s widely admired guitarist and vocalist in its early years before drug abuse and mental illness foreshortened his career, has died. Fleetwood ...
Historian Peter Green, in his 1974 book Alexander of Macedon, proposed a way to reconcile the accounts of Diodorus and Arrian. According to Green's interpretation, the riverbank was guarded by infantry, not cavalry, and Alexander's forces sustained heavy losses in the initial attempt to cross the river and were forced to retire.
Greek Warfare: From the Battle of Marathon to the Conquests of Alexander the Great. ABC-CLIO. Green, Peter (1974). Alexander of Macedon: A Historical Biography. ISBN 978-0-520-07166-7; Green, Peter (1991). Alexander of Macedon, 356–323 B.C.: A Historical Biography. University of California Press. Kistler, John M. (2006). War Elephants ...
Saturday TODAY co-anchor Peter Alexander has just made 20 years at NBC News. In honor of his big anniversary, Alexander’s co-hosts shared a video on TODAY on Aug. 17 that paid homage to the Emmy ...
Greeny is a 1959 Gibson Les Paul Standard, named after its first famous owner, Peter Green in 1964/5. He used it during his time in John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers and Fleetwood Mac, before selling it to Gary Moore in the early 1970s.