One. One historian has called him this. Not plural....one, Pierre Briant. Robin Lane Fox makes mention of this, but puts it into context. The fact that Alexander married two Persians from the Achaemenids, and the fact that they bore him no children, does actually make him the last of the Achaemenids, "From the point of view of Near Eastern imperial geopolitics."

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I am curious now about Legio X Equestris, Fretensis, and Gemina.

Most discussions are that Equestris was Caesar's famed 10th, and after a mutiny against Augustus, it lost its cognomen, was reinforced with men from varying other Legions, and rechristened, Gemina. This is the idea that was postulated by Professor Mommsen over 100 years...

To a Greek hoplite, there may be no more fearful site, than that of the lambda blazon. Called episema (επισημα) by the Greeks, the art of painting a shield with an emblem for identification was already centuries old by the time the Spartans were to have adopted the lambda, or upside down V, as a state symbol in 418 bc [1 pg 28]. Prior to this, individual warriors would have personal symbols, such as a scorpion, gorgon, Heraclean club, painted on their shields. In one such case, a warrior was said...

I think I will make this old post of mine, part one on MVA.


Born between 64-62 BCE to a less than prominent family, Agrippa was able to meet an befriend another youth during his school years that would govern his action the rest of his life. This friend, Gaius Octavius Thurinus, who is better known to us by his latter title of Caesar Augustus, would recognize the inherent military skills of this young man named Agrippa, and would hold him close to his breast for all of his...

Within Pakistan, there exist three tribes, the Burusho, the Kalash, and the Pathan, which all describe themselves as descendants of Macedonian soldiers that had accompanied Alexander in his adventures of conquest.

In 2005, geneticists from Pakistan, the U.S., and the U.K. set out to discover if there is any truth to the legends.

The suspects:

Barusho


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