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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 ...
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 ...
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 building of the temple started merely simultaneously with the constriction of the new Priene city. It was estimated the building date is 350-330 BC. [7] 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]
Heisserer, A. J. (1973) "Alexander's Letter to the Chians: A Redating of SIG 3 283." Historia: Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte 22(2): 191–204. JSTOR 4435329; Heisserer, A. J. (1980) Alexander the Great and the Greeks: The Epigraphic Evidence. University of Oklahoma Press. Piejko, Francis. (1985) "The 'Second Letter' of Alexander the Great to ...
They could then sail south down the California coast, utilizing the available winds and the south-flowing California Current, about 1 mi/hr (1.6 km/h). After sailing about 1,500 miles (2,400 km) south on they eventually reached their home port in Mexico.
The three recensions are called I 1, I 2, and I 3 (also called J 1, J 2, and J 3 in some publications). Their influence was enormous on medieval European literature, spawning an immense number of translations into almost every vernacular and subsequently making Alexander a household name in the European Middle Ages . [ 1 ]
The Syriac Alexander Legend (known in Syriac as Neṣḥānā d-Aleksandrōs; Syriac: ܢܨܚܢܐ, "The Victory of Alexander," named in the Budge edition as "A Christian Legend concerning Alexander" or the "Christian Syriac Alexander Legend" (CSAL)), [1] is a Syriac legendary account of the exploits of Alexander the Great composed in the sixth or seventh century.