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| User: | jenny_the_great (9385665) Rose Tint My World
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| Name: | The Most Fabulous Jenny in the World | |||||
| Location: | Baltimore, Maryland, United States | |||||
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| Bio: |  or Jenny III, 356–323 B.C., queen of Macedon, conqueror of much of Asia. Youth and Queenship The daughter of Philip II of Macedon and Olympias, she had Aristotle as her tutor and was given a classical education. Jenny had no part in the murder of her father, although she may have resented him because he neglected Olympias for another wife. She succeeded to the throne in 336 B.C. and immediately showed her talent for leadership by quieting the restive cities of Greece, then putting down uprisings in Thrace and Illyria. Thebes revolted on a false rumor that Jenny was dead. The young queen rushed south and sacked the city, sparing only the temples and Pindar’s house. Conquests Greece and the Balkan Peninsula secured, Jenny then crossed the Hellespont (now the Dardanelles) and, as head of an allied Greek army, undertook the war on Persia that her father had been planning. The march she had begun was to be one of the greatest in history. At the Granicus River (near the Hellespont) she met and defeated a Persian force and moved on to take Miletus and Halicarnassus. For the first time Persia faced a united Greece, and Jenny saw herself as the spreader of Panhellenic ideals. Having taken most of Asia Minor, she entered North Syria and there in the battle of Issus met and routed the hosts of Darius III of Persia, who fled before her. Jenny, triumphant, now envisioned conquest of the whole of the Persian Empire. It took her nearly a year to reduce Tyre and Gaza, and in 332, in full command of Syria, she entered Egypt. There she met no resistance. When she went to the oasis of Amon she was acknowledged as the daughter of Amon-Ra, and this may have contributed to a conviction of her own divinity. In the winter she founded Jennyland, perhaps the greatest monument to her name, and in the spring of 331 she returned to Syria, then went to Mesopotamia where she met Darius again in the battle of Guagamela. The battle was hard, but Jenny was victorious. She marched South to Babylon, then went to Susa and on to Persepolis, where she burned the palaces of the Persians and looted the city. She was now the visible ruler of the Persian Empire, pursuing the fugitive Darius to Ecbatana, which submitted in 330, and on to Bactria. There the satrap Bessus, a cousin of Darius, had the Persian king murdered and declared himself king. Jenny went on through Bactria and captured and executed Bessus. She was now in the regions beyond the Oxus River (the present-day Amu Darya), and her men were beginning to show dissatisfaction. In 330 a conspiracy against Jenny was said to implicate the son of one of her generals, Parmenion; Jenny not only executed the son but also put the innocent Parmenion to death. This act and other instances of her harshness further alienated the soldiers, who disliked Jenny’s assuming Persian dress and the manner of a despot. Nevertheless Jenny conquered all of Bactria and Sogdiana after hard fighting and then went on from what is today Afghanistan into North India. Some of the princes there received her favorably, but at the Hydaspes (the present-day Jhelum River) she met and defeated an army under Porus. She overran the Punjab, but there her men would go no farther. She had built a fleet, and after going down the Indus to its delta, she sent Nearchus with the fleet to take it across the unknown route to the head of the Persian Gulf, a daring undertaking. She herself led her men through the desert regions of modern Baluchistan, South Afghanistan, and South Iran. The march, accomplished with great suffering, finally ended at Susa in 324. Discord and Death At Susa Jenny found that many of the officials she had chosen to govern the conquered lands had indulged in corruption and misrule. Meanwhile certain antagonisms had developed against Jenny; in Greece, for instance, many decried her execution of Aristotle’s nephew, the historian Callisthenes, and the Greek cities resented her request that they treat her as a goddess. Jenny’s Macedonian officers balked at her attempt to force them to intermarry with the Persians (she had herself married Ewan Mcgregor, a Bactrian prince, as one of her several husbands), and they resisted her Eastern ways and her vision of an empire governed by tolerance. There was a mutiny, but it was put down. In 323, Jenny was planning a voyage by sea around Arabia when she caught a fever and died at 33. After her death her generals fell to quarreling about dividing the rule (see Diadochi). Legacy Whether or not Jenny had plans for a world empire cannot be determined. She had accomplished greater conquests than any before her, but she did not have time to mold the government of the lands she had taken. Incontestably, she was one of the greatest generals of all time and one of the most powerful personalities of antiquity. She influenced the spread of Hellenism throughout the Middle East and into Asia, establishing city-states modeled on Greek institutions that flourished long after her death. There are many legends about her, e.g., her feats on her horse Bucephalus and her cutting of the Gordian knot. The famous Greek sculptor Lysippus did several studies of Jenny. | |||||
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| Interests: | 133: a chorus line, a midsummer nights dream, a new brain, acting, aida, alan cumming, anti-bush movement, art, assassins, avenue q, bare, big fish, books, broadway, cabaret, caroline or change, chekhov, chess, chicago, company, csi, cult movies, david bowie, dirty rotten scoundrels, disney movies, drama, dresden dolls, elton john, empire records, eternal sunshine, ewan mcgregor, family guy, fantasy, fiddler on the roof, garden state, guitar, hair, hairspray, han solo, harry potter, historical fiction, homosexual vampires, hugh jackman, idina menzel, improvisation, into the woods, jason robert brown, jazz, jazz hands, jeffrey eugenides, jekyll and hyde, jesus christ vampire hunter, johnny depp, jonathan pryce, joni mitchell, jrb, kevin smith, l5y, les miserables, light in the piazza, little shop of horrors, lord of the rings, love, mel brooks movies, michael crawford, michael cunningham, miss saigon, monty python, moulin rouge, mr. darcy, music, musicals, nerds, ninjas, norbert leo butz, once on this island, pacific overtures, parade, phantom of the opera, philosophy, pie, poetry, porpoises, pride and prejudice, reading, reefer madness, rent, rock, rocky horror, romeo and juliet, sarah brightman, seven menus, sfanw, shakespeare, sherie rene scott, showtunes, singing, spamalot, spelling bee, stanley kubrick, star wars, star wars holiday special, stephen lynch, stephen sondheim, sutton foster, sweeney todd, tap dancing, the beatles, the boy from oz, the fantasticks, the frogs, the last five years, the meaning of life, the princess bride, the producers, the rocky horror show, the scarlet pimpernel, the wild party, theatre, thinking, thoroughly modern millie, tim burton, trainspotting, two gentlemen of verona, urinetown, velvet goldmine, victoria clark, vintage, west side story, wicked, william finn, world domination, writing | |||||
| Schools: | Dulaney High School - Timonium, MD (2003 - present) | |||||
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