Stratonice of Syria was born around 317 BCE, the daughter of Demetrius Poliorcetes, one of Alexander the Great's successors, ...
Historians in Turkey have made a groundbreaking discovery, identifying what they believe to be the exact location of the ...
“The conflict was between the Hellenistic Empire of the Assyrians and the Jews…even in ancient times, Greeks were not related to Antiochus. That’s why he was called Ephiphanus. The one who wants to ...
In the second century BCE, the Syrian-Greek Seleucid Empire conquered Israel ... Judah ordered the Temple cleansed of Hellenistic statuary and restored service so Jews could freely worship ...
The Maccabees had fought against the Seleucid Empire, a Hellenistic empire that followed Alexander the Great, she said. “The king of that empire, Antiochus the IV Epiphanes, was a Seleucid king who ...
Alexandria was the jewel of the Hellenistic world. Lighthouse of Alexandria by Philip ... Alexander the Great met his end in the year 323 BC. After his death, the Empire was broken into four distinct ...
When his empire fell apart after his unexpected death ... Alexander's conquests and the time period afterward ushered in the "Hellenistic" age. "This was a period of immense cultural, economic ...