History: Theocritus

Posted on Sun 05 December 2021 in history • Tagged with history, person

315 - 250 BCE

Theocritus was a native of Sicily who wrote short poems known as idylls. The themes of Theocritus' poetry usually centered around eroticism, "lovers' complaints," and nature. Theocritus' contemporaries believed that Homer's epic's could never be out done and thus writers should limit the length of their work …


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History: Hippocrates

Posted on Sun 21 November 2021 in history • Tagged with history, person

400 BCE

Hippocrates was a philosopher who lived in the time of Socrates. His contribution to medical science is notable, since he is regarded to have been the first philosopher to acknowledge a distinction between medicine and philosophy. Hippocrates focused on natural explanations and cures for disease rather than philosophical …


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History: Judas Maccabaeus

Posted on Sun 07 November 2021 in history • Tagged with history, person

164 BCE

When Seleucid king Antiochus IV, 175- 163 BCE, lead troops into Jerusalem, Judas Maccabaeus lead a revolt in which the Jews were able to capture the Temple of Jerusalem. The holiday of Hanukkah is celebrated each year by Jewish people in remembrance of this event.


History: Apollonius of Rhodes

Posted on Sun 17 October 2021 in history • Tagged with history, person

295 BCE

A revolutionary figure in Greek literature, who ignored conventional wisdom that writers should stick to short poems, and wrote an epic known as Argonautica. Argonautica tells the story of Jason, who sought the fabled Golden Fleece.


History: Roxane

Posted on Sun 26 September 2021 in history • Tagged with history, person

350 BCE

Roxane was the daughter of a Bactrian Baron named Oxyartes. Alexander the Great married Roxane, 327 BCE, as was common practice, to cement relations between his empire and Roxane's state, which he had defeated. Alexander died when Roxane was pregnant with his only heir. Later, Roxane gave birth …


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History: Alexander the Great

Posted on Sun 19 September 2021 in history • Tagged with history, person

355 - 323 BCE- Alexander was the son of Philip II who took control of Greece and Macedonia after the death of his father, 336 BCE. Alexander is popularly known as "Alexander the Great" because of his conquest of much of the Mediterranean region, Asia-minor, including the territory once held by …


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