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MinisterForBadTimes

Joined 14 April 2008
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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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 edit

To Do List edit

  • 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 edit

  • 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]

  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 edit

  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 First Crusade, I saw your work for an article under review that could have been quick-failed outright. For carrying on regardless by completing a thumbs-up evaluation, and doing a lot of work on the article yourself, despite the fact the article doesn't appear as if it's going to be able to pass, I award you this barnstar. Otumba (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 good faith while working on the 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 edit

Improved to featured article status edit

Improved to A-class status edit

Improved to Good Article status edit

Good Topics created edit

New articles edit

New infoboxes/templates edit

Greatly expanded/re-written edit

Substantially reorganised/re-written edit

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