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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 Greek text of the whole inscription has been published several times [8] [9] [10] and the current authoritative edition appears as inscription no. 14 in the Priene volume of the Inschriften griechischer Städte aus Kleinasien series. [11] It consists of two distinct parts: The edict, and the decree of acceptance of the edict. [12]
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 ...
The Alexander's inscription. It is "King Alexander dedicated the temple to Athena Polias. [9]" British Museum. This dedication originally was not for this temple. The Alexander firstly found the temple of Artemis in Ephesos for dedication. [10] However, he was refused. [10] Thereafter, he, travelling alongside the coast, found Priene and gave ...
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.
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 ...
Alexander's sacking of Thebes ensured that Greece remained quiet during his absence. [65] The one exception was a call to arms by Spartan king Agis III in 331 BC, whom Antipater defeated and killed in the battle of Megalopolis. [65]
A decree was issued by Theodosius offering the offending pagans pardon and calling for the destruction of all pagan images, suggesting that these were at the origin of the commotion. Consequently, the Serapeum was either destroyed, or (as per Sozomen) converted into a Christian temple, as were the buildings dedicated to the Egyptian god Canopus.