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Campaspe (/ k æ m ˈ p æ s p iː /; Greek: Καμπάσπη, Kampaspē), or Pancaste (/ p æ ŋ ˈ k æ s t iː /; Greek: Πανκάστη, Pankastē; also Pakate), [1] was a supposed mistress of Alexander the Great and a prominent citizen of Larissa in Thessaly. No Campaspe appears in the five major sources for the life of Alexander and the ...
Timoclea before Alexander the Great, painting by Domenichino, c. 1615, Louvre. Plutarch's main source for the incident, as he mentions in passing elsewhere, was the account by Aristobulus of Cassandreia, [4] who knew Alexander well; this survives only in quotations by others, which may not all be accurate. The taking of Thebes took place in the ...
The death of Alexander the Great and subsequent related events have been the subjects of debates. According to a Babylonian astronomical diary, Alexander died in the palace of Nebuchadnezzar II in Babylon between the evening of 10 June and the evening of 11 June 323 BC, [1] at the age of 32.
Pliny claims that this very painting had been part of the collection of Julius Caesar, but was destroyed when Caesar's mansion on the Palatine Hill burned down. While sketching one of Alexander the Great's concubines, Campaspe, Apelles fell in love with her. As a mark of appreciation for the great painter's work, Alexander presented her to him.
"It's not every day you get to walk around a museum naked," said one visitor, who was nude when she enjoyed the Naturist Paradises exhibit at Mucem. The post Museum Opens Nudist Exhibit, Allowing ...
Philostratus the Elder in the Life of Apollonius of Tyana writes that in the army of Porus, there was an elephant who fought bravely against Alexander's army, and Alexander dedicated it to the Helios (Sun) and named it Ajax because he thought that such a great animal deserved a great name. The elephant had gold rings around its tusks and an ...
Alexander meets the Gymnosophists. Great Mongol Shahnameh, c. 1335. Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. Gymnosophists (Ancient Greek: γυμνοσοφισταί, gymnosophistaí, i.e. "naked philosophers" or "naked wise men" (from Greek γυμνός gymnós "naked" and σοφία sophía "wisdom")) [1] is the name given by the Greeks to certain ancient Indian philosophers who pursued asceticism to the ...
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