The Ptolemaic Dynasty, established by the Macedonian Greek general Ptolemy I Soter, ruled Egypt for almost three centuries.

Born in 356 BCE in Pella, Alexander the Great became one of history's most ... These cities became centers of learning and culture, widely spreading his name and the Hellenistic civilization.

This was united by a common Greek language and culture, while the king himself adopted foreign customs in order to rule his millions of ethnically diverse subjects. Alexander was acknowledged as a ...

Anaxarchus, a Greek philosopher at Alexander the Great’s court, upheld wisdom and detachment, reflecting on the fleeting ...

Hellenization, or Hellenism, refers to the spread of Greek culture that had begun after the conquest of Alexander the Great in the fourth century, B.C.E. One must think of the development of the ...

Cartledge — author of “Alexander the Great” — agrees that Darius I ... “He transmitted a Greco-Persian culture. Darius was an amazing figure but I’d say Alexander’s achievement ...

a professor emeritus of Greek culture at the University of Cambridge. "So, you have to take everything with a large pinch of salt," Cartledge, author of "Alexander the Great" (Overlook Press ...

In this enlightening documentary, historian Sona Datta walks us through the most vibrant city in the Indus Valley that seduced Alexander the Great and shaped the modern world. Watch the full ...

The Macedonians were famous across Greece for being great drinkers, and Alexander was no exception ... but the spread of the Greek language and culture continued from Athens to Syria, North ...

Conquering ninety percent of the known world by the age of twenty-five, Alexander the Great (Colin Farrell ... paved the way for the spread of Greek culture (facilitating the spread of ...