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61Anahita — This article is about the goddess. For the spider genus, see Ctenidae. Statue of Anahita in Maragha. Anahita is the Old Persian form of the name of an Iranian goddess and appears in complete and earlier form as Aredvi Sura Anahita (Arədvī Sūrā… …
62Alexander the Great — 356 323 B.C., king of Macedonia 336 323: conqueror of Greek city states and of the Persian empire from Asia Minor and Egypt to India. * * * or Alexander III born 356 BC, Pella, Macedonia died June 13, 323 BC, Babylon King of Macedonia (336–323)… …
63ancient Greek civilization — ▪ historical region, Eurasia Introduction the period following Mycenaean civilization, which ended in about 1200 BC, to the death of Alexander the Great, in 323 BC. It was a period of political, philosophical, artistic, and scientific… …
64Arybbas (somatophylax) — For other person with the same name, see Arybbas Arybbas was a somatophylax of Alexander the Great. He was probably from Epirus, a member of the Molossian royal house (i.e., a relative of Olympias). He died of illness in Egypt in the winter of… …
65Cleander of Macedon — For other persons with the same name, see Cleander Cleander , son of Polemocrates and brother of Coenus was one of Alexander s officers. Cleander replaced Menander as commander of the mercenaries. Towards the winter of 334 BC, Alexander, being… …
66Demetrius (son of Althaemenes) — For other persons with the same name, see Demetrius (disambiguation) Demetrius , son of Althaemenes was hipparch of one ile of Hetairoi in the battle of Gaugamela. Demetrius last recorded command was in the Mallian campaign (325 BC). References… …
67Demonicus of Pella — Demonicus of Pella, son of Athenaeus was presumably one of Alexander s hetairoi and served in 326 BC as a trierarch of the Hydaspes fleet of Nearchus. References Who s who in the age of Alexander the Great: prosopography of Alexander s empire… …
68Dimnus — of Chalastra in Macedonia was hetairos of Alexander. In autumn 330 BC, he formed a conspiracy to murder the king . Dimnus revealed to his eromenos Nicomachus the names of the conspirators ( Demetrius, Peucolaus , Nicanor , Aphobetus, lolaus,… …
69Gorgias of Macedon — For other persons with the same name, see Gorgias (disambiguation) Gorgias was one of Alexander s officers, among those who were brought reluctantly from Macedonia by Amyntas (son of Andromenes), when he was sent home to collect levies in 332 BC …
70Menes of Pella — (Greek: Μένης), son of Dionysius, was one of the officers of Alexander the Great; and after the Battle of Issus (333 BC) was admitted by the king into the number of his somatophylakes, in the place of Balacrus, who was promoted to the satrapy of… …
