ALEJANDRO MAGNO

                                   ALEJANDRO MAGNO

(Alejandro III) Rey de Macedonia nació en Pella, Macedonia en el año 356 a.C y murió en Babilonia en el año 323 a. C. Alejandro Magno dedicó los primeros años de su reinado a imponer su autoridad sobre los pueblos sometidos a Macedonia, que habían aprovechado la muerte de Filipo para rebelarse. Alejandro recorrió victorioso el Asia Menor (batalla de Gránico, 334), Siria (Issos, 333), Fenicia (asedio de Tiro, 332), Egipto y Mesopotamia (Gaugamela, 331), hasta tomar las capitales persas de Susa (331) y Persépolis (330).

Una vez conquistada la capital de los persas, Alejandro licenció a las tropas griegas que le habían acompañado durante la campaña y se hizo proclamar emperador ocupando el puesto de los Aqueménidas. Enseguida lanzó nuevas campañas de conquista hacia el este: derrotó y dio muerte a Bessos y sometió Partia, Aria, Drangiana, Aracosia, Bactriana y Sogdiana. Con la conquista del Imperio Persa, Alejandro descubrió el grado de civilización de los orientales, a los que antes había tenido por bárbaros. Concibió entonces la idea de unificar a los griegos con los persas en un único imperio en el que convivieran bajo una cultura de síntesis (año 324). Para ello integró un gran contingente de soldados persas en su ejército, organizó en Susa la «boda de Oriente con Occidente» (matrimonio simultáneo de miles de macedonios con mujeres persas) y él mismo se casó con dos princesas orientales: una princesa de Sogdiana y la hija de Darío III.

La temprana muerte de Alejandro a los 33 años, víctima del paludismo, le impidió consolidar el imperio que había creado y relanzar sus conquistas. El imperio no sobrevivió a la muerte de su creador. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

TEMPLE OF ADRIANO 

 The only preserved Roman temple today eleven Corinthian columns 15 feet high on a podium four meters high. The remains preserved temple are embedded in a building of the seventeenth century by Carlo Fontana. The building functioned Bag Roma.Era one octástilo temple had 15 columns along (4 are missing) with a naos

   THE ORACLE OF DELPHI

 It is a great holy place which was mainly dedicated to the god Apollo, who was at the center and its great temple which the Greeks were to ask the gods on matters that disturbed them. l Oracle of Delphi, located in Greece, on the site of what was the ancient city of Delphi, at the foot of Mount Parnassos. Amid the mountains of Phocis, 700 m above sea level and 9.5 km Corinth Gulf.  

The Greeks considered Delphi, in a narrow gorge, there was a sacred place, a santuario.El myth explains the origin of Delphi when Apollo, in the guise of a dolphin, jumps to a Cretan ship and crew pushes to follow and found a sanctuary. The place belongs to Gea arriving so when Apolo is installed, you must assign it an enclosure. But first he must kill to be guarding it, the dragon Python.

  

                                                        ABU SIMBEL TEMPLE

This is the temple of Abu Simbel in Egypt which is on the western bank of Lake Estemetros Nassser of 33 high and 38 meters wide at the entrance of the larger of the two temples, look seated four statues representing all of them Ramses II. At his feet, numerous small statues, representing different family of Pharaoh. The Great Temple of Abu Simbel is one of the best preserved in Egypt.

It was built by Ramses II. The largest of these is one of the best preserved of all Egipto.La construction was planned so that 2 times a year when the sun rose over the horizon, its rays penetrated through the door and after project into the great room of eight columns ,. the temple is dedicated to the worship of himself Ramses

 

                                                    WOUNDED LIONESS

This work is a lioness that is damaged with three arrows stuck in his body, and looks like suffering from pain. This work is done in relief because it only sees a portion of the lioness. Represents the time the lioness, wounded to death, and can not hold onto his hindquarters trailing lifeless and powerless while looking up his nose roaring to life and see that you can hardly lift.

It is a fragment belonging to the low relief called "Ashurbanipal hunting lion" and decorating the palace of Ashurbanipal in Nineveh. The Assyrian Empire in Mesopotamia appears to 2150. C., after the Neo-Sumerian hegemony and ends its domain 612 BC. Therefore this is a work belonging to the period of Assyrian decline but at the same time most artistic splendor,the lion represents the king Assurbanipal.

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The shuttles were prehistoric constructions Its function was as a collective grave, and was built with large stones and cyclopean technique, ie, placed in dry, without cement or argamasa.son almost circular for its exterior, and the burial chamber is rectangular, bounded by large flat slabs arranged vertically.

THE TALAIOTS OR TAYALOTS


The talaiots, or talayots, are broze age megaliths on the islands of minorca and majorca forming part of the  talaiotic Culture or Talaiotic Period. They date back to the late second millennium and early first millennium BC. There are at least 274 of them, in, near, or related to Talaiotic settlements and Talaiotic navetes. While some certainly had a defensive purpose, the use of others is not clearly understood. Some believe them to have served the purpose of lookout or signalling towers, as on Minorca, where they form a network. These monuments pre-date the taulas, which are usually found nearby.