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I've mostly been away from editing for two years..move, house, baby...the usual things.
I'm hoping to be around more now, but we'll see...

Subpages

To Do List

  • Regions of Ancient Greece
  • Map of whole Hellenic world
  • Make more redirects
  • Transfer histories from prefecture articles.
  • List of Ancient Greek tribes - consistency
  • Greco-Persian Wars
  • Significance
  • Greece (Rise of Athens, Tension Athens-Sparta, Peloponnesian War)
  • Persia
  • Greco-Persian relationships (Persian interference in Greece (before and after Peloponnesian War); Philip II and Alexander)
  • Military
  • Legacy
  • Greek art/literature/history
  • Parthenon
  • "Freedom" vs "Not"
  • List of Greek Commanders during the Greco-Persian Wars
  • List of Persian Commander during the Greco-Persian Wars
  • Cimon
  • Delian League
  • Athenian Empire
  • Philip II of Macedon
  • Rise of Macedon
  • Map of Philip's campaigns
  • Integrate Buckler's thoughts on the end of the Sacred War
  • Third Sacred War
  • Maps of Third Sacred War
  • Peace of Philocrates
  • Battle of Crocus Field
  • Map of the area
  • Significance
  • Battle of Chaeronea (338 BC)
  • More refs from other authors
  • Sources
  • Significance
  • Alexander the Great
  • Wars of Alexander the Great
  • Alexander's Successors/Diadochi
  • Wars of the Successors/Diadochi
  • Hellenistic Period
  • Hellenistic Civilisation

Useful refs

  • New Perseus [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/collection?collection=Perseus:collection:Greco-Roman]
  • Herodotus [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0126&query=book%3D%231]
  • Thucydides [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0200]
  • Xenophon, Hellenica [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0206&layout=&loc=1.1]
  • Diodorus [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=Diod.+17.117.1]
  • Diodorus (books 18 onwards) [http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/home.html]
  • Cornelius Nepos, Themistocles (& others)[http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/nepos.htm#Themistocles]
  • Plutarch, Themistocles [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0182;query=chapter%3D%23235;layout=;loc=Them.%2020.1]
  • Plutarch, Lives [http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/home.html]
  • Anabasis Alexandri [http://websfor.org/alexander/arrian/book1a.asp]
  • Alexander, Plutarch [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0243]
  • Justin's epitome of Pompeius [http://www.forumromanum.org/literature/justin/english/index.html]
  • Photius's epitome, including Arrian's Continuation (codex 92) and Dexippus History(codex 82). [http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/photius_03bibliotheca.htm#92]
  • The beginning of Pausanias's transcription of Cornelius Nepos (re. Epaminondas): [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0160;query=chapter%3D%23291;layout=;loc=9.12.1]
  • Classics dictionary: [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=QlQJAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA484&dq=right+wing+phalanx&ei=QCTRSfP4CZ7GywT4oojWDA#PPA484,M1]

{{1911}}

  • Cambridge Ancient History v. 4: [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=nNDpPqeDjo0C&pg=RA2-PA485&dq=Battle+of+Pedasus+497+BC&ei=Kj3rSZCZD6b0ygSIn_SYBQ]
  • Cambridge Ancient History v. 5: [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Nqbz8Emo3PIC&pg=PA45&dq=Battle+of+Eurymedon]
  • Cambridge Ancient History v. 6: [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=vx251bK988gC&pg=RA1-PA97&dq=corinthian+war&cd=1#v=onepage&q=corinthian%20war&f=false Corinthian War] [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=vx251bK988gC&pg=RA6-PA719-IA4&dq=macedon+and+north-west+Greece&cd=1#v=onepage&q=macedon%20and%20north-west%20Greece&f=false Macedon]
  • Fine J, The Ancient Greeks: [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=NjeM0kcp8swC&pg=PA269&dq=Ionian+revolt]
  • Sealey R, A history of the Greek city states, ca. 700-338 B.C. [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=kAvbhZrv4gUC&pg=PA248&lpg=PA248&dq=Siege+of+Eion&source=bl&ots=tLIFwR94wE&sig=3AJaQksr03Xp1JeUjt9VQIC6GQg&hl=en&ei=gvorSrOnDIGe-Aa3m7yQCQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3#PPA250,M1]
  • Kagan D, The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=fCEmz4mcZFsC&pg=PA44&lpg=PA44&dq=Siege+of+Eion&source=bl&ots=0U6F3iX5lL&sig=az8ewIwJ30wFgMbDPY487pYCDK4&hl=en&ei=tv0rSub1I4LX-AbBw8XuCA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5]
  • Dandamaev M, A political history of the Achaemenid empire [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=jIA3AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA286&dq=Peace+of+Antalcidas&lr=]
  • De Souza/France, War and peace in ancient and medieval history [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=9j7zoDeWTdwC&pg=PA35&dq=Peloponnesian+War+Persia+Sparta+treaty&lr=&ei=MBhjSob0KJWKzQTYiqDZDw]
  • Cawkwell, The Greek Wars [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=sYie-IZq1ysC&pg=PA134&dq=Battle+of+Eurymedon&lr=]
  • Powell, Athens and Sparta [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=YPYNAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA19&dq=Battle+of+Eurymedon&lr=]
  • Hornblower, The Greek world, 479-323 B.C. [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=wvtyijSRcKUC&pg=PA22&dq=Battle+of+Eurymedon WOTDL] [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=wvtyijSRcKUC&pg=PA229&dq=rise+of+macedon&lr=&cd=47#v=onepage&q=rise%20of%20macedon&f=false Macedon]
  • Heckel et al, Alexander the Great, a new history [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=jbaPwpvt8ZQC&pg=PA212&dq=Alexander+the+Great+homosexual&lr=#v=onepage&q=&f=false]
  • Sacks et al, A Dictionary of the Ancient Greek World [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=3gbLeHzK1VAC&pg=PA16&dq=Alexander+the+Great+bisexual&lr=#v=onepage&q=&f=false]
  • Worthington, Alexander the Great [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=jFoutVCfuaUC&pg=PA159&dq=Alexander+the+Great+bisexual&lr=#v=onepage&q=&f=false]
  • Green, Diodorus Siculus - Greek History 480-431 BC [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=InAjXetbsBkC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Diodorus+siculus#v=onepage&q=&f=false]
  • Buckley, Aspects of Greek History 750 BC-323 BC [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=MrJ101I4gdQC&pg=PA444&dq=rise+of+thebes&cd=9#v=onepage&q=rise%20of%20thebes&f=false Thebes] [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=GRnEg1OP2EQC&pg=PT357&dq=rise+of+macedon&lr=&cd=11#v=onepage&q=rise%20of%20macedon&f=false Macedon]
  • Buckler, Philip II and the Sacred War [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=wkNCAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA177&dq=siege+of+methone&cd=4#v=onepage&q=siege%20of%20methone&f=false]
  • Davis, 100 Decisive Battles [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=nv73QlQs9ocC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Paul+K+Davis&source=bl&ots=P-chTU2Sk2&sig=NwvK3HGTksSsqeYuDux6kJseGwA&hl=en&sa=X&ei=iE86UNewLIqy0QXNw4CQCw&ved=0CDsQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=Paul%20K%20Davis&f=false]

Awards and such like

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|style="font-size: x-large; padding: 0; vertical-align: bottom; height: 1.1em;" | The Reviewers Award

style="vertical-align: top; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | In appreciation of a thorough FAC review and providing several good ideas on improving the Byzantine navy article, Constantine ✍ 10:45, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

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|style="font-size: x-large; padding: 0; vertical-align: bottom; height: 1.1em;" | The Epic Barnstar

style="vertical-align: top; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | For consistently making high-quality articles on the Greco-Persian Wars. Constantine ✍ 17:29, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

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|style="font-size: x-large; padding: 0; vertical-align: middle; height: 1.1em;" | The Original Barnstar

style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | Reading First Crusade, I saw your work for an article under review that could have been quick-failed outright. For carrying on regardless by completing a thumbs-up evaluation, and doing a lot of work on the article yourself, despite the fact the article doesn't appear as if it's going to be able to pass, I award you this barnstar. Otumba (talk) 23:20, 22 July 2009 (UTC)

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|style="font-size: x-large; padding: 0; vertical-align: middle; height: 1.1em;" | The Half Barnstar

style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | To MinisterForBadTimes, for demonstrating incredible knowledge, patience, and most of all, an abundance of apparently innate good faith while working on the lead section for Alexander the Great with GK1973, I award you this Half Barnstar, as a demonstration that the two of you together constitute one truly outstanding resource for this encyclopedia. Unschool 03:01, 10 September 2009 (UTC)

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style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | For your extensive contributions to the Military history WikiProject, as evidenced by your nomination in the 2009 "Military Historian of the Year" awards, I am delighted to present you with this WikiProject Barnstar. TomStar81 (Talk) 11:17, 8 January 2010 (UTC)

My Contributions

==Improved to featured article status==

==Improved to A-class status==

==Improved to Good Article status==

==Good Topics created==

==New articles==

==New infoboxes/templates==

==Greatly expanded/re-written==

==Substantially reorganised/re-written==