Article: Alexander and the Hellenistic Kingdoms: Coins, Image and the Creation of Identity: The Westmoreland Collection.(Brief article)(Book review)

Article: Did the Maccabees betray the Hanukka revolution?
Jerusalem Post;  December 27, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... the monumental conquests of Alexander the Great in the fourth century BCE. Beginning with Alexander, the Hellenistic kingdoms that dominated Judea were ... the wars between the two Hellenistic kingdoms, freeing its citizens from ...

Article: The Power of Excess: Royal Incest and the Ptolemaic Dynasty
Anthropologica;  July 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... established in the wake of Alexander's death in the territories ... hyperkinetic Macedonian. Alexander's "empire" was ... companions and followers of Alexander. Thus, one characteristic ... shared by each of the Hellenistic kingdoms was the ethnic divide ...

Article: Hard times now, hard time then
Jerusalem Post;  December 5, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... Furthermore, by the reign of Alexander Janneus (102-76 BCE ... descendants of King David. Alexander hired Greek mercenaries ... became modeled on other Hellenistic kingdoms in the Middle East. Many Jews questioned Alexander's legitimacy and his ...

Article: MILITARY INTERVENTIONS DANGEROUS, COSTLY.(Editorial)
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA);  July 25, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... Consider the Hellenistic age (from the death of Alexander the Great in 323 B.C. to the beginning of ... everything in their world. They overcame the Hellenistic kingdoms set up by Alexander's successors. Jews, Egyptians, Greeks ...

Article: Envoy (Greek envoy says Pak-Greece relations are excellent).
PPI - Pakistan Press International;  August 23, 2007 ;     562 words ... ... philosophers ornamented the courts of the Punjabi Kings, to the Hellenistic kingdoms of the seconds century AD. Meanwhile (almost a thousand ... of the greatest Strategists and Emperors of all times, Alexander the Great (Sikandar-I-Azam) brought peace, prosperity ...

Article: The Cambridge Companion to the Hellenistic World.(Brief ...
Reference & Research Book News;  August 1, 2006 ;     419 words ... ... pages $80.00 Hardcover DE86 The period from the death of Alexander the Great in 322 BC to the arrival of Christianity in those ... Europe, the US, and Australia. Among their topics are the Hellenistic kingdoms, economies, the family, continuity and change in religion ...

Dictionary definition: Greece
A Dictionary of World History;      700+ words ... ... an outside conqueror - PHILIP II of Macedonia. After the death of his son, ALEXANDER III (the Great), the Greek world was dominated by the Hellenistic kingdoms with the cities of Greece playing comparatively minor parts in the power struggle ...