Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #alexander-the-great, aggregated by home.social.
Rubio Calls on Europe to Rebuild Western Power and Embrace Global Leadership
United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio urged Europe to emerge from its “long slumber” and strengthen i…
#Europe #EU #AlexandertheGreat #Christiancivilisation #economicpower #energypipelines #energysecurity #European #Europeandefence #globalstanding #Greekdemocracy #MarcoRubio #Mediterraneanhub #militarypower #NATOSummit #regionalsecurity #Trumpadministration #Westernpower
https://www.europesays.com/europe/154741/
Archaeologists uncover 250-metre wall at ancient Greek city of Blaundos in Türkiye – Greek City Times
Archaeologists have uncovered a wall nearly 250 metres long around the North Temple at Blaundos, the ancient Greek…
#EuropeSays #Turkiye #Türkiye #ALEXANDERTHEGREAT #ancientGreece #archaeology #Blaundos #BLAUNDUS #Hellenistic #NorthTemple #tombs #Uşak
https://www.europesays.com/turkiye/57789/
“Now I will tell the captains of the ships, and all the ships together”*…
Ethan Mollick has created a new site that’s fascinating in two different ways. First and most overtly, it’s a beautiful (and thorough) visualization and explanation of the ships used by the protagonists of The Iliad.
But at the same time, it is a powerful demonstration of (at least one of) the ways that AI might be useful in scholarship and education: Mollick spun up the site last month, using Claude…
In the second book of the Iliad the poet pauses on the brink of the first battle, calls on the Muses, and counts the fleet: twenty-nine contingents, forty-six captains, some 178 place-names, 1,186 ships [and by Thucydides’ reckoning, around 100,000 men]. This site puts every entry on the map, rebuilds the ships from the archaeological evidence [pictured on this site], and lets you read the lines beside the ruins they describe…
“The Catalogue of Ships” from @emollick.bsky.social.
* Homer/The Poet, The Iliad, Book 2, lines 492-3
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As we set sail, we might recall that it was on this date in 331 BCE (long, long ago– but hundreds of years after the action described in The Iliad) that Alexander the Great and the Army of Macedon defeated King Darius III and his Persian Army in the Battle of Gaugamela, effectively the final blow to the Achaemenid Empire, resulting in its complete conquest by Alexander.
The Battle of Gaugamela, Jan Brueghel the Elder, 1602 (source) #AchaemenidEmpire #AI #AlexanderTheGreat #artificialIntelligence #boats #culture #DariusIII #history #Homer #Iliad #literature #Macedonia #Persia #ships #Visualization
Alexander the Great didn’t just admire legendary heroes—he modeled himself on them. From Achilles to Heracles, mythology helped shape his identity, his ambitions, and the image he created as he conquered an empire.
#AlexanderTheGreat #AncientGreece #GreekMythology #AncientHistory #Achilles #Macedonia
Read More: https://www.ancient-origins.net/history-famous-people/alexander-the-great-mind-0016338
Ancient Macedonian gymnasium linked to Alexander the Great reveals new finds in Greece
New excavations at the Royal Gymnasium of ancient Mieza in northern Greece are revealing more about education in Macedon during the 4th century BCE. The site near modern Naousa is linked by scholars to the place where Aristotle taught the young Alexander and other Macedonian royal heirs...
More info: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/09/macedonian-gymnasium-linked-to-alexander/
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Ancient Macedonian gymnasium linked to Alexander the Great reveals new finds in Greece https://www.byteseu.com/2375965/ #AlexanderTheGreat #AncientGreece #AncientMacedonia #Greece #GreekArchitecture
#Quote “It suits the #tyrant to keep the #revolutionary #starving, too #busy fending for #daily #survival, to #revolt.”
- #Aristotle #QuoteS
...great ancient #Athenian #philosopher...
... pupil of #Plato
... #teacher of #AlexanderTheGreat (384-322 BC)
Minor update for Arete: Battles of Alexander today, but I did tweak the VP requirements for the Pelium scenario so you'll have to update to the latest version (1.2.10) play online.
Arete is on iOS, Android, and Steam (Win and Mac).
#HexAndCounter #Wargames #Wargaming #BoardGames #AncientHistory #History #AlexanderTheGreat
#AlbaniaPol #DuaLippa #Politics
#EUpol
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...in a, with hindsight overly rigurous accession process, loosing a once-in-a lifetime opportunity to finally reconcile the Near East with #Europe after milennia of warfare...and historically brief interregna of #AlexanderTheGreat and the (Eastern) #RomanEmpire. 1)
The same must not happen again with the current accession candidates from the #Balkans, and #Ukraine.
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1) (I am discounting...
Discover #medieval lions!
Following my last post on the Bodley Alexander (MS 264), Prof. McNamer (2026) suggests it was made for the young prince Lionel (meaning "Young Lion") of Antwerp (c. 1344).
Discover hidden lions woven into its folios:
Folio 65r: Look closely at the lion head on the saddle, as Alexander and #Bucephalus encounter dragons.
Folio 20v: Dozens of lion faces are embedded in the red sky.
Alexander the Great in a glass diving bell, a puppet show, and a monk accompanied by a feline?
Recent scholarship suggests that the Bodley Alexander (MS 264) was made as a "picture book" for a young prince Lionel of Antwerp (1338–1368), son of Edward III and Philippa of Hainault.
Episode: Child's Play and the Provenance of the Bodley Alexander (Prof. McNamer and O' Mara) (July 2026)
#ArtHistory #Classics #Mythology #Manuscripts #iconography #AlexandertheGreat
https://www.europesays.com/3095111/ Turkey places site of Alexander the Great’s first battle with Persians under historic protection #AlexanderTheGreat #Battlefield #Canakkale #ÇanakkaleRegionalBoard #HistoricSite #HistoricalSite #MehmetNuriErsoy #StefanHauser #Turkey #turkiye
Turkey places site of Alexander the Great’s first battle with Persians under historic protection https://www.byteseu.com/2148785/ #AlexanderTheGreat #battlefield #Çanakkale #ÇanakkaleRegionalBoard #HistoricSite #HistoricalSite #MehmetNuriErsoy #StefanHauser #Turkey
I saw a photo of a Greco-Buddhist sculpture. I didn't even know that #GrecoBuddhism was a thing. my boy #AlexanderTheGreat was behind it of course, founding cities in Asia left and right and bringing with him the idea that proper worship needs anthropomorphized art. and so the first Buddha statues looked like Greek gods, with curly hair, bedsheet for clothing and a contrapposto stance. #Gandhara
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greco-Buddhism#Anthropomorphic_representation_of_the_Buddha
Philip II of Macedonia presenting his son, Alexander, to the troops (Jesus Blasco)
https://www.europesays.com/people/122261/ Trump from ‘hunted’ to ‘hunter’: New book details Trump’s push to test the limits of executive power #AlexanderTheGreat #CharlesSchumer #DonaldTrump #GaryPlayer #GhislaineMaxwell #HakeemJeffries #HillaryClinton #JDVance #JeffreyEpstein #JonathanSwan #MaggieHaberman #MarcoRubio #MelaniaTrump #MonicaLewinsky #NicolasMaduro #Politics #RicGrenell #RichardNixon #SusieWiles #TuckerCarlson #WashingtonNews #WilliamTheConqueror
https://www.europesays.com/3072797/ Trump from ‘hunted’ to ‘hunter’: New book details Trump’s push to test the limits of executive power #AlexanderTheGreat #CharlesSchumer #DonaldTrump #GaryPlayer #GhislaineMaxwell #HakeemJeffries #HillaryClinton #JdVance #JeffreyEpstein #JonathanSwan #MaggieHaberman #MarcoRubio #MelaniaTrump #MonicaLewinsky #NicolásMaduro #Politics #RicGrenell #RichardNixon #SecretaryOfState #SusieWiles #TuckerCarlson #WashingtonNews #WilliamTheConqueror
https://www.europesays.com/people/120014/ Trump from ‘hunted’ to ‘hunter’: New book details Trump’s push to test the limits of executive power #AlexanderTheGreat #CharlesSchumer #ChuckSchumer #DonaldTrump #GaryPlayer #GhislaineMaxwell #HakeemJeffries #HillaryClinton #JDVance #JeffreyEpstein #JonathanSwan #MaggieHaberman #MarcoRubio #MelaniaTrump #MonicaLewinsky #NicolasMaduro #Politics #RicGrenell #RichardNixon #SusieWiles #TuckerCarlson #WashingtonNews #WilliamTheConqueror
https://www.europesays.com/3072549/ Trump from ‘hunted’ to ‘hunter’: New book details Trump’s push to test the limits of executive power #AlexanderTheGreat #CharlesSchumer #DonaldTrump #GaryPlayer #GhislaineMaxwell #HakeemJeffries #HillaryClinton #JdVance #JeffreyEpstein #JonathanSwan #MaggieHaberman #MarcoRubio #MelaniaTrump #MonicaLewinsky #NicolásMaduro #Politics #RicGrenell #RichardNixon #SecretaryOfState #SusieWiles #TuckerCarlson #WashingtonNews #WilliamTheConqueror
https://www.europesays.com/people/119903/ Trump from ‘hunted’ to ‘hunter’: New book details Trump’s push to test the limits of executive power #AlexanderTheGreat #CharlesSchumer #DonaldTrump #GaryPlayer #GhislaineMaxwell #HakeemJeffries #HillaryClinton #JDVance #JeffreyEpstein #JonathanSwan #MaggieHaberman #MarcoRubio #MelaniaTrump #MonicaLewinsky #NicolasMaduro #Politics #RicGrenell #RichardNixon #SusieWiles #TuckerCarlson #WashingtonNews #WilliamTheConqueror
https://www.europesays.com/people/119873/ Trump from ‘hunted’ to ‘hunter’: New book details Trump’s push to test the limits of executive power #AlexanderTheGreat #CharlesSchumer #DonaldTrump #GaryPlayer #GhislaineMaxwell #HakeemJeffries #HillaryClinton #JDVance #JeffreyEpstein #JonathanSwan #MaggieHaberman #MarcoRubio #MelaniaTrump #MonicaLewinsky #NicolasMaduro #Politics #RicGrenell #RichardNixon #SusieWiles #TuckerCarlson #WashingtonNews #WilliamTheConqueror
"Nice country. I think I'll take it."
https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/2127750/nice-country-i-think-i-ll-take-it
Ancient Macedonian troops, plus a Persian archer (Giuseppe Rava)
Macedonian light infantry (Giuseppe Rava)
https://piefed.social/c/historyart/p/2047428/macedonian-light-infantry-giuseppe-rava
Everything you didn't know you wanted to know about William Shatner's failed Alexander the Great TV pilot.
#television #WilliamShatner #pilot #AlexanderTheGreat #StarTrek #AdamWest #Batman
‘Can a conqueror remain a true student of virtue? Does political power inevitably corrupt the soul?’ https://greekreporter.com/2025/12/07/alexander-the-great-rebuked-aristotle-hidden-teachings/
Clearly Trump is not. His soul has been corrupted and not just by embezzlement and undermining the independence of the executive, legislative and judiciary. To be fair he didn’t have or has anyone like Aristotle for his teacher. Neither is he like Alaxander the Great, a pupil who built an Empire. Therefore the facts support the truth that he must be the destroyer of an Empire. Most definitely he is not the leader, creator, financier or the worker of a Federation. #EmpireVsFederation #Philosophy #DialecticalInference #DialecticPrinciple #Aristotle #AlexanderTheGreat
Roman Emperors and their marital interests
https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/1997228/roman-emperors-and-their-marital-interests
Roman Emperors and their marital interests
Just released a massive update for Arete that takes the number of scenarios from 8 to lucky 13! New scenarios are:
•Haemus
•Lyginus
•Pelium
•Arigaeum
•Twins (a balanced Alex v Alex scenario for 2-players)
Not a DLC. Not an in-app purchase. If you own Arete on any platform just update and enjoy!
#Wargaming #HexAndCounter #Wargames #AncientHistory #History #AlexanderTheGreat
