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    Pasargadae, Alexander ordered his architect Aristobulus to decorate the interior of the sepulchral chamber of Cyrus's tomb. Afterwards, Alexander travelled...
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    were the lost contemporary histories of the campaign by Ptolemy and Aristobulus and, for his later books, Nearchus. One of Arrian's main aims in writing...
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    and Alexander of Judaea, were cousins who both descended from Alexander Jannaeus. She was known for her great beauty, as was her brother Aristobulus III...
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    Ptolemy I Soter (category Historians who accompanied Alexander the Great)
    primary sources (alongside the history of Aristobulus of Cassandreia) for his own extant Anabasis of Alexander, and hence large parts of Ptolemy's history...
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    Aristobulus I, becoming only the high-priest. Upon Hyrcanus' death in 104 BCE, however, Aristobulus I jailed his three brothers (including Alexander Jannaeus)...
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    Julius Caesar attempted to install Aristobulus on the throne; however, Aristobulus was poisoned, and his son Alexander, who was preparing to support him...
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    Seleucus I Nicator (category Royal pages of Alexander the Great)
    Victorious') was a Macedonian Greek general, officer and successor of Alexander the Great who went on to found the eponymous Seleucid Empire, led by the...
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    out entirely. However, he spared the children of Aristobulus, including Agrippa, Herod and Aristobulus Minor as well as the daughters, Herodias and Mariamne...
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    son Aristobulus that the annexation of Idumea, Samaria and Galilee and the consolidation of Jewish settlement in Trans-Jordan was completed. Alexander Jannai...
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    Enmebaragesi (Sumerian: π’‚—π’ˆ¨π’ˆπ’„„π’‹› EnmebΓ‘rgisi [EN-ME-BARA2-GI4-SE]) originally Mebarasi (π’ˆ¨π’ˆπ’‹›) was the penultimate king of the first dynasty of Kish...
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