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A Digression : One of the reasons that Forum debate such as this thrives is that two people can read the same evidence..... and draw entirely different conclusions !! .....And one of the main reasons for this, as has been shown in study after study, is that people do NOT generally take an objective...

Chris Taylor wrote: As there is no other male member of the Royal House of Macedon known to have had facial assymmetry, Neave's reconstruction settles the argument for good. It MUST be Phillip II. As soon as I read Musgrave et al's paper some time ago, I felt he made a persuasive case. In case anyon...

Phew!! .....you go away, play with electronic Opsimeter armed with new clues regarding Antigonus march, and the thread moves on at lightning speed !! Since I've done the research, I'll post my findings anyway......... Paralus wrote: (Ramsay) “This is the "strong Castle of Hirakla," as the ...

Paralus wrote: The location is likely never to be settled. It has to be north of the Taurus range for if it were the Mediterranean side it will have been identified as being in Cilicia. Eumenes can hardly be said to have departed Nora for Cilicia if it were the seaward side of the range. The most li...

Re elephants: we are dealing here with Asian elephants whose range is only 7-13 miles per day, and they will be feeding and drinking all the time, this does not happen on a march and it is the water breaks especially which curtail the distance elephants can move, they can become dehydrated quite qu...

Agesilaos wrote: So Nora should be within 1.5 miles of Sar. Nice reasoning, but it seems to me that there are a couple of missing links in your deductive logic chain. 1. Sisines ( sobriquet or sibling of King Archelaos) used Nora as a treasury. 2. Their/his father, also Archelaos began as a priest o...

Paralus wrote: In that latter example we might add another word to Xenophon's lexicon above (Diod.18.73.1): For this end he selected from his entire army twenty thousand lightly equipped infantry (εὐζώνους πεζοὺς) and four thousand cavalry and set out for Cilicia... This is similar to the force (the...

Agesilaos wrote: What you are missing, and I must confess to have forgotten too, is that the Royal army contained elephants;they figure prominently in the battle at Camel fort. They mean that the army can only travel at nine miles per day, fortunately I reckoned Perdikkas at moving only ten per day ...

Yes, the antikythera mechanism is another wonder of the ancient world.....it would be the 19th century before another mechanical calculator would be built, by Charles Babbage - hailed as the 'father of the computer'. ( I guess that makes the anonymous Greek builder of the antikythera mechanism the '...

Agesilaos wrote: Hiphys? Common people! ? The man on the Clapham omnibus does not give a flying copulation for Alexander, so I presume you mean must ill-educated public school boys; annoying but hardly 'common'. Oh, dear! .....Do I detect just the faintest whiff of elitism here? I and most of the sc...

Paralus wrote: The difference has long been held to be the advance force in Asia under Parmenion and Calas and this is likely correct else we must postulate very large drafts to reach the 47,000 at Gaugamenla (or even Polybius' 45,000 by Issus) including all those left dead on various battlefields, ...

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I hope that Pothosians will find the following Essay of interest and perhaps even thought provoking. Almost all of what follows is open to debate, and I hope that will occur, and that ‘spin-off’ threads will emerge about the various matters referred to. Firstly, let us consider Alexander’s role as K...

I think some people are rather missing the point of the article, which is that Alexander was NOT "dressing up as Artemis", rather he was appearing as his Persian subjects would expect him to - as the 'Shahshahn', King of Kings; Great King to the Greeks - and doing the things the Great King...

A most intersting article....bit wordy and repetitive in places, but the author's interpretation of the Epihippus fragment is quite logical, plausible and convincing.....