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Born Robert Francis Prevost and raised in Chicago, he is the first American to ascend to the papacy. He is a product of an ...

Herod's eldest son and heir apparent, Antipater, convinced the king that ... (As Kasher notes in his biography, "Herod the Great" was, for the Jews, an ironic title, designating an arrogant ...

His father and mother both had great admiration for Plato and saw it ... by one of his own personal guards, those close to Alexander were under suspicion, especially his General Antipater and ...

In the wake of Alexander the Great’s conquests of the Persian Empire ... Sun ever looked upon its equal,” gushed Greek author Antipater around 100 B.C. Sailing south to Egypt, a journey ...

In the collective work Alexander the Great, by the Society for Macedonian ... he left the supervision of his son to the experienced General Antipater. At that time, the Medes, a Thracian tribe ...

The situation in the Macedonian palace was similarly chaotic after the great conqueror’s death. Starting his massive campaign to conquer Asia, Alexander had left Antipater as head of state with the ...

Kings and Generals' animated series on Ancient Greece continues with the wars of the Diadochi, the successors of Alexander the Great ... where Antipater and Ptolemy emerged victorious.

Since his death in 323 BCE, the world has been obsessed with Alexander the Great, who set out from his kingdom of Macedon (in modern-day Greece) at the age of 20 to conquer the mighty Persian Empire.