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by Alexias
Tue Mar 26, 2024 9:19 pm
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: Winding down pothos/Keeping Pothos alive!
Replies: 10
Views: 168

Re: Winding down pothos/Keeping Pothos alive!

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by Alexias
Tue Mar 26, 2024 3:04 pm
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: Winding down pothos/Keeping Pothos alive!
Replies: 10
Views: 168

Re: Winding down pothos/Keeping Pothos alive!

Hi all, Thank you for your patience while we deal with this issue on the website. The initial problem was that spam bots were causing too many hits on the site and exceeding Thomas's allowed bandwidth usage. In order to preserve the site in its current state, and to ensure that it continues to be av...
by Alexias
Mon Mar 25, 2024 7:46 am
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: Winding down pothos/Keeping Pothos alive!
Replies: 10
Views: 168

Re: Winding down pothos

Thomas and I are discussing the process of transferring the site to me. I will freeze the boards so you won't be able to post anything until it is completed.

Many thanks to Thomas for hosting the site for so long.
by Alexias
Sun Mar 24, 2024 10:14 pm
Forum: Art and Culture
Topic: Image of Alexander in an aegis
Replies: 0
Views: 33

Image of Alexander in an aegis

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This is a test to see if I can post a photo as there may be an issue. I don't remember where I got this photo from.
by Alexias
Tue Mar 19, 2024 8:37 pm
Forum: Alexander Sources
Topic: Strabo - Intro
Replies: 0
Views: 111

Strabo - Intro

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 NOTICE. The present translation of Strabo, the great Geographer of Antiquity, is the first which has been laid before the E...
by Alexias
Tue Mar 19, 2024 7:46 pm
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: Boeotian helmet
Replies: 1
Views: 98

Boeotian helmet

As a follow up to System1988's Chaeronea posts, a helmet worn by one of Alexander's cavalrymen. I can't remember if I've posted this before but it is from Oxford's Ashmolean museum.

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Wonder if he survived for Gaugamela, or whether he drowned?
by Alexias
Mon Mar 18, 2024 10:19 pm
Forum: Alexander Sources
Topic: Athenaeus - Deipnosophists Book XV
Replies: 0
Views: 22

Athenaeus - Deipnosophists Book XV

Athenaeus - Deipnosophists Book XV Book XV. 683 b First, roses which Midas of Odonia, when he left his realm in Asia, grew in the Emathian* glebes, roses ever luxuriant with sixty petals all round. * Emathia, poetic name of Macedonia. Book XV 684 e A flower called ambrosia is recorded by Carystius ...
by Alexias
Mon Mar 18, 2024 10:18 pm
Forum: Alexander Sources
Topic: Athenaeus - Deipnosophists Book XIV
Replies: 0
Views: 24

Athenaeus - Deipnosophists Book XIV

Athenaeus - Deipnosophists Book XIV Book XIV. 614 d - 615 a Hippolochus of Macedon, again, in his Letter to Lynceus mentions as jesters Mandrogenes and Straton of Athens. For at Athens there was an abundance of these clever gentry. At any rate, in the temple of Heracles, in the deme Diomeia, they w...
by Alexias
Sun Mar 17, 2024 10:26 pm
Forum: Alexander Sources
Topic: Athenaeus - Deipnosophists Book XIIIb
Replies: 0
Views: 35

Athenaeus - Deipnosophists Book XIIIb

Athenaeus - Deipnosophists Book XIIIb Book XIII. 594 d – 596 b Harpalus, the Macedonian who plundered large sums from Alexander’s funds and then sought refuge in Athens, fell in love with Pythionice and squandered a great deal on her, though she was a courtesan; and when she died he erected a monum...
by Alexias
Sun Mar 17, 2024 10:23 pm
Forum: Alexander Sources
Topic: Athenaeus - Deipnosophists Book XIIIa
Replies: 0
Views: 32

Athenaeus - Deipnosophists Book XIIIa

Athenaeus - Deipnosophists Book XIIIa Book XIII 555 a The comic poet Antiphanes, friend Timocrates, was once reading one of his plays to King Alexander, who, however, made it plain that he did not altogether like it. “No wonder, sire,” the poet said; “for the man who likes this play of mine must ha...
by Alexias
Sun Mar 17, 2024 4:01 pm
Forum: Book reviews
Topic: Alexander the Great: A New History
Replies: 1
Views: 179

Alexander the Great: A New History

Alexander the Great: A New History edited by Waldemar Heckel and Lawrence A. Tritle This book was originally intended as a quasi-response to Oliver Stone's 2004 film 'Alexander' but it wasn't published until 2009. It is a broad introduction to the study of Alexander, but it is not a book for beginne...
by Alexias
Sun Mar 17, 2024 3:27 pm
Forum: Alexander Sources
Topic: Athenaeus - Deipnosophists Book XII
Replies: 0
Views: 33

Athenaeus - Deipnosophists Book XII

Athenaeus - Deipnosophists Book XII Book XII. 513 e – 515 a (On the Persians.) The first men in history to become notorious for luxurious living were the Persians, whose kings wintered in Susa and summered in Ecbatana. (Now Susa was so called, according to Aristobulus and Chares, because of the bea...
by Alexias
Sun Mar 17, 2024 3:23 pm
Forum: Alexander Sources
Topic: Athenaeus - Deipnosophists Book XI
Replies: 0
Views: 30

Athenaeus - Deipnosophists Book XI

Athenaeus - Deipnosophists Book XI Note: Book XI starts with sections 459 through 466, jumps to sections 781 through 784, and then returns to section 466. Book XI. 781 f Parmenion, summing up the booty taken from the Persians, in his Letters to Alexander, says: “Gold cups, weight seventy-three Baby...
by Alexias
Sun Mar 17, 2024 2:43 pm
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: Cheronea, a question
Replies: 7
Views: 142

Re: Cheronea, a question

I've merged the posts into two separate topics, basically the Sacred Band and the Macedonian pyre.
by Alexias
Sun Mar 17, 2024 9:38 am
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: Cheronea, a question
Replies: 7
Views: 142

Re: Cheronea, a question

I have made a start on merging some of the posts together. I will get back to it in a bit. In the meantime, instead of starting a 'new topic'for each photo, you could 'post reply' to one of your topics to group the photos together,