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But in the upper link you refer to it is clearly said that R.Bascapè (1580-99) a student of Michelangelo, "restored the horse's head, legs, and tail, as well as lion's rear parts".
So the nails belong to the Renaissance restoration!

Really amazing and frightful! I knew very well of the 'apotympanismos', but it's entirely another thing to see actual bodies of men so punished. Thanks for reminding us how harsh may be 'dear old times'!

I found this quote on Plutarch,On the Fortune or the Virtue of Alexander, 345 B: "He (Alexander) cried aloud to his Companions (when wounded by the Mallians): 'Let no one be faint-hearted even for my sake! For it will not be believed that I do not fear death, if you fear death for me!'." B...

Yesterday I saw a Japanese movie on Genghis Khan (2007, directed by Shin'ichiro Sawai). After seeing the horses on the movie, anyone, I think, would be able to imagine the real Hellenistic horses: the Mongolian ones IMHO are very similar, in shape and size, to their Hellenic (i.e. old Asian) ancesto...

Thank you for posting this item. I think the lecture at BM was the same or, at least, based on a paper of the same scholar I found and downloaded here in pothos.org (Alexander the coss-dresser? by marcus, Thu.Sep 20, 2012, 5.03 pm.; article by Antony Spawforth,"The Pamphleteer Ephippus, King Al...

I'm glad that cenotaph was a conjecture of mine too!

This huge monument is really strange: perhaps it's more similar to the tumulus of Marathon (where the Athenians were buried). But if no bones were found till now, it may be a cenotaph. So it's possible that the so-called 'Prince's Tomb' at Vergina is the likely tomb of Alexander IV, and this monumen...

'Dionysus was the "guiding star" for Alexander, who in turn brought civilization, founded cities and spread Greek language and art from Mediterranean to Central Asia and India'(Sydney Morning Herald). I am sure that with "brought civilization" the author implied "Greek"...

I visited the site of this guy, and, well! If you wish, believe in what he told! I know two more reports of this kind, in which Alexander is involved, the first published by André Malraux (Hotes de passage, Gallimard 1975, pp.85 ss.), the second in a Pendragon book (www.pendragon.it, 2006). As alway...

But now Green's biography of Alexander is (at most) out of fashion, yet it is always quoted!

Thank you very much, Alexias, you are right! I only wondered, in my poor English, why Peter Green's book is so widely known.
Hiphys

Hi Chris!
Thank you very much! You are perfectly right on Peter Green and his biography of Alexander! I never understood why it is currently so succesful, especially among common people. God bless you for your so outright criticism of this awful book!
Hiphys

I found for this quote (Arrian 1. 14, 4) another translation: "Where they observed Alexander himself - he was unmistakable, from the splendour of his equipement and the enthusiasm of the men in attendance round him - aiming at their left, they massed their cavalry squadrons on the bank there&qu...

I apololgize for being unable to explain myself. There are two kinds of questions in this inscription. 1) Is it Ionic or Attic or neither? 2) Which century does the inscription belong to: V or IV B.C.? 1) The first question is related very strictly to the second: if the inscription is Ionic, the alp...

I never wrote that Eukleides' reform intoduced newly invented letters, but rather that Athens adopted Ionic alphabet: here omega and H as long \e\ were characteristic features. As for masculine singular genetive in Ionic prose inscriptions is never -oio, but -o (long): the former feature occurs only...