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- Sun Apr 28, 2024 7:02 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Netflix’s Alexander..
- Replies: 15
- Views: 3090
Re: Netflix’s Alexander..
I felt for you, Jeanne, seeing you named as a historical adviser, and then seeing the complete mess they made of it! :-( Thanks, Marcus. I thought of my job as keeping out the more egregious errors. E.g., what *didn't* get in, because I nixed it. LOL But as advisor, you are simply that: advisor. Th...
- Sun Apr 28, 2024 6:57 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Netflix’s Alexander..
- Replies: 15
- Views: 3090
Re: Netflix’s Alexander..
But if lot of liberties were taken because of the lack of money, why Netflix added a lot of nonsense to Alexander's history, such as the old Egyptian priestess, the Persians playing polo, Alexander begging the Persian governor of Egypt on his knees, and so on? Is it necessary to tell so many lies o...
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 12:04 am
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Netflix’s Alexander..
- Replies: 15
- Views: 3090
Re: Netflix’s Alexander..
There were a LOT of liberties taken, many all about cost. For example, the (daughter) Barsine is too old because it's apparently super-expensive to bring minors onto a set. And there aren't nearly enough people, even guards for Alexander, due to lack of money. They couldn't afford a lot that was sug...
- Wed Apr 03, 2024 8:07 am
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: location of Peuce
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4871
Re: location of Peuce
Try this site. It's enormously comprehensive. Very useful. Takes a bit of poking to figure it out, but I used it extensively for my digital epigraphy project.
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- Mon Mar 25, 2024 6:56 am
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Pothos now inherited by Alexias and on a new server.
- Replies: 18
- Views: 6860
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 ...
- Sun Mar 17, 2024 4:07 am
- Forum: Art and Culture
- Topic: Ancient Greek music
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2405
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: 2154
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: 2154
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: 2407
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: 2992
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: 5
- Views: 4166
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: 4976
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: 5520
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: 5858
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: 3375
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.