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- 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: 8
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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: 8
- Views: 100
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: 8
- Views: 100
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: 8
- Views: 100
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: 22
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: 9579
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: 9579
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: 882
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: 882
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: 882
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...
- Sat May 18, 2024 7:27 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Alexander's Last Days: Reconstruction
- Replies: 4
- Views: 68
Re: Alexander's Last Days: Reconstruction
Interesting, thanks. Maybe you could highlight the bits that don't come from the romances and don't deal with the poisoning so that you can read the fever narrative and see how it has been embroidered by the poisoning narrative. Interestingly, if you read this narrative from Arrian (Book VII, XXV): ...
- Thu May 16, 2024 9:30 am
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Herculaneum papyri
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4460
Re: Herculaneum papyri
I don't think this lad got a mention in the Channel 5 programme, though they did mention the word 'purple'. And Jeanne appears in the video!
- Sun May 12, 2024 10:20 pm
- Forum: Alexander Sources
- Topic: Strabo #9 Persians
- Replies: 0
- Views: 78
Strabo #9 Persians
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 Book XV. Chapter I . 69. India. Historians also relate that the Indians worship Jupiter Ombrius (or, the Rainy), the river ...
- Sun May 12, 2024 6:27 pm
- Forum: Art and Culture
- Topic: Bettany Hughes - Bulgaria
- Replies: 10
- Views: 882
Re: Bettany Hughes - Bulgaria
Visually this was very interesting, although a bit misleading in places. For example, Bettany was walking through one of the large rooms off the central courtyard at Aigai, but gave the impression that it was the courtyard itself, which could house 4,000 people. There was also a large drainage chann...
- Sun May 12, 2024 3:40 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Herculaneum papyri
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4460
Re: Herculaneum papyri
There is a programme tonight (Channel 5 9 pm) where Professor Alice Roberts talks to Brent Searles about this work.