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Does anyone know a lot about the Alexander Sarcophagus. I came across this photo; I think it's of a plaque in the Istanbul Archaeological Museum, although I don't remember it being there. It purports to identify the figures on the sarcophagus. I don't know anything about the scholarship here. I pres...

Wow. I totally disagree, both historically and as drama. Sententious, slow-witted, cliche, boring, modernizing. Again, not on-topic, but I'm amazed we'd differ so much!

But did he wax?

I just saw this delightful passage for the first time, and thought I'd share. It also bears on Roxane and love, a topic we've been batting about. It's from Lucian's "Hermotimus or the Rival Philosophies" ( within http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext04/lcns210.txt )."In quite recent tim...

That's a lot to respond to, and hard too as your arguments are quite convincing. My apologies for not doing it tonight. I just spent hours do a comprehensive editorial shakeup of the WCD.

Noticed in the Loeb edition, dammit. ( http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/R ... tml#note36 )

Good sleuth!I hope no one's ever noticed that. (I'm guessing someone has, alas.) In either case, that was spot on.In my opinion, the world needs a commentary on all these unsourced bitsGÇöPolyaenus, Frontinus, Sayings of Kings and Commanders, etc. Any desire to add that bit of Sleuthing to the WCD t...

Continuing http://www.pothos.org/forum/showmessage.asp?messageID=21512 , an interesting thread is falling off. (Indeed, this message will give it the final push.) The last message included some handy bibliography on attitudes toward a child's death by Amyntoros ( http://www.pothos.org/forum/showmess...

I just started a WCD entry on Termessus:http://www.ancientlibrary.com/wcd/TermessusIn it I undermine the guidebook-notion that Termessus was the "one city Alexander couldn't take." I point to SylliumGÇöback a page in ArrianGÇöwhich Alexander was "unable" to take. And I point out ...

No problem. I think you miscaught a tone of mine--web's like that--and then we were off and running.

Yes, anyone who's played with papyri knew this was being blown way out of proportion. A "20% increase" would be great indeed. Yes, papyri have given us some complete worksGÇöAthPol, Menander, Herondas, etc. But these were not pieced together from scraps; they came were big, well-preserved ...

I feel the issue can never be solved, but that I'd put a lot of weight into how miscariages, still-borns and the death of newborns were noticed by other historians and by the culture generally. Here we leave fields I can pretend to know: what I know about Greek attitudes to newborn death can be fit ...

Do you have some sort of emotional problem?

I've never seen "La vie quotidienne." Thanks for the tip!

Thanks for that long response. It was very interesting to me. My apologies for being so ignorant about it.For starters, thank you for disabusing me of the notion that Dutch was a minority language in Belgium. I thought it was something like 60/40 French, but I gather it's 60/40 Dutch. This ignorance...