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by Jeanne Reames
Mon Mar 25, 2024 6:56 am
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: Pothos now inherited by Alexias and on a new server.
Replies: 11
Views: 175

Re: Winding down pothos

Sorry to see it go, but I remember when it started! I was a new grad student at Penn State studying Alexander with Gene Borza. I am now a tenured professor in spitting distance of retiring. I toast this as the first and longest-running site about Alexander the Great on the web. Thanks for taking it ...
by Jeanne Reames
Sun Mar 17, 2024 4:07 am
Forum: Art and Culture
Topic: Ancient Greek music
Replies: 2
Views: 240

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...
by Jeanne Reames
Tue Feb 13, 2024 6:18 am
Forum: Art and Culture
Topic: EXCAVATION IN EGYPTl. LIMNEOS PAPAKOSTA
Replies: 3
Views: 145

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...
by Jeanne Reames
Mon Feb 12, 2024 7:33 pm
Forum: Art and Culture
Topic: EXCAVATION IN EGYPTl. LIMNEOS PAPAKOSTA
Replies: 3
Views: 145

Re: EXCAVATION IN EGYPTl. LIMNEOS PAPAKOSTA

Very interesting! Thanks for this. Have bookmarked.
by Jeanne Reames
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: 322

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...
by Jeanne Reames
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: 839

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.
by Jeanne Reames
Fri Nov 03, 2023 4:47 am
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: Herculaneum papyri
Replies: 3
Views: 2015

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...
by Jeanne Reames
Thu Oct 05, 2023 4:53 pm
Forum: Art and Culture
Topic: The palace of Aegae
Replies: 3
Views: 2933

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.
by Jeanne Reames
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: 3454

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?!)
by Jeanne Reames
Sun May 07, 2023 1:45 am
Forum: Alexander's contemporaries
Topic: Dr. Heckel’s Dissertation on Alexander’s Marshals
Replies: 3
Views: 3704

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...
by Jeanne Reames
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: 3199

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.
by Jeanne Reames
Mon Apr 17, 2023 11:44 pm
Forum: Alexander the Great in the Media
Topic: Alexander the Great Coming to Netflix?
Replies: 2
Views: 4061

Re: Alexander the Great Coming to Netflix?

Yes, it's in the final stages.
by Jeanne Reames
Wed Jan 04, 2023 3:48 am
Forum: Alexander's contemporaries
Topic: Alexander's literate grandmother
Replies: 5
Views: 3888

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...
by Jeanne Reames
Mon Aug 15, 2022 4:13 am
Forum: Art and Culture
Topic: An hour at the Met
Replies: 3
Views: 3254

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...
by Jeanne Reames
Tue Aug 02, 2022 5:05 am
Forum: Alexander's contemporaries
Topic: Forum seems dead, but what the heck...
Replies: 7
Views: 8253

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.