Alexander and Dareios at Issus

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Alexander and Dareios at Issus
Detail from the Alexander Mosaic
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Mal Mot Bon Mot
King of Macedonia King of /among Macedonians 
money wealth
belief trust
kratos/ power persuasion/peithos
mythos/myth story
truth probability
illegitimate irrelevant or unknown maternal grandfather
prove/proof demonstate/argue
government direction/rule
"every four years" penteteric/quinquennial "every fifth year" 
war battle
conquest victory nike
assassin assassinate murderer/killer murder/kill
Oedipus the King Oedipus the Tyrant
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Whose Alexander
Justinus Digest of Trogus Third Century
Flavius Arrianus Second Century
Plutarchus Ca.70
Q. Curtius Rufus First Century
CE BCE AD BC
Pompeius Trogus
Diodorus Siculus First Century
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Event Plutarch Date
Issos 20 333
Granicus 16 334
Visit to Troy 15
Oracle from Delphi 14
Destruction of Thebes 11 335
Defeat of the Triballoi 12
Murder of Philippos Dareios basileus 9-12 336
Chaironeia 12 338
Birth of Alexander 3 356
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Philippos Olympias Cleopatra hetairos/hetairoi (co
mpanions) philos/philoi (friends) You go to
battle only when you have schole , wealth and
hetairoi. You do not go to battle to gain wealth
but to gain time.
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Alexander at the Granicus
Detail from the Alexander Sarcophagus
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Alexander and Dareios at Issus
Detail from the Alexander Mosaic