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The siege of Miletus was Alexander the Great's first siege and naval encounter with the Achaemenid Empire.This siege was directed against Miletus, a city in southern Ionia, which is now located in the Aydın province of modern-day Turkey.
Life of Alexander (see Parallel Lives) and two orations On the Fortune or the Virtue of Alexander the Great (see Moralia), by the Greek historian and biographer Plutarch of Chaeronea in the second century, based largely on Aristobulus and especially Cleitarchus. Plutarch devotes a great deal of space to Alexander's drive and desire and strives ...
Alexander appears to have introduced a new coinage in Cilicia in Tarsus, after the Battle of Issus in 333 BC, which went on to become the main coinage of the empire. [122] Alexander minted gold staters, silver tetradrachms and drachims, and various fractional bronze coins. The types of these coins remained constant in his empire.
In Alexander the Great: Sources and studies, William Woodthorpe Tarn wrote, "There is then not one scrap of evidence for calling Alexander homosexual." [16] Ernst Badian rejects Tarn's portrait of Alexander, stating that Alexander was closer to a ruthless dictator and that Tarn's depiction was the subject of personal bias. [17]
Alexander Stanley Kroll (November 23, 1937 – December 17, 2024) was an American professional football player and an advertising agency executive at Young & Rubicam, where he was CEO for ten years. Early life and football
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 ...
Alexander Wang used look-alikes for Ariana Grande, Taylor Swift, Beyoncé and Kylie Jenner in a new ad campaign, furthering a debate about celebrity brands.
Ancient cities founded by Alexander the Great in Central and South Asia. Alexander populated the city with 7,000 Macedonians, 3,000 mercenaries and thousands of natives (according to Curtius VII.3.23), or some 7,000 natives and 3,000 non-military camp followers and a number of Greek mercenaries (Diodorus, XVII.83.2), in March 329 BC.