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CTCWeb Glossary: A (abnocto to aveste) (3455 words) |
 | Cleopatra, was defeated by Agrippa at the battle of Actium in 31 BCE; he was made co-consul in 44 BCE; he married a politically active woman, Fulvia, who died in 40 BCE; Antony was part of the second triumvirate with Marcus Aemilius Lepidus and Octavian from 43-30 BCE. |
| Plato who was concerned with natural phenomena; tutor of Alexander the Great; Aristotle began teaching in Athens in 335 BCE; during that same year he founded the Lyceum (Peripatetic school); author of the Poetics, The Metaphysics, Nicomachean Ethics, among other works; when Aristotle dies in 322 BCE, Theophrates becomes head of the Lyceum. |
| Persian invasion of 480 BCE, the original fortification of Athens' Acropolis were destroyed and were rebuilt in 478 BCE; the 5th century building program of Pericles resulted in the classical structures for which the Athenian Acropolis is famous; in 404 BCE the Acropolis was destroyed again by the Spartan and was rebuilt in 394 BCE. |
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Agathokles * People, Places, & Things * Greek Mythology: From the Iliad to the Fall of the Last Tyrant (589 words) |
| (361-289 BCE) The son of Karkinus (Carcinus), a successful pottery maker, and a native of the island of Sicily; born in the city of Thermae circa 361 BCE. |
| After the death of Timoleon (circa 300 BCE), Agathokles was banished by the oligarchy and took refuge in southern Italy; he helped organize the defense of his father’s hometown of Rhegium from aggression by Syracuse and thereby toppled the oligarchy which had banished him. |
| Agathokles was assassinated circa 289 BCE and, as a testament to his despicable reputation, an attempt was made to have his name erased from all public records. |
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