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

assassinassassinate

murderer/killermurder/kill

Oedipus the King Oedipus the Tyrant

Justinus’ Digest of Trogus

Third Century

Flavius Arrianus Second Century

Plutarchus Ca.70

Q. Curtius Rufus First Century

CEBCE

ADBC

[Pompeius Trogus]

Diodorus Siculus First Century

Whose Alexander

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 PhilipposDareios basileus

9-12 336

Chaironeia 12 338

Birth of Alexander 3 356

PhilipposOlympiasCleopatra

hetairos/hetairoi(companions)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.

Alexander at the Granicus

Detail from the Alexander Sarcophagus

Alexander and Dareios at Issus

Detail from the Alexander Mosaic