macedon

Suppose upon Cyrus' conquest of the Lydian Empire, Kroisos' Greek subjects give in to the Persian demands and rebel against their overlord. With their autonomy intact, they don't get into the conflict that escalated into what it did IOTL. So, in the short run, we have a Greek Western Anatolia...

The Saw-Tunisia-238 BC Hamilcar Barca stood amidst the carnage of his great Victory, having just ended the threat of the Mercenary Rebellion. As he moved amongst the bodies of the slain, his men began counting prisoners, there were some 40,000 assorted mercenary troops from all over the Empire...

“For all that has been said of the love that certain natures (on shore) have professed to feel for it, for all the celebrations it had been the object of in prose and song, the sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.” – Joseph Conrad...

Hold your horses: I'm well aware that this would likely never happen; when Alexander died in Babylon that sealed any possibility of this which was already very low during his life time if not nearly impossible. My question; if Alexander or one of his Diadochi crossed into China from the Tarim...

So Cotys was the King of the united Odrysian Kingdom, being murdered by students of Plato. What if instead of being killed, he managed to survive? In a years time Philip of Macedon becomes King of Macedonia - if the Thracian Kingdom is still united, could we see Philip marry into that royal...

Of satraps and kings Prelude Megos Alexandros III Argead The ascension of Philip II to the Makedonian throne in 359 BCE signaled a defining moment in Makedonian, Greek, and even world history. Makedon, a largely irrelevant backwater in the Greek world for generations, had been...

When did the last vestige of the Alexanderine Empire collapse? OOC: Alexanderine: as in the Empire established by Alexander the Great.