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Ancient Greek: The Wars Of The Diadochi

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In ancient Greek, diadochos is a noun that seems from the verb diadechesthai which translate to succeed to. As well as a compound of dia and deschesthai which means receive (Liddell, Scott). The Diadochi were the rival generals, families, and friends of Alexander the Great. They fought for control over his empire after his death in 323 BC. The Wars of the Diadochi would in fact mark the beginning of the Hellenistic period (Grote,1869). Essentially, Diadochi were the group of people that would be the successors to Alexander the Great and would in return be fighting to determine who would in fact receive control over the land and territories of which Alexander the Great empire possessed. Diadochi is in sense a term driven from the roots of other
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