Greek explorers and settlers
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Eumenes of Cardia (a Greek from the Thracian Chersonese) rose under Philip II and then Alexander the Great, not as a battlefield noble but as an educated administrator. As Alexander’s chief secretary, he handled correspondence, records, and logistics—the unglamorous machinery that keeps an army alive. When Alexander died in 323 BCE, that proximity to power turned dangerous: the empire splintered, and the generals (the Diadochi) began carving it up. Most commanders sneered at Eumenes as an outsid
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Around 600 BC, Greek observers saw towering hounds fighting with Celtic warbands — ancestors of the Irish wolfhound, called “cú” in early Irish, found in names like Cú Chulainn. To the ancient Irish these dogs were status symbols, diplomatic gifts, and weapons. Law tracts fined harming a noble’s hound more than a farmer’s cow. Poets called them “gentle when stroked, fierce when provoked,” fitting for animals that might sleep by the hearth one night and face enemies the next. By the late Roman Em
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