Marsyas of Pella (Ancient Greek: Μαρσύας Περιάνδρου Πελλαῖος; c. 356 BC – c. 294 BC[citation needed]), son of Periander, was a Greek historian. According...
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Olympus. Alternatively, the latter was said to be Marsyas' son and/or pupil and eromenos. Marsyas was an expert player on the double-piped double reed...
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Makedon (mythology) (category Children of Zeus)
called Emathia according to Strabo, which according to Marsyas of Pella was until then a part of Thrace. Μακεδών (Makedón) is related to the Greek μᾰκεδνός...
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to later tradition the second king of the ancient kingdom of Macedonia. The Macedonian historian Marsyas of Pella relates the following aetiological story...
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Ancient Macedonians (redirect from Culture of Ancient Macedonians)
Perdiccas III of Macedon written by the Macedonian general and statesman Antipater. The Macedonian historians Marsyas of Pella and Marsyas of Philippi wrote...
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list, Marsyas of Pella, Theopompos, and Justin all agree that Caranus was Perdiccas' father. Furthermore, Plutarch claimed in his biography of Alexander...
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Manetho Marsyas of Pella Marsyas of Philippi Menander of Ephesus Neanthes of Cyzicus Nicander Paeon of Amathus Palaephatus Philinus of Agrigentum Philochorus...
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list, Marsyas of Pella, Theopompos, and Justin all agree that Caranus was Perdiccas' father. Furthermore, Plutarch claimed in his biography of Alexander...
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Macedonia (ancient kingdom) (redirect from Kingdom of Macedon)
as the history of an Illyrian war fought by Perdiccas III written by Antipater. The Macedonian historians Marsyas of Pella and Marsyas of Philippi wrote...
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According to Marsyas of Pella (c. 330 BC), Pierus was the son of Makednos by a local woman and brother of Amathus (Emathus), eponym of Emathia but Solinus...
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Critophemus. He was often called Marsyas the Younger (Greek: Μαρσύας ὁ Νεώτερος) to distinguish him from Marsyas of Pella, with whom he has frequently been...
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Marsyas is a satyr who had a music contest with Apollo. Marsyas may also refer to: Marsyas (horse), a French Thoroughbred racehorse 343158 Marsyas, an...
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site of substantial archaeological activity, as numerous important findings have been unearthed. According to Justin (7.1) citing Marsyas of Pella Caranus...
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in Egypt Marsyas of Pella (356–294) historian Marsyas of Philippi (3rd century BC) historian Hippolochus (early 3rd century BC) description of a Macedonian...
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Alexander. Work of Hieronymus of Cardia On the education of Alexander and Macedonian history by Marsyas of Pella Work of Medius of Larissa Work of Nearchus,...
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under the command of Themison of Samos and Marsyas of Pella, while the right was entrusted to Hegesippus of Halicarnassus and Pleistias of Cos, the chief...
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and poet Marinus – philosopher Marsyas of Pella – writer Matris of Thebes – rhetor Matron of Pitane – parodist Maximus of Smyrna – anatomist and philosopher...
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Emathus (category Mythology of Macedonia (ancient kingdom))
apparently first called son of Makednos in Marsyas of Pella (c. 330 BC), who made Emathos and Pieros the eponymous founders of these two regions in Ancient...
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Pleuratos, the Illyrian king named by Didymus (on the authority of Marsyas of Pella?)." The Cambridge Ancient History, Volume 6: The Fourth Century BC...
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Zeuxis (painter) (category Ancient Pella)
an assembly of gods, Eros crowned with roses, Alcmene, Menelaus, an athlete, Pan, Marsyas chained, and an old woman. King Archelaus I of Macedon employed...
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Apollo (redirect from Cult of Apollo)
burial and nailed Marsyas' flayed skin to a nearby pine-tree as a lesson to the others. Marsyas' blood turned into the river Marsyas. But Apollo soon repented...
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Ancient Macedonian language (category Culture of Macedonia (ancient kingdom))
region of Macedonia, such as the Pella curse tablet. This local variety is usually classified by scholars as a dialect of Northwest Doric Greek, and occasionally...
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Antigonus I Monophthalmus (redirect from Antigonus I of Macedon)
Polemaeus, father of Polemaeus. His nephew Telesphorus may have been the son of a third brother. He also had a younger half-brother, Marsyas, from his mother's...
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Amphipolis (category Populated places of the Byzantine Empire)
given in the lexicon of Photius) offers a different explanation apparently given by Marsyas, son of Periander: that a large proportion of the population lived...
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Antigonid dynasty (section Family tree of Antigonids)
which ruled the kingdom of Macedon during the Hellenistic period. Founded by Antigonus I Monophthalmus, a general and successor of Alexander the Great, the...
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Mantineia (section Types of folk songs)
exhibited at National Archaeological Museum of Athens, depicts the mythical contest between Apollo and Marsyas, with a Greek pandouris being played by a...
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Takht-i Sangin (section Temple of Oxus)
little bronze statuette of a Silenus, perhaps Marsyas, playing the aulos, with a Greek inscription reading "[in fulfilment of] a vow, Atrosokes dedicated...
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Greco-Bactrian Kingdom (redirect from King of Bactria)
diadem, Temple of the Oxus, Takht-i Sangin, 3rd–2nd century BCE. This could also be a portrait of Seleucus I. Hellenistic silenus Marsyas from Takhti Sangin...
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famous group Athena and Marsyas of Myron, dedicated on the acropolis a few years earlier. The movement also recalls that of the South metope XXVII. Then...
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Aetolia Marpsius Marriage in ancient Greece Marsyas Marsyas Painter Marvels (Theopompus) Maschalismos Mases Mask of Agamemnon Mastos Mastos Painter Material...
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