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 ...

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 ...

The Macedonian conquest was widely detested and resisted in a Persian Empire military historian Grainger describes not as the discordant mélange of peoples depicted in classical Greek accounts ...

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 ...

The betting at local tavernas, and Internet chatter worldwide, has focused on the so-called Successors, the Macedonian generals who carved up Alexander’s empire and made themselves kings of its ...

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 ...

Advertisement The instant collapse of both the Oilers and the Macedonian Empire wasn’t just a product of the departures of their two central figures. In both cases, disunity among those crucial ...

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 ...