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Blood & Gold
A History of the Rise and Fall of the Argead Empire



"Where is Great Alexander?"
"Great Alexander lives and reigns."

--Greek Proverb

*Note: As in my previous versions of this timeline, I have taken great pains to write all names, both of persons and places, in romanized Ancient Greek. I feel that this best reproduces the authenticity and feeling of antiquity I wish to achieve, as well as does the most possible justice to the world of this timeline. After all, Alexander the Great was known to his contemporaries as "Alexandros", never "Alexander". Likewise all dates are in the reckoning of the Macedonian Calendar, though I will include years from the Western Calendar as much as possible to form a frame of reference for the reader. In this timeline, year one of the Macedonian Calendar begins in 331 B.C. after Alexander's victory at Gaugamela and entrance into Babylon--itself a nod to the OTL calendar of the same name, which began similarly with the return of Seleucus to Babylon 312 B.C.
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