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The accompanying metadata lists key figures (Philip II, Olympias, Perdiccas, Parmenios, Cleitus, etc.), places (Macedonia, Greece, Persia, Asia Minor, Egypt, Babylon, India), and thematic subjects (military history, classical literature, biography).
@plutarch_lives_alexander:document {creator: @plutarch, language: "grc", subjects: ["Alexander the Great","Ancient Greece","Ancient Rome","Biography","Historical Biography","Military History","Ancient Persia","Classical Literature"]}
@file_pinax -> documents -> @plutarch_lives_alexander:document {title: "Plutarch's Lives: Alexander the Great"}
@file_plutarch_lives_alexanderpage_227 -> contains -> @marriage_olympias_philip:event
@file_plutarch_lives_alexanderpage_229 -> contains -> @dream_olympias:event
@file_plutarch_lives_alexanderpage_231 -> contains -> @seal_dream_philip:event
@file_plutarch_lives_alexanderpage_233 -> contains -> @prophecy_aristander:event
@file_plutarch_lives_alexanderpage_235 -> contains -> @battle_granicus:event
@file_plutarch_lives_alexanderpage_237 -> contains -> @battle_thebes:event
@file_plutarch_lives_alexanderpage_239 -> contains -> @death_cleitus:event
@file_plutarch_lives_alexanderpage_241 -> contains -> @oracle_delphi:event
@file_plutarch_lives_alexanderpage_243 -> contains -> @meeting_diogenes:event
@file_plutarch_lives_alexanderpage_245 -> contains -> @letter_to_aristotle:document
@file_plutarch_lives_alexanderpage_247 -> contains -> @inscription:event
@marriage_olympias_philip:event {description: "Olympias married Philip II of Macedon", participants: [@olympias, @philip]}
@dream_olympias:event {description: "Olympias dreamed that a thunder‑bolt fell upon her womb", participants: [@olympias]}
@seal_dream_philip:event {description: "Philip dreamed of placing a seal, shaped like a lion, on his wife's womb", participants: [@philip]}
@prophecy_aristander:event {description: "Aristander of Telmessus foretold that Olympias was pregnant with a bold, lion‑like son", seer: @aristander_telmessus, subject: @alexander_great}
@battle_granicus:event {description: "Battle of the Granicus River", when: @date_334_BC, location: @granicus, combatants: [@alexander_great, @philip]}
@battle_thebes:event {description: "Alexander’s assault on Thebes", when: @date_335_BC, location: @thebes, combatants: [@alexander_great]}
@death_cleitus:event {description: "Cleitus the Black was slain by Alexander during a drunken quarrel", victim: @cleitus, perpetrator: @alexander_great}
@oracle_delphi:event {description: "Delphi oracle addressed to Alexander", location: @delphi, recipient: @alexander_great}
@meeting_diogenes:event {description: "Alexander met Diogenes of Sinope at Corinth", location: @corinth, participants: [@alexander_great, @diogenes_sinope]}
@letter_to_aristotle:document {author: @alexander_great, addressee: @aristotle, content: "Letter concerning philosophical matters"}
@inscription:document {commissioned_by: @alexander_great, text: "Alexander son of Philip and all Greeks except the Lacedaemonians from the Barbarians who dwell in Asia", destination: @mother: @olympias}
@aristander_telmessus:person {role: "seer", origin: @telmessus}
@telmessus:place {region: @greece}
@aristobulus:person {role: "historian"}
@leonidas:person {role: "foster‑father, tutor"}
@lysimachus:person {role: "tutor"}
@perdiccas:person {role: "general"}
@parmenios:person {role: "general"}
@cleitus:person {epithet: "Black Cleitus"}
@theagenes:person {role: "Thracian leader"}
@theodectas:person {role: "citizen of Phaselis"}
@lysippus:person {role: "sculptor"}
@granicus:place {region: @asia_minor}
@thebes:place {region: @greece}
@delphi:place {region: @greece}
@corinth:place {region: @greece}
@greece:place {country: @united_kingdom}
@asia_minor:place {country: @united_kingdom}
@philip:person {full_name: "Philip II of Macedon"}
@olympias:person {full_name: "Olympias"}
@alexander_great:person {full_name: "Alexander III of Macedon", epithet: "the Great"}
@plutarch:person {full_name: "Plutarch"}
@diogenes_sinope:person {full_name: "Diogenes of Sinope"}
@mother:person {reference: @olympias}
@date_334_BC:date_334_BC
@date_335_BC:date_335_BC
@alexander_great -> mother -> @olympias
@alexander_great -> father -> @philip
@olympias -> married to -> @philip
@aristander_telmessus -> predicted -> @alexander_great {nature: "bold, lion‑like"}
@aristobulus -> recorded -> @battle_granicus
@leonidas -> foster‑father of -> @alexander_great
@lysimachus -> tutor of -> @alexander_great
@perdiccas -> commanded -> @alexander_great
@parmenios -> commanded -> @alexander_great
@cleitus -> killed -> @alexander_great {context: "drunken quarrel"}
@theagenes -> led -> @thracian_forces:organization
@theodectas -> honored by -> @alexander_great {event: @statue_theodectas:event}
@alexander_great -> commissioned -> @statues_by_lysippus:document {artist: @lysippus}
@statues_by_lysippus:document {type: "sculpture", subject: "Alexander"}
@alexander_great -> wrote -> @letter_to_aristotle:document
@alexander_great -> ordered -> @inscription:document
@alexander_great -> consulted -> @oracle_delphi:event
@alexander_great -> met -> @diogenes_sinope:event
@alexander_great -> fought at -> @battle_granicus:event
@alexander_great -> fought at -> @battle_thebes:eventClick to expand and load individual components
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