Alexander's forces in the Levant, as a …
Years: 332BCE - 332BCE
Alexander's forces in the Levant, as a part of the Macedonian conquest of Syria, occupy Baalbek, the ancient center for the worship of the Phoenician god Baal, in 332.
The Greeks, who identify Baal with Helios, call the city Heliopolis (“City of the Sun”).
Locations
People
Groups
- Polytheism (“paganism”)
- Persian people
- Macedon, Argead Kingdom of
- Phoenicia, Achaemenid
- Achaemenid, or First Persian, Empire
- Alexander, Empire of
- Greece, Hellenistic
