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Hi, all! About myths and heroes : a new perspective has come recently from a book by Adrienne Mayor, “The first fossil hunters”. The thesis is that there is a striking correlation between fossil finds and Greek myths and folklore. In other words, the Greeks imagined giants, monsters and heroes (who ...

Hi, all! I don’t think that Macedonians and Transylvanians were the same thing, still less that either drank blood, but there is something that links the Greek world to the legend of Vampyres and hasn’t yet been researched, for what I know. It is in Homer, Odyssey, book XI, also known as “the Nékuia...

Athenas owl wrote: If the Romans had already been conquered by ATG, a whole other history would have happened. The Parthians might have reconquered Asia Minor, or a successful dynasty of ATG's own making might have continued. If that had been the case the Seleucids would not have been as such. If AT...

Hi, all. I don’t see many differences between what happened and what could have happened as far as Christianity is concerned. After all, in the second century b.C. the Jews had already rebelled against the Seleucids, who were a Macedonic empire and not always tolerant in religious matters; it was th...

Hi, Val! I'm quoting from Andrew Chugg's " Alexander 's lovers", pag. 169-170: ... The Suda has the following entry: DRAKON, grandson of Hippokrates the famous doctor; son of Thessalos; father of Hippokrates, who again had a son Drakon, the latter being the doctor who healed Roxane while s...

One more inaccuracy, this time a factual one: Olympias mentions Kynnane as a suitable bride for Alexander (at least in the version I saw), but Kynnane was the daughter of Philip and Audata and therefore Alexander's half-sister; such a marriage was impossible according to Macedonian law. Why did Ston...

Another one: Alexander shouldn't sport that absurdly long hair in the first place, but definitely he shouldn't on his deathbed, because he is supposed to have cut it eight months before when Hephaestion died. Had I been the director, I would have found inspiration in the Pergamon head and would have...

Hi, all! I like the film and am enjoying this thread very much! When he was called to Mieza, Aristotle was forty and was not a grandfather figure like film directors persist in representing him. He was an avant-garde philosopher still in his prime who, for A. and his mates, could have represented a ...

Hi, Ruthaki and Amyntoros. You are absolutely right... and yet bad (or not-so-good) fiction can have disconcerting effects! I saw Robert Rossen's movie in 1956, when I was a child; Christmas holidays were beginning, I was full of expectation for some presents long awaited for, and on top of it all t...

Hi, Sikander. Unfortunately I can’t contribute anything, at the moment, about Parmenio’s wife. However, while looking in the Internet, I found traces of the author’s inquiries on http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/a/257809.htm, where he seems to believe that Alexander’s general wrote poems. Now, as f...

Hi, all. Reading Arrian, one wouldn't be surprised if the number of noncombatant in the Gedrosian expedition had been unusually high. He begins the description of Gedrosia quoting Aristobulos: In this desert myrrh trees grow larger than anywhere else, and the Phoenician merchants who followed the ar...

You bet! But, why is that Smily blushing? "Omnia munda mundis"!
Besides, I'm afraid Oliver Stone will keep the spicy bits for the fourth edition. All the best
Azara

Well, you don't have to sit through four hours of Alexander deeds... you can stand up, go to the bathroom, take a break as long as you wish... it is only a DVD, after all, not Guantanamo prison! :) I think this new release ( if and when et cetera) may contain some interesting material, especially to...

So the book does exist, after all! I have just checked on Amazon.com: yesterday only a seller named Langton info services uk admitted having 1 hardcover copy In Stock , asking the fantastic price of $ 146,62 and adding that it is GÇ£brand new, in perfect conditionGÇ¥(itGÇÖs to be hoped for!). Today ...

Oooh, Amyntoros, what a disappointment!:( I was looking forward to shooting an order at Amazon and now the publication of the book turns out to be put off! In Italy it was listed in the on-line catalogue of a university bookshop (unless I have dreamt it), but IGÇÖve just checked and it isnGÇÖt there...