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- Sun Mar 17, 2024 4:07 am
- Forum: Art and Culture
- Topic: Ancient Greek music
- Replies: 2
- Views: 108
Re: Ancient Greek music
While we're on the topic of ancient Greek music, let me plug my friend Bettina's work. Multiple lyres on ancient models, aulos, and she has a beautiful voice, too. :-) She's also the Bettina Joy DeGuzman "Bettina Joy de Guzman is a multi-instrumentalist and Classicist, composing with replica an...
- Tue Feb 13, 2024 6:18 am
- Forum: Art and Culture
- Topic: EXCAVATION IN EGYPTl. LIMNEOS PAPAKOSTA
- Replies: 3
- Views: 133
Re: EXCAVATION IN EGYPTl. LIMNEOS PAPAKOSTA
Again, many thanks. And yes, when I was doing the cataloguing of epigraphical occurrences of all Hephais-/Haphe(i)s-based names, QUITE a number appeared on or related to pottery, which is not a great surprise, considering. I'd assume maker until we get more information. Same as the name in the Kasta...
- Mon Feb 12, 2024 7:33 pm
- Forum: Art and Culture
- Topic: EXCAVATION IN EGYPTl. LIMNEOS PAPAKOSTA
- Replies: 3
- Views: 133
Re: EXCAVATION IN EGYPTl. LIMNEOS PAPAKOSTA
Very interesting! Thanks for this. Have bookmarked.
- Thu Feb 08, 2024 9:33 am
- Forum: Alexander the Great in the Media
- Topic: Historical Consultant on Netflix’s ‘Alexander: The Making of a God’
- Replies: 2
- Views: 298
Re: Historical Consultant on Netflix’s ‘Alexander: The Making of a God’
The pool scene owes nothing to me. I didn't write the scripts. That was in the script before I ever saw it. Historical consultants have very specific jobs, and script-writing isn't included. :wink: But thanks. There are obviously various errors. And to be clear, I was never shown any design boards f...
- Fri Jan 26, 2024 7:55 am
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: An Unconventional Take on the Vergina Tomb: Is it Alexander’s?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 806
Re: An Unconventional Take on the Vergina Tomb: Is it Alexander’s?
Jonathan Hall also has made an argument that Tomb II was intended to be Alexander's, but was never finished, then repurposed by Kassandros when he recovered the remains of Arrhidaios and Eurydike. If I remember right, it's in his book Artifact and Artifice. It's not an illogical argument.
- Fri Nov 03, 2023 4:47 am
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Herculaneum papyri
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1995
Re: Herculaneum papyri
Ironically, one of the guys working on the Herculaneum papyri is from the Univ of Nebraska, Lincoln, just to my south. Local news station interviewed me about it. Anyway, it appears that most of the scrolls are philosophical in nature, specifically Epicurean. Will be a huge boon to that field. There...
- Thu Oct 05, 2023 4:53 pm
- Forum: Art and Culture
- Topic: The palace of Aegae
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2919
Re: The palace of Aegae
I'll be happy when this is open again. I've walked it in the past (before recent work), but when there in 2018, it was still closed.
- Thu Oct 05, 2023 4:51 pm
- Forum: Alexander the Great in the Media
- Topic: The History Channel’s ‘Alexander the Great’ in ‘Ancient Empires’
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3432
Re: The History Channel’s ‘Alexander the Great’ in ‘Ancient Empires’
Thank you.
And yes, alas, I believe it's restricted to North America, at least for now, on their website.
Netflix's will NOT have a dark Alexander (who's taller than Hephaistion?!)
And yes, alas, I believe it's restricted to North America, at least for now, on their website.
Netflix's will NOT have a dark Alexander (who's taller than Hephaistion?!)
- Sun May 07, 2023 1:45 am
- Forum: Alexander's contemporaries
- Topic: Dr. Heckel’s Dissertation on Alexander’s Marshals
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3692
Re: Dr. Heckel’s Dissertation on Alexander’s Marshals
Heckel's dissertation has been replaced by his first The Marshal's of Alexander's Empire , and the later second edition Alexander's Marshals . The first came out before my or Sabine's work, but the second still holds to his original opinion on Hephaistion. I'm working on a monograph about Hephaistio...
- Sun May 07, 2023 1:38 am
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Detailed modern narrative analysis of Alexander's Asian campaign (334-325) and his historians.
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3188
Re: Detailed modern narrative analysis of Alexander's Asian campaign (334-325) and his historians.
Brian Bosworth's Alexander in the East is another obvious one. Not a pretty picture of the conqueror, but an important contribution.
- Mon Apr 17, 2023 11:44 pm
- Forum: Alexander the Great in the Media
- Topic: Alexander the Great Coming to Netflix?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4039
Re: Alexander the Great Coming to Netflix?
Yes, it's in the final stages.
- Wed Jan 04, 2023 3:48 am
- Forum: Alexander's contemporaries
- Topic: Alexander's literate grandmother
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3869
Re: Alexander's literate grandmother
Beth Carney mentions it in her book Eurydice and the Birth of Macedonian Power , chapter 5, "Eurydice's Public Image during Her Lifetime." I don't have the book at home with me (it's in my office), but I recall her talking about it, so I looked it up online. It's a good discussion of her d...
- Mon Aug 15, 2022 4:13 am
- Forum: Art and Culture
- Topic: An hour at the Met
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3247
Re: An hour at the Met
Much of the Greek section is pottery, but as you enter, a big head will greet you. It's *probably* an Alexander. Then if you walk down the hall to the end, and start there, you'll find Hellenistic stuff (including another bronze Alexander) and some Ptolemaic material, Seleucid, the famous "heta...
- Tue Aug 02, 2022 5:05 am
- Forum: Alexander's contemporaries
- Topic: Forum seems dead, but what the heck...
- Replies: 7
- Views: 8234
Re: Forum seems dead, but what the heck...
Daniel Ogden has a very useful book on Seleukos, called The Legend of Seleucus: Kingship, Narrative, and Mythmaking in the Ancient World. Daniel is an impeccable scholar, and the book examines the creation of his own legend both during his lifetime, and by his descendants later.
- Wed May 25, 2022 5:44 am
- Forum: Alexander's contemporaries
- Topic: The Face of Hephaestion: An Artistic Reconstruction
- Replies: 5
- Views: 6676
Re: The Face of Hephaestion: An Artistic Reconstruction
There is a discussion of Hephaistion's likeness at the back of Andrew Stewart's Faces of Power , regarding the statues and which ones are likely to be authentic. It's been a while since I read it, but he's the leading expert art historian on ATG's image, imo, and familiar with the provenances, etc. ...