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- Tue May 28, 2024 9:21 am
- Forum: Comments, help, suggestions etc
- Topic: New website - opinion
- Replies: 2
- Views: 38
Re: New website - opinion
Thanks for your input!
- Sun May 26, 2024 9:21 pm
- Forum: Alexander Sources
- Topic: Plutarch: On the Fortune or the Virtue of Alexander 1
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- Views: 24
Plutarch: On the Fortune or the Virtue of Alexander 1
Plutarch: On the Fortune or the Virtue of Alexander This is Fortune's discourse, who declares that Alexander is her own characteristic handiwork, and hers alone. But some rejoinder must be made on behalf of philosophy, or rather on Alexander's behalf, who would be vexed and indignant if he should b...
- Sun May 26, 2024 7:46 pm
- Forum: Comments, help, suggestions etc
- Topic: New website - opinion
- Replies: 2
- Views: 38
New website - opinion
I have been working on a new front page for the website. Please could you take a look and give me your opinion and any comments or suggestions. https://pothos.org/contentnew/index.html . It doesn't look too bad on my phone! Do you think it is too flashy? Do you think it will attract new members? I h...
- Thu May 23, 2024 8:11 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Alexander's Last Days: Chronological Source Rearrangement (without the poison narrative and the romances)
- Replies: 28
- Views: 464
Re: Alexander's Last Days: Chronological Source Rearrangement (without the poison narrative and the romances)
Going off at a tangent, why did Alexander summon the officers to assemble in the hall/courtyard? Did he want them there to issue instructions about the Arabia campaign, maybe that he would catch them up when he was recovered, or that it was postponed? Or did he realise he was dying and want them the...
- Thu May 23, 2024 7:47 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Alexander's Last Days: Chronological Source Rearrangement (without the poison narrative and the romances)
- Replies: 28
- Views: 464
Re: Alexander's Last Days: Chronological Source Rearrangement (without the poison narrative and the romances)
Having checked this, Craterus seems to have left for Greece in June 324 BC (Hephaestion dying in the October), but 12 months later was no further than Cilicia. Heckel says his ill-health and trouble in Cilicia had held him up, but Antipater therefore must have known for 12 months that Alexander had ...
- Thu May 23, 2024 8:49 am
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Alexander's Last Days: Chronological Source Rearrangement (without the poison narrative and the romances)
- Replies: 28
- Views: 464
Re: Alexander's Last Days: Chronological Source Rearrangement (without the poison narrative and the romances)
Sorry, not convinced. As Plutarch said, the poisoning theory didn't surface until about 5 years after Alexander's death in a pamphlet designed to denigrate Cassander in the wars of the successors. I wrote about it here viewtopic.php?p=47178&hilit=holkias#p47178.
- Wed May 22, 2024 11:07 am
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Alexander's Last Days: Chronological Source Rearrangement (without the poison narrative and the romances)
- Replies: 28
- Views: 464
Re: Alexander's Last Days: Chronological Source Rearrangement (without the poison narrative and the romances)
Hi, yes I'd agree that a cold/chill wouldn't kill Alexander, but they could have developed into pneumonia, which could well have killed him. But, of course, the fever could also have come from another infection. I know you like the arsenic poisoning, but I am afraid I am not convinced. It just doesn...
- Tue May 21, 2024 1:48 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Alexander's Last Days: Chronological Source Rearrangement (without the poison narrative and the romances)
- Replies: 28
- Views: 464
Re: Alexander's Last Days: Chronological Source Rearrangement (without the poison narrative and the romances)
What happens when a fever doesn't break? ...Fat cells start burning energy and our muscles rapidly contract, causing shivering – both of which warm us up. As a result, the body's temperature starts to rise. If it rises too far, that can be fatal. Our cells begin to die, releasing proteins into the ...
- Tue May 21, 2024 12:24 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Alexander's Last Days: Chronological Source Rearrangement (without the poison narrative and the romances)
- Replies: 28
- Views: 464
Re: Alexander's Last Days: Chronological Source Rearrangement (without the poison narrative and the romances)
Thanks for this. Some thoughts: Day 0: The sources all seem to agree that, perhaps against his better judgement (he may have already been feeling ill), Alexander was persuaded to go to Medius’s late night party. At this party, he seems to have been taken ill. By this action, Alexander may himself ha...
- Tue May 21, 2024 9:23 am
- Forum: Alexander Sources
- Topic: Strabo #10 Alexandria
- Replies: 0
- Views: 60
Strabo #10 Alexandria
The Geography of Strabo Literally translated with notes. The first six books by H. C. Hamilton, Esq.The remainder by W. Falconer, M.A. Published by Henry G. Bohn, London, 1856 Excerpt from Book XVI. Chapter I. 3. Assyria. In Aturia is situated Gaugamela, a village where Darius was defeated and lost...
- Mon May 20, 2024 1:51 pm
- Forum: Alexander's contemporaries
- Topic: Itanes - Roxane's brother
- Replies: 5
- Views: 9796
Re: Itanes - Roxane's brother
No, probably not, but just a bit of wishful thinking!But I don't think Hephaestion married really a sister of Roxane, because no hints of any cousins is made by Alexander before the marriage between the two sisters Barsine/Stateira and Drypetis respectively to himself and his friend.
- Sun May 19, 2024 7:41 pm
- Forum: Alexander's contemporaries
- Topic: Itanes - Roxane's brother
- Replies: 5
- Views: 9796
Re: Itanes - Roxane's brother
This has been bugging me for a while as I couldn't remember where I had seen before that some of Alexander's friends married other Bactrian girls when Alexander married Roxane. Finally found it: 3(d) Metz Epitome 29–31 Alexander took his cup, made a prayer to the gods and then proceeded to declare t...
- Sun May 19, 2024 3:00 pm
- Forum: Art and Culture
- Topic: Bettany Hughes - Bulgaria
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1060
Re: Bettany Hughes - Bulgaria
Marcus: I think we should give Bettany Hughes a bit of a break - she's making popular history programmes, and for those who aren't well versed in ancient history it's easier to designate the wife of a king as a queen, even though *we* know that there were no such things as 'queens' in Macedonia. I ...
- Sat May 18, 2024 7:58 pm
- Forum: Art and Culture
- Topic: Bettany Hughes - Bulgaria
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1060
Re: Bettany Hughes - Bulgaria
Recent archaeology out of northern Greece, as well as ancient Thrace and Illyria is demonstrating that the Greek take on the "barbarism" of these people well back into the Late Iron Age (Archaic Era) is more political/philosophic fiction than reality, and later Roman Second Sophistic take...
- Sat May 18, 2024 7:46 pm
- Forum: Art and Culture
- Topic: Bettany Hughes - Bulgaria
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1060
Re: Bettany Hughes - Bulgaria
In other words, there is no evidence that Meda threw herself on Philip's funeral pyre, merely a theory based on very shaky peripheral evidence and a number of Occam-razor-like assumptions. :-) Yes, I was about to post exactly the same - bending the evidence to fit the theory that it was Philip II's...