PHILIP’S PALACE IN MACEDONIA
Mar 13, 2016
PHILIP’S PALACE IN MACEDONIA
THE YOUNG ALEXANDER (RECONSTRUCTED)
ALEXANDER AND BUCEPHALUS
THE SCHOOL WHERE FOR THREE YEARSARISTOTLE TUTORED ALEXANDER
ARISTOTLE AND A MANUSCRIPT FRAGMENT WITH THE WORDS “PHILOSOPHOS” AND “EPITOME”
MACEDONIAN MOSAIC OF LION HUNT
HEPHAESTIONALEXANDER’SCOMPANION
ASSASSINATION OF PHILIP 336 B.C.ADVANCE FORCE OF 10,000
ALREADY ACROSS HELLESPONT
ALEXANDERAGAINSTPERSIA
MACEDONIA TO
EGYPT334 B.C.
TOSPRING 331 B.C.
ALEXANDER IS SAID TO BE DESCENDED FROM ACHILLES, THE YOUNG HERO OF HOMER’S ILIAD.
ON THE JOURNEY ALEXANDER SLEEPS WITH THE ILIAD AND A DAGGER
BENEATH HIS PILLOW.
IN ASIA, IN A GESTURE OF SYMBOLIC IDENTIFICATION, ALEXANDER STOPS FIRST WHERE THE GREEKS IN THE ILIAD DESTROYED TROY. ALEXANDER’S IS THE ARMY OF HOMER’S GREEK HEROES REBORN.
Battle of River Granicus May 334 B.C.
PERSIANAND
GREEKFOOT
SOLDIERS
PERSIAN CAVALRY IN DEFENSIVE FORMATION, PERSIAN INFANTRY AND
THE MACEDONIAN PHALANX
ALEXANDER VS. DARIUS III AT THE BATTLE OF THE ISSUS 333 B.C.
ALEXANDER
DARIUS III KING OF THE PERSIANS