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Alexander the Great issued an edict, probably in the summer of 334 BC, to the city of Priene. [1] On the Temple of Athena Polias a section of the edict was inscribed across four marble blocks "near the top of the east face of the north anta of the pronaos." [2] It was inscribed in Koine Greek the 280s BC during the reign of Lysimachus. The same ...
Second part of the calendar inscription of Priene. The Priene calendar inscription (IK Priene 14) is an inscription in stone recovered at Priene (an ancient Greek city, in Western Turkey) that records an edict by Paullus Fabius Maximus, proconsul of the Roman province of Asia and a decree of the conventus of the province accepting the edict from 9 BC.
The Priene inscription is a dedicatory inscription by Alexander the Great, which was discovered at the Temple of Athena Polias in Priene (modern Turkey), in the nineteenth century. It now forms an important part of the British Museum 's Ancient Greek epigraphic collection and provides a direct link to one of the most famous persons in ancient ...
After Alexander the Great gained his victory at Granicus River in 334 BC, he dedicated the Temple to Athena Polias by funding the cost of construction. [7] Although it was not recorded in Arrian’s The Anabasis of Alexander , there is a dedication inscription records the funding gifts and a Rhodes award favouring Priene . [ 8 ]
Priene was a member of the Athenian-dominated Delian League in the 5th century BCE. In 387 BCE it came under Persian dominance again, which lasted until Alexander the Great's conquest. [9] Disputes with Samos, and the troubles after Alexander's death, brought Priene low. Rome had to save it from the kings of Pergamon and Cappadocia in 155.
Alexander the Great is a CinemaScope and Technicolor 1956 epic historical drama film about the life of Macedonian general and king Alexander the Great written, produced and directed by Robert Rossen. Filmed in Spain, it was released by United Artists and stars Richard Burton as Alexander along with a large ensemble cast.
Alexander's invasion of Persia as a whole has been denoted as a supreme example of a "strategic line" of conducting war, a line formed by "the chain of logic that connects operations into a single whole." In his book Strategy, Soviet military officer and theorist Alexander Svechin delineates Alexander's strategic steps. After securing his Greek ...
Alexander: Revisited takes a more in-depth look at Alexander's life and his relationships with Olympias, Philip, Hephaestion, Roxana, and Ptolemy. The film has a running time of three hours and 34 minutes (214 minutes, about 40 minutes longer than the theatrical cut and almost 50 minutes longer than the first director's cut) and is presented in ...