I was planning this timeline for almost a year. I think it's about time to post the first things.
The color system is based on "Gengis Khan Dies Earlier TL"; Red is only OTL, Blue is OTL and TTL, and black is only TTL.
I hope you enjoy. Please, comments would be more than appreciated.
THE GREEK EMPIRE
“There was a time, back in the past, when the world was disunited. It was after the fall of Alexander’s empire. The sucessor realms, the Diadochi, fought against each other for power. But one of the Diadochi leaders, Archon Antigonus I, tried to reunite the empire. Then his army confronted the others in the battle of Ipsus, with the Archon killed, his army crushed and his empire, divided. But was it such a lost? Wasn’t it a path for the real rebuilding? The way to put future Basileus Demetrius I in power?...” (“Empire”, by poet and historian Flavius the Roman)
308-301 b.C.: Fourth Diadochi War. Antigonus Monophtalmus (“the One-Eyed”) of the Antigonids fights to recover the old Macedonian Empire, together with his son, Demetrius Poliorcetes (“the Besieger”), king of the Antigonids. In the midst of it was the siege of Rhodes, in 305 b.C., where new siege weapons, like the Helepolis, were tested.
301 b.C.: Battle of Ipsus. ‘Till here, Antigonus has never lost a battle. In this one, he was killed by a javelin, at the age of 81. His army was annihilated, and then Demetrius, son of Antigonus and the ruler of the Antigonid Empire, retired to Ephesus.
301-295 b.C.: The reversal of fortune stirred up many enemies against Demetrius, with the Athenians refusing him to enter the city. But this would change. During this time, he ravaged the territory of Lysimachus and made peace with Seleucus, giving to marriage his daughter Stratonice.
294-289 b.C.: He established himself in the throne of Macedon, murdering Antipater II, son of Cassander. In this year, Demetrius conquered Athens, and didn’t punish its inhabitants for their former misconduct.
By this time, Pyrrhus, king of Epirus, threatened the western and defenceless portion of Macedon, since Demetrius wasn’t present all time.
POD:
288 b.C.: Pyrrhus, Ptolemy and Lysimachus attacked Demetrius and his army. OTL, he lost and left Macedon. But here he won’t.
After the attack, differently from OTL, the army of Demetrius holds on and they beat the invaders. In the end of that year, Demetrius invades Epirus and makes Pyrrhus his “vassal”, imposing himself. Pyrrhus, fearing the troops of Demetrius, accepted the “vassalisation”, relutanctly.
OTL, the joint army overrun Macedon, and Pyrrhus is put in the throne. Years later, Lysimachus would take him out.
287-282 b.C.: Ptolemy gets angry with the vassalisation of Epirus, and makes and attack against Demetrius and Pyrrhus. Lysimachus supports Ptolemy, and Seleucus stands neutral.
So then, the fifth Diadochi war begins.
Demetrius invades Lysimachus’ possessions in Asia, with varying success. In OTL, he would ask for Seleucus’ help, but here the epirot army would solve the problem, and the asiatic possessions of Lysimachus passes for Demetrius, together with Ptolemy’s anatolian territory.
286 b.C.: OTL, Demetrius advances over Syria and is captured. Cyprus is captured by the macedonian army, and in the same year, the Hellespont is crossed and Thrace begans to fall.
285-284 b.C.: The campaign of Thrace. In one year, the entire region is taken by the army of Macedon, lead directly by Demetrius and his son and successor, Antigonus Gonatas.
In the beginning of 284 b.C., Lysimachus is captured by the macedonian army. He is taken for trial to Demetrius, who let him survive. Lysimachus then become a companion of the king.
In Thrace, Demetrius would meet a woman, Berenice, with whom he would have a bastard son, Brinzakeis. This bastard would be considered for the king as son as Antigonus, and potential successor to the heir, mainly because of the intelligence that Brinzakeis would show.
In this time, Pyrrhus leads an army against Ptolemy, with relactive success. Cyrenaica and the nearby regions are taken.
283 b.C.:OTL, Demetrius dies this year. Pyrrhus enter truly in Egypt. Demetrius and Antigonus go to Egypt help Pyrrhus, and the armies meet at Alexandria.
Ptolemy I Soter dies of natural causes. His son, Ptolemy Philadelphus, moved the court and the library to Tyre soon before the arrival of the macedonians.
The city would fall in the end of the year. Demetrius orders to let the city untouched.
282 b.C.: Ptolemy Philadelphus surrenders completely to Demetrius. With the surrendering, Demetrius makes the Levant a vassal and put Ptolemy in charge of it.
This way, Ptolemy II Philadelphus becomes Ptolemy I of Khanaan. The Kingdom of Khanaan would be a "holder" of the Seleucid Empire.
Ptolemy continues to make the so-known library, the Library of Tyrus.
282-280 b.C.: The armies didn’t want to stop, but the king did.
So then Demetrius put his son Antigonus to lead the troops, and resigned formally to the title of Archon.
Then the new Archon of Macedon, Antigonus Gonatas, conquer Crete and Rhodes, showing his power as ruler.
281 b.C.: Macedon declares war on Sparta. The region is conquered with some difficulty, but the city itself was specifically hard. Demetrius himself command the army, and he orders to rescue the old spartan tradition of military training.
In the near future, the spartans would become the elite warriors again.
280 b.C.: Two months back to Athens, after the conquest of Crete, Antigonus Gonatas orders the crowning of his father as “true ruler of the empire, but not a simple one”, in his words.
In 12 of June of 280 b.C., Former Archon Demetrius becomes Basileus Demetrius I, Greek Emperor.
280-277 b.C.: Governing from Athens as Emperor, Basileus Demetrius recieve news from Thrace. A woman says that she has a son of him. Demetrius makes the woman to come to Athens.The children, Brinzakeis, is admitted to his dinasty. With the time, he would be proven as a good philosopher and maybe a great potential ruler.
277 b.C.:Three years after his crowning, the Basileus dies with a heart attack. Antigonus Gonatas, besides his title of Archon of Macedon, becomes Basileus Antigonus II, honoring his grandfather.
His first acts would be:
1) The year counting would start by the crowning of Demetrius;
2) The Macedonian Greek Empire is the true successor of Alexander's.
Map:
The color system is based on "Gengis Khan Dies Earlier TL"; Red is only OTL, Blue is OTL and TTL, and black is only TTL.
I hope you enjoy. Please, comments would be more than appreciated.
THE GREEK EMPIRE
“There was a time, back in the past, when the world was disunited. It was after the fall of Alexander’s empire. The sucessor realms, the Diadochi, fought against each other for power. But one of the Diadochi leaders, Archon Antigonus I, tried to reunite the empire. Then his army confronted the others in the battle of Ipsus, with the Archon killed, his army crushed and his empire, divided. But was it such a lost? Wasn’t it a path for the real rebuilding? The way to put future Basileus Demetrius I in power?...” (“Empire”, by poet and historian Flavius the Roman)
308-301 b.C.: Fourth Diadochi War. Antigonus Monophtalmus (“the One-Eyed”) of the Antigonids fights to recover the old Macedonian Empire, together with his son, Demetrius Poliorcetes (“the Besieger”), king of the Antigonids. In the midst of it was the siege of Rhodes, in 305 b.C., where new siege weapons, like the Helepolis, were tested.
301 b.C.: Battle of Ipsus. ‘Till here, Antigonus has never lost a battle. In this one, he was killed by a javelin, at the age of 81. His army was annihilated, and then Demetrius, son of Antigonus and the ruler of the Antigonid Empire, retired to Ephesus.
301-295 b.C.: The reversal of fortune stirred up many enemies against Demetrius, with the Athenians refusing him to enter the city. But this would change. During this time, he ravaged the territory of Lysimachus and made peace with Seleucus, giving to marriage his daughter Stratonice.
294-289 b.C.: He established himself in the throne of Macedon, murdering Antipater II, son of Cassander. In this year, Demetrius conquered Athens, and didn’t punish its inhabitants for their former misconduct.
By this time, Pyrrhus, king of Epirus, threatened the western and defenceless portion of Macedon, since Demetrius wasn’t present all time.
POD:
288 b.C.: Pyrrhus, Ptolemy and Lysimachus attacked Demetrius and his army. OTL, he lost and left Macedon. But here he won’t.
After the attack, differently from OTL, the army of Demetrius holds on and they beat the invaders. In the end of that year, Demetrius invades Epirus and makes Pyrrhus his “vassal”, imposing himself. Pyrrhus, fearing the troops of Demetrius, accepted the “vassalisation”, relutanctly.
OTL, the joint army overrun Macedon, and Pyrrhus is put in the throne. Years later, Lysimachus would take him out.
287-282 b.C.: Ptolemy gets angry with the vassalisation of Epirus, and makes and attack against Demetrius and Pyrrhus. Lysimachus supports Ptolemy, and Seleucus stands neutral.
So then, the fifth Diadochi war begins.
Demetrius invades Lysimachus’ possessions in Asia, with varying success. In OTL, he would ask for Seleucus’ help, but here the epirot army would solve the problem, and the asiatic possessions of Lysimachus passes for Demetrius, together with Ptolemy’s anatolian territory.
286 b.C.: OTL, Demetrius advances over Syria and is captured. Cyprus is captured by the macedonian army, and in the same year, the Hellespont is crossed and Thrace begans to fall.
285-284 b.C.: The campaign of Thrace. In one year, the entire region is taken by the army of Macedon, lead directly by Demetrius and his son and successor, Antigonus Gonatas.
In the beginning of 284 b.C., Lysimachus is captured by the macedonian army. He is taken for trial to Demetrius, who let him survive. Lysimachus then become a companion of the king.
In Thrace, Demetrius would meet a woman, Berenice, with whom he would have a bastard son, Brinzakeis. This bastard would be considered for the king as son as Antigonus, and potential successor to the heir, mainly because of the intelligence that Brinzakeis would show.
In this time, Pyrrhus leads an army against Ptolemy, with relactive success. Cyrenaica and the nearby regions are taken.
283 b.C.:OTL, Demetrius dies this year. Pyrrhus enter truly in Egypt. Demetrius and Antigonus go to Egypt help Pyrrhus, and the armies meet at Alexandria.
Ptolemy I Soter dies of natural causes. His son, Ptolemy Philadelphus, moved the court and the library to Tyre soon before the arrival of the macedonians.
The city would fall in the end of the year. Demetrius orders to let the city untouched.
282 b.C.: Ptolemy Philadelphus surrenders completely to Demetrius. With the surrendering, Demetrius makes the Levant a vassal and put Ptolemy in charge of it.
This way, Ptolemy II Philadelphus becomes Ptolemy I of Khanaan. The Kingdom of Khanaan would be a "holder" of the Seleucid Empire.
Ptolemy continues to make the so-known library, the Library of Tyrus.
282-280 b.C.: The armies didn’t want to stop, but the king did.
So then Demetrius put his son Antigonus to lead the troops, and resigned formally to the title of Archon.
Then the new Archon of Macedon, Antigonus Gonatas, conquer Crete and Rhodes, showing his power as ruler.
281 b.C.: Macedon declares war on Sparta. The region is conquered with some difficulty, but the city itself was specifically hard. Demetrius himself command the army, and he orders to rescue the old spartan tradition of military training.
In the near future, the spartans would become the elite warriors again.
280 b.C.: Two months back to Athens, after the conquest of Crete, Antigonus Gonatas orders the crowning of his father as “true ruler of the empire, but not a simple one”, in his words.
In 12 of June of 280 b.C., Former Archon Demetrius becomes Basileus Demetrius I, Greek Emperor.
280-277 b.C.: Governing from Athens as Emperor, Basileus Demetrius recieve news from Thrace. A woman says that she has a son of him. Demetrius makes the woman to come to Athens.The children, Brinzakeis, is admitted to his dinasty. With the time, he would be proven as a good philosopher and maybe a great potential ruler.
277 b.C.:Three years after his crowning, the Basileus dies with a heart attack. Antigonus Gonatas, besides his title of Archon of Macedon, becomes Basileus Antigonus II, honoring his grandfather.
His first acts would be:
1) The year counting would start by the crowning of Demetrius;
2) The Macedonian Greek Empire is the true successor of Alexander's.
Map:
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