This had an irreversible impact on Byzantine culture and society, as the definition of “Roman” would go through an evolution during the Macedonian Renaissance. The Byzantine Empire during the ...

Why was Alexander the Great seen by the Romans as the greatest military leader of the ancient world? This question would ...

ADVERTISEMENT The Macedonian empire quickly cracked up, however, leaving behind multiple successor states under Greek-speaking royal families. These were the richest societies of the Mediterranean ...

he emphasizes that the Macedonian wasn’t conquering brand-new territory, mile by mile, but a pre-existing empire. “He conquered the Persian empire and its frontiers — it was his main goal ...

Obviously, a historic empire, be it the Roman, Macedonian, Persian, Mongol or otherwise, is a different beast from what Nick Saban has built. But maybe those ancient civilizations have some sort ...

A large black-and-white mosaic decorates the floor of the House of Dionysus at Pella, capital of the Macedonian Empire. The majority of Pella’s visible ruins date to the Hellenistic period.

That was the recurrent, ultimately insurmountable, challenge faced by the empire-building Macedonian king Alexander the Great during the last seven years of his life, a tumultuous period now under ...