Coin of Lysimachus with head of Alexander
c. 305-281 BC · Resource
A silver tetradrachm struck by Lysimachus, one of Alexander's successors, showing the deified Alexander the Great with the ram's horn of Zeus-Ammon. It marks the use of Alexander's image as a tool of legitimacy among the Diadochi.
On these timelines: British Museum, Resources: Combined
Around 290 BCE
- Aristotle (384 BCE)
- Plato's Republic written (375 BCE)
- Han dynasty (202 BCE)
- Han dynasty begins (202 BCE)
- Maurya Empire (322 BCE)
- Reign of Ashoka the Great (268 BCE)
- Qin Shi Huang unifies China (221 BCE)
- Alexander the Great (356 BCE)
- Terracotta Army buried (210 BCE)
- Great Wall first connected under Qin (215 BCE)