Chalcis (/ ˈ k æ l s ɪ s / KAL-siss; Ancient Greek & Katharevousa: Χαλκίς, romanized: Chalkís) or Chalkida, also spelled Halkida (Modern Greek: Χαλκίδα, pronounced ), is the chief town of the island of Euboea or Evia in Greece, situated on the Euripus Strait at its narrowest point. The name is preserved from antiquity and is derived from the Greek χαλκός (copper, bronze ...

The history of the island of Euboea is largely that of its two principal cities, Chalcis and Eretria, both mentioned in the Catalogue of Ships.Both cities were settled by Ionian Greeks from Attica, and would eventually settle numerous colonies in Magna Graecia and Sicily, such as Cumae and Rhegium, and on the coast of Macedonia.This opened new trade routes to the Greeks, and …

The Battle of Artemisium or Artemision was a series of naval engagements over three days during the second Persian invasion of Greece.The battle took place simultaneously with the land battle at Thermopylae, in August or September 480 BC, off the coast of Euboea and was fought between an alliance of Greek city-states, including Sparta, Athens, Corinth and others, and the …

Chalkidiki (/ k æ l ˈ k ɪ d ɪ k i /; Greek: Χαλκιδική [xalciðiˈci], also spelled Halkidiki, is a peninsula and regional unit of Greece, part of the region of Central Macedonia, in the geographic region of Macedonia in Northern Greece.The autonomous Mount Athos region constitutes the easternmost part of the peninsula, but not of the regional unit.. The capital of Chalkidiki is ...

The Herodian dynasty was a royal dynasty of Idumaean (Edomite) descent, ruling the Herodian Kingdom and later the Herodian Tetrarchy, as a vassal state of the Roman Empire.The Herodian dynasty began with Herod the Great, who assumed the throne of Judea, with Roman support, bringing down the century long Hasmonean Kingdom.His kingdom lasted until his death in 4 …

Iamblichus (/ aɪ ˈ æ m b l ɪ k ə s /; Greek: Ἰάμβλιχος Iámblichos; Aramaic: ???????????????????? Yamlīḵū; c. 245 – c. 325) was a Syrian neoplatonic philosopher of Arabic origin. He determined a direction later taken by neoplatonism. Iamblichus was also the biographer of the Greek mystic, philosopher, and mathematician Pythagoras. In addition to his philosophical ...

Jamblique (Iamblicos), né vers 250 [1] à Chalcis ad Belum et mort vers 330, est un philosophe néoplatonicien d'origine arabe [2], [3].. Il entre vers 275 à l'école néoplatonicienne de Rome, dirigée par Porphyre de Tyr (lui-même élève de Plotin).Il retourne ensuite en Syrie enseigner la philosophie à Apamée.Jamblique est le troisième scolarque de l'école néoplatonicienne de …

In classical antiquity, writers such as Herodotus, Plato, Xenophon, Athenaeus and many others explored aspects of homosexuality in Greek society.The most widespread and socially significant form of same-sex sexual relations in ancient Greece amongst elite circles was between adult men and pubescent or adolescent boys, known as pederasty (marriages in Ancient Greece between …

The Herodian Tetrarchy was formed following the death of Herod the Great in 4 BCE, when his kingdom was divided between his sons Herod Archelaus as ethnarch, Herod Antipas and Philip as tetrarchs in inheritance, while Herod's sister Salome I briefly ruled a toparchy of Jamnia.Upon the deposition of Herod Archelaus in 6 CE, his territories (Judea, Samaria and Idumea) were …

The Greek Dark Ages is the period of Greek history from the end of the Mycenaean palatial civilization, around 1100 BC, to the beginning of the Archaic age, around 750 BC.. Archaeological evidence shows a widespread collapse of Bronze Age civilization in the Eastern Mediterranean world at the outset of the period, as the great palaces and cities of the Mycenaeans were …