User:MinisterForBadTimes

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Greco-Persian-Wars: This user helped to make Battle of Marathon an A-class article. This user helped to make Battle of Artemisium an A-class article. This user helped to make Battle of Salamis an A-class article. This user helped to make Greco-Persian Wars a good article. This user helped to make Ionian Revolt a good article. This user helped to make Siege of Naxos (499 BC) a good article. This user helped to make Battle of Lade a good article. This user helped to make First Persian invasion of Greece a good article. This user helped to restore Siege of Eretria to a good article. This user helped to make Second Persian invasion of Greece a good article. This user helped to restore Battle of Thermopylae to an good article. This user helped to make Battle of Plataea a good article. This user helped to make Battle of Mycale a good article. This user helped to make Themistocles a good article. This user helped to make Wars of the Delian League a good article. This user helped to make Battle of the Eurymedon a good article. This user helped to make Ionian Revolt a good topic. This user helped to make First Persian invasion of Greece a good topic. This user helped to make Second Persian invasion of Greece a good topic.
Rise of Macedon: This user helped to make Battle of Chaeronea (338 BC) a good article.
This user has been on Wikipedia for 16 years and 17 days.
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WikiProject Military history.


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 [1]
  • Herodotus [2]
  • Thucydides [3]
  • Xenophon, Hellenica [4]
  • Diodorus [5]
  • Diodorus (books 18 onwards) [6]
  • Cornelius Nepos, Themistocles (& others)[7]
  • Plutarch, Themistocles [8]
  • Plutarch, Lives [9]
  • Anabasis Alexandri [10]
  • Alexander, Plutarch [11]
  • Justin's epitome of Pompeius [12]
  • Photius's epitome, including Arrian's Continuation (codex 92) and Dexippus History(codex 82). [13]
  • The beginning of Pausanias's transcription of Cornelius Nepos (re. Epaminondas): [14]
  • Classics dictionary: [15]

Public Domain This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)

  • Cambridge Ancient History v. 4: [16]
  • Cambridge Ancient History v. 5: [17]
  • Cambridge Ancient History v. 6: Corinthian War Macedon
  • Fine J, The Ancient Greeks: [18]
  • Sealey R, A history of the Greek city states, ca. 700-338 B.C. [19]
  • Kagan D, The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War [20]
  • Dandamaev M, A political history of the Achaemenid empire [21]
  • De Souza/France, War and peace in ancient and medieval history [22]
  • Cawkwell, The Greek Wars [23]
  • Powell, Athens and Sparta [24]
  • Hornblower, The Greek world, 479-323 B.C. WOTDL Macedon
  • Heckel et al, Alexander the Great, a new history [25]
  • Sacks et al, A Dictionary of the Ancient Greek World [26]
  • Worthington, Alexander the Great [27]
  • Green, Diodorus Siculus - Greek History 480-431 BC [28]
  • Buckley, Aspects of Greek History 750 BC-323 BC Thebes Macedon
  • Buckler, Philip II and the Sacred War [29]
  • Davis, 100 Decisive Battles [30]


Awards and such like

The Reviewers Award The Reviewers Award
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)
The Epic Barnstar
For consistently making high-quality articles on the Greco-Persian Wars. Constantine ✍ 17:29, 26 May 2009 (UTC)
The Original Barnstar
Reading
talk
) 23:20, 22 July 2009 (UTC)
The Half Barnstar
To MinisterForBadTimes, for demonstrating incredible knowledge, patience, and most of all, an abundance of apparently innate
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)
The WikiProject Barnstar
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

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