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by delos13
Fri Feb 09, 2024 9:22 pm
Forum: Alexander the Great in the Media
Topic: The Making of a God
Replies: 6
Views: 595

Re: The Making of a God

The show’s Hephaestion was a bit too tame for me. While his portrayal as the BFF, counselor, and diplomat was fairly good, I can’t see the show’s Hephaestion torturing Philotas, crossing swords with Craterus, or fighting with Eumenes. I have the same opinion. Hephaistion appears weak-willed and pra...
by delos13
Sun Jun 11, 2023 2:28 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

I'm working on a monograph about Hephaistion and Krateros at present. Not sure when it'll be finished, much less published. It a many-years later revision of my own doctoral dissertation on Hephaistion, with a lot more background on the court, and, of course, the addition of Krateros. How interesti...
by delos13
Sun Jun 11, 2023 2:23 am
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: Podcast on Alexander's death
Replies: 3
Views: 1969

Re: Podcast on Alexander's death

Thank you for the link to the podcast and reference to the book. After Hephaistion and Alexander, Perdiccas was always my next favorite. He is usually badmouthed (thanks to Ptolemy), so I am curious how the author presents him.
by delos13
Wed Sep 21, 2022 8:38 pm
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: Franz v Schwarz: Alexander in Turkestan
Replies: 4
Views: 6969

Re: Franz v Schwarz: Alexander in Turkestan

Thank you, Chris Taylor, for this very interesting post. I wish I knew German but still, I am going to explore this material. I maybe can give you some help with one of the points of the route. In your table of route points (in Word) there is item #9 that you put in Old German as "Kamenny-Most&...
by delos13
Fri Nov 05, 2021 11:06 pm
Forum: Art and Culture
Topic: Hermann Lucke illustrations
Replies: 0
Views: 4112

Hermann Lucke illustrations

Hi all - I saw these illustrations for the first time and I hope they will be interesting for others too. It has been ages since I posted images here and I couldn't figure out how to do it, so I am just providing the links to Getty images. I had to chuckle at the illustration of Alexander's entrance...
by delos13
Thu Aug 19, 2021 6:48 pm
Forum: Art and Culture
Topic: Update to the online database of the British museum
Replies: 1
Views: 3118

Update to the online database of the British museum

The British Museum just updated its online database with 1.9 million images from the institution’s collection now available to download for free. There are a lot of interesting things about Alexander. Here is the link to search https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection. Inputting "Alexander the ...
by delos13
Sat Oct 10, 2020 4:13 pm
Forum: Book reviews
Topic: Free resource: books about ATG
Replies: 2
Views: 9129

Re: Free resource: books about ATG

That was a general link for the webpage where you can search for many different topics. For ATG books you have to type his name in the search bar. Here is specific link to Alexander https://www.pdfdrive.com/alexander-the-great-books.html
by delos13
Wed Oct 07, 2020 1:52 am
Forum: Alexander's contemporaries
Topic: Teachers of Alexander
Replies: 0
Views: 10579

Teachers of Alexander

Yesterday, October 5, was World Teachers' Day - to all teachers here - thank you very much for the important job you are doing. I wish you all to have attentive and inquisitive students! Alexander was definitely an inquisitive student of Aristotle but whether he was attentive - it's a question mark....
by delos13
Fri Oct 02, 2020 8:38 pm
Forum: Book reviews
Topic: Free resource: books about ATG
Replies: 2
Views: 9129

Free resource: books about ATG

Hi all: I found this wonderful resource for the free books in pdf format https://www.pdfdrive.com/ If you type "Alexander the Great" in the search bar on top, there are several pages of books available. Of course, don't limit yourselves to Alexander only, there are thousands of books on ma...
by delos13
Tue Apr 28, 2020 7:44 pm
Forum: 'Off-topic' forum
Topic: Online lecture on discoveries on Keros island
Replies: 0
Views: 8994

Online lecture on discoveries on Keros island

If anyone is interested in this online lecture on May 7, 2020 Time: 18:00 (London), 19:00 (Paris), 19:00 (Vienna), 20:00 (Athens), 20:00 (Nicosia), 13:00 (New York) Link: https://eu.bbcollab.com/collab/ui/session/guest/8a81f965eadc4aa09135dd31cf43dbdc - this is link to the online lecture https://www...
by delos13
Fri Mar 20, 2020 12:44 am
Forum: Alexander the Great in the Media
Topic: Silly picture
Replies: 1
Views: 10896

Re: Silly picture

and of course it is Hephaistion who is printing labels and putting them of stuff. :)
by delos13
Sun Feb 16, 2020 6:27 pm
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: Vergina Lion Hunt painting
Replies: 4
Views: 4464

Re: Vergina Lion Hunt painting

Thank you, Alexias and Pauline, for these interesting links, photos and your own thoughts on the subject. Though I don't have much to add but I want to express my appreciation of the subject and your efforts to keep this community alive.
by delos13
Sat Jan 18, 2020 8:23 pm
Forum: Book reviews
Topic: "Trampling in the Land of Woe"
Replies: 8
Views: 14498

Re: "Trampling in the Land of Woe"

There are cheaper ones on Abebooks.co.uk. Anyone know what the other two volumes are called or about? Yes, the second book is called "Sparks from a Cruel Grindstone" and it is about Boudica, the third one was not published yet, I think. The second and third books are not about Hephaistion...
by delos13
Sat Jan 18, 2020 7:30 pm
Forum: Book reviews
Topic: "Trampling in the Land of Woe"
Replies: 8
Views: 14498

Re: "Trampling in the Land of Woe"

This is interesting. Thanks. I looked it up, but it costs somewhere around $150 used. I may collect ATG fiction, but that's too rich for my blood. LOL! Still, the author seems to have a page on Goodreads. Their may be another option to get a hold of the novel. $150 USD used? I bought a new book on ...
by delos13
Sat Jan 04, 2020 1:34 am
Forum: Book reviews
Topic: "Trampling in the Land of Woe"
Replies: 8
Views: 14498

"Trampling in the Land of Woe"

Happy New Year everyone! Absolutely by chance I came across this book "Trampling in the Land of Woe" by William Galaini (published in 2015). It is about Hephaistion searching for Alexander in Hell. Below is the brief description from the author's website (readers' reviews can be easily fou...