User:MinisterForBadTimes

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

 * User:MinisterForBadTimes/Ancient Greek checklists
 * User:MinisterForBadTimes/Sources
 * User:MinisterForBadTimes/Drafts - List of Greek City-states
 * User:MinisterForBadTimes/Drafts - Greek tribes
 * User:MinisterForBadTimes/Drafts - Greek foundation myths
 * User:MinisterForBadTimes/Drafts - List of Greek commanders in the Greco-Persian Wars
 * User:MinisterForBadTimes/Drafts - FPI
 * User:MinisterForBadTimes/Drafts
 * User:MinisterForBadTimes/Themistocles
 * User:MinisterForBadTimes/Roman Stuff

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
 * Herodotus
 * Thucydides
 * Xenophon, Hellenica
 * Diodorus
 * Diodorus (books 18 onwards)
 * Cornelius Nepos, Themistocles (& others)
 * Plutarch, Themistocles
 * Plutarch, Lives
 * Anabasis Alexandri
 * Alexander, Plutarch
 * Justin's epitome of Pompeius
 * Photius's epitome, including Arrian's Continuation (codex 92) and Dexippus History(codex 82).
 * The beginning of Pausanias's transcription of Cornelius Nepos (re. Epaminondas):
 * Classics dictionary:


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

Improved to featured article status

 * Epaminondas (helped restore to FA level)

Improved to A-class status

 * Battle of Artemisium
 * Battle of Salamis
 * Battle of Marathon

Improved to Good Article status

 * Ionian Revolt
 * Siege of Naxos (499 BC)
 * Battle of Lade
 * First Persian invasion of Greece
 * Battle of Marathon (restored article to GA level)
 * Siege of Eretria (already a GA, but greatly re-wrote)
 * Second Persian invasion of Greece
 * Battle of Thermopylae (restored article to GA level)
 * Battle of Artemisium
 * Battle of Salamis
 * Battle of Plataea
 * Battle of Mycale
 * Themistocles
 * Wars of the Delian League
 * Battle of the Eurymedon
 * Greco-Persian Wars ???

Good Topics created

 * First Persian invasion of Greece
 * Second Persian invasion of Greece
 * Ionian Revolt

New articles

 * First Persian invasion of Greece
 * Second Persian invasion of Greece
 * Wars of the Delian League
 * Artaphernes (son of Artaphernes)
 * Alexander's Balkan campaign
 * Alexander's Indian campaign

New infoboxes/templates

 * Template:Alexander's Generals
 * Template:Diadochi ("The division of Alexander's empire")
 * Template:Campaignbox Alexander's Balkan campaign
 * Template:Campaignbox Alexander's Persian campaigns
 * Template:Campaignbox Alexander's Indian campaign

Greatly expanded/re-written

 * History of local government in England
 * List of largest church buildings in the world
 * British toponymy
 * Place name origins
 * List of generic forms in British place names
 * Ancient Greek warfare
 * Hellenistic period
 * Hellenistic civilisation
 * Phalanx formation
 * Hoplite
 * Battle of Mycale
 * Battle of Artemisium
 * Siege of Eretria
 * Partition of Babylon
 * Themistocles
 * Ionian Revolt
 * Battle of Lade
 * Siege of Naxos (499 BC)
 * Battle of the Eurymedon

Substantially reorganised/re-written

 * Greco-Persian Wars
 * Ancient Greece
 * Battle of Marathon
 * Battle of Thermopylae
 * Battle of Salamis
 * Battle of Plataea
 * List of Roman Emperors
 * Concise List of Roman Emperors