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- Mon Aug 15, 2022 4:13 am
- Forum: Art and Culture
- Topic: An hour at the Met
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4124
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...
- Tue Aug 02, 2022 5:05 am
- Forum: Alexander's contemporaries
- Topic: Forum seems dead, but what the heck...
- Replies: 7
- Views: 8928
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.
- Wed May 25, 2022 5:44 am
- Forum: Alexander's contemporaries
- Topic: The Face of Hephaestion: An Artistic Reconstruction
- Replies: 5
- Views: 8242
Re: The Face of Hephaestion: An Artistic Reconstruction
There is a discussion of Hephaistion's likeness at the back of Andrew Stewart's Faces of Power , regarding the statues and which ones are likely to be authentic. It's been a while since I read it, but he's the leading expert art historian on ATG's image, imo, and familiar with the provenances, etc. ...
- Sat Apr 09, 2022 6:23 am
- Forum: Alexander's contemporaries
- Topic: The Face of Hephaestion: An Artistic Reconstruction
- Replies: 5
- Views: 8242
Re: The Face of Hephaestion: An Artistic Reconstruction
These reconstructions are kinda cool. Unfortunately, in this case, they picked a very dubious statue. It's the one in the Getty, which 1) is quite possibly a forgery, and 2) isn't named. It might be Hephaistion, or it might just be "some guy" (e.g., a heroized young man). I wish we had mor...
- Mon Jan 10, 2022 4:30 am
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: New members: Ask a question
- Replies: 15
- Views: 14742
Re: New members: Ask a question
Sweetmemory, the first 2 years are, alas, too often overlooked in scholarship, the razing of Thebes aside. Aside from the primary sources, already listed, there are a couple articles about those years as well. A rather interesting take comes from Tim Howe, "Cleopatra-Eurydike, Olympias, and a '...
- Thu Dec 30, 2021 3:10 am
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Schooling of Macedonian boys at Pella
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4609
Re: Schooling of Macedonian boys at Pella
If you can lay hands on it, let me recommend two articles from Beth Carney, out of her 2015 King and Court in Ancient Macedonia: Rivalry, Treason, and Conspiracy . The book is a collection of her various articles pertaining to the Macedonian court (as the title suggests). Not only are they neatened ...
- Sat Dec 12, 2020 3:11 am
- Forum: Alexander's contemporaries
- Topic: Three books on the Achaemenids
- Replies: 3
- Views: 18332
Re: Three books on the Achaemenids
Ah, okay. There are days I agree with her. LOL. I realized just recently that I'm about 5 years from retirement as of next fall. Covid has made me wish it was less. Ha. Although I'd like to get a sabbatical before the end. Got things to write!
- Wed Nov 25, 2020 7:17 am
- Forum: Alexander's contemporaries
- Topic: Three books on the Achaemenids
- Replies: 3
- Views: 18332
Re: Three books on the Achaemenids
Glad to see Brosius's book. I use her smaller one, The Persians, in my ANE class. Will be sure to put the new one on order.
But what do you mean she "quit" the ancient racket?
But what do you mean she "quit" the ancient racket?
- Wed Sep 23, 2020 6:20 am
- Forum: Alexander's contemporaries
- Topic: Hephaiston's death
- Replies: 21
- Views: 37265
Re: Hephaiston's death
Interesting question, Alexias! Quite possible.
For all they were decent physicians (compared to other eras) their lack of knowledge of diagnostics combined with things such as Humor Theory, they sometimes caused the very death they were trying to avoid.
For all they were decent physicians (compared to other eras) their lack of knowledge of diagnostics combined with things such as Humor Theory, they sometimes caused the very death they were trying to avoid.
- Wed Sep 23, 2020 6:17 am
- Forum: Philip and Alexander's predecessors
- Topic: Philip II by Ed Anson
- Replies: 1
- Views: 11531
Philip II by Ed Anson
Arriving very soon (as in October 1st) is a new bio on Philip that has textbook potential. Ed(ward) Anson is a long-time Macedoniast, teaches in Arkansas, has authored multiple articles and tends to deal especially with both pre-Alexander and post-Alexander (early Hellenistic, including the infamous...
- Tue Sep 22, 2020 6:02 am
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Barbarian.
- Replies: 6
- Views: 7082
Re: Barbarian.
JHarris ... yes, that's generally true. But it's all rather more complicated, as issues of ethnos and genos and the borders of the oikumene changed across time (as we can imagine). Some groups of barbaroi were viewed as "more civilized" while others were less so. In general, east and south...
- Tue Sep 22, 2020 5:52 am
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: The death of Alexander the Great - poisoning hypothesis
- Replies: 6
- Views: 9098
Re: The death of Alexander the Great - poisoning hypothesis
Some while back the University of Mary School of Medicine took this on. What made their analysis a bit different was that they actually called in a historian to help them understand the biases in the texts, instead of taking everything at face value...something a lot of medical people don't do, resu...
- Sat Aug 15, 2020 5:22 am
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Barbarian.
- Replies: 6
- Views: 7082
Re: Barbarian.
Sikander! You got in! Yay! As for Barbaros, the term's meaning shifted (as words do). Initially, it meant only "Somebody who doesn't speak Greek," using the Persian tongue which, to Greeks, sounded rather like "Bar-bar-bar," so it means "the Bar-bar people." Obviously, ...
- Sun Jul 05, 2020 9:38 am
- Forum: Alexander's contemporaries
- Topic: Hephaiston's death
- Replies: 21
- Views: 37265
Re: Hephaiston's death
Basically what Alexias said. If it had been poison, or even the suspicion of it, given ATG's mental state at the time, he'd have turned out the hounds. He did kill the physician, but for malpractice (at least, IHO). Keep in mind that Alexander did have some medical training, but emotions were in con...
- Sun Jul 05, 2020 9:33 am
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Xenophon
- Replies: 11
- Views: 11012
Re: Xenophon
I'm very sad to hear this. I've been only intermittently on Pothos in the last decade or more, but I do remember him. having just lost, in April, a very old friend of mine, I can empathize with a known and valued voice going silent.
My best wishes to his family and friends.
My best wishes to his family and friends.