April 16, 1174 BCE — Odysseus reclaims the throne of Ithaca
Tradition holds that this is the day that the Odyssey ended: that Ulysses returned to Ithaca, recruited his son and...
January 24, 2023
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1117 BCE — Delilah cuts Samson’s hair
Samson is one of the great heroes of Judges era of the Israelites. A judge and priest, he was also...
January 19, 2023
469 BCE — Socrates is born
Socrates is one of the most influential, and also most enigmatic, figures in Western Philosophy. An Athenian who lived at...
December 14, 2022
May 26, 428 BCE — Plato is born
Oddly, not the Platonic Ideal of the philosopher (although in fairness, he would have been the first to point that...
December 9, 2022
April 16, 384 BCE — Aristotle is born
The third of the three great Ancient Greek philosophers was the student of Plato (who, in his turn, had been...
December 4, 2022
July 20, 356 BCE — Alexander the Great is born
One of the greatest conquerors and military leaders the world has ever known was born in Pella, the capital of...
November 29, 2022
May 22, 334 BCE — Alexander the Great defeats the Persian Army in the Battle of the Granicus
In the first of three major engagements during his Persian campaign, Alexander the Great and his forces defeated a numerically...
November 24, 2022
October 1, 331 BCE — Alexander the Great defeats Darius III at Arbela
In the short, glorious history of Alexander the Great’s empire-building, this victory was probably the most significant. The battle is...
November 19, 2022
January 10, 49 BCE — Caesar crosses the Rubicon
“Crossing the Rubicon” is now an expression for passing the point of no return: this is the original incident from...
October 19, 2022
February 14, 44 BCE — Julius Caesar attends his final Lupercalia
The ancient feast of the god Lupercus, Lupercalia was an annual three day festival that ran from February 13 –...
October 14, 2022
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