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- Wed Dec 27, 2017 1:09 am
- Forum: Art and Culture
- Topic: AMPHIPOLIS 2017
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3267
Re: AMPHIPOLIS 2017
The sculpture of the first photo ,has been published in pothos .org ,and it is not from a tomb of Amphipolis .If i remember correctly it is from Asia Minor , however it is important because it is hypothesided of depicting Alexander and Hephaestion Ops, Internet is so misleading sometimes! Thanks fo...
- Thu Dec 21, 2017 8:54 pm
- Forum: 'Off-topic' forum
- Topic: References about the bull symbology in Macedonia and/or Greece
- Replies: 0
- Views: 2984
References about the bull symbology in Macedonia and/or Greece
Hello
Anyone here would suggest any studies that might give an idea if there once was any outstanding symbolic meaning regarding the Bull in Macedonia or Greece in ancient times? Apart from Minotaur and Zeus/white bull, I mean
Thanks!
Anyone here would suggest any studies that might give an idea if there once was any outstanding symbolic meaning regarding the Bull in Macedonia or Greece in ancient times? Apart from Minotaur and Zeus/white bull, I mean
Thanks!
- Thu Dec 21, 2017 8:46 pm
- Forum: Art and Culture
- Topic: Frescoes suspected of Alexander the Great
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4981
Re: Frescoes suspected of Alexander the Great
Hello Delos13, Thank you for your trouble! Ai ai ai.... What frightens many professionals is that some 'conservators' do apply their artistic vision over the object of their work. You see --- the quality of "ancient" somehow disappears for good. We don't have the actual painting any more, ...
- Thu Dec 21, 2017 8:22 pm
- Forum: Art and Culture
- Topic: AMPHIPOLIS 2017
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3267
AMPHIPOLIS: Alexander and Hephaistion?
Hi there I got this picture, and I wonder if anyone has seen this before: the upper picture is from tomb 94 at Amphipolis, and the bottom pic is an old one thought to be Alex and Hephaistion likenesses. Any ideas? They do look very similar... Alex with longer hair then Hephaistion's... Maybe human f...
- Thu Dec 14, 2017 4:55 pm
- Forum: Art and Culture
- Topic: Alexander sarcophagus
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2928
Re: Alexander sarcophagus
Truly beautiful. And the website is charming!
- Tue Dec 12, 2017 1:02 pm
- Forum: Art and Culture
- Topic: Frescoes suspected of Alexander the Great
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4981
Re: Frescoes suspected of Alexander the Great
I don't know if the picture I found is indeed a restored image or just author's vision Oh, I hope the second option is the case here! Maybe he got a PhotoShop specially for his article. Incidently, would that be possible for you to provide the link for this article you mention? Or at least the name...
- Mon Dec 11, 2017 11:05 pm
- Forum: Art and Culture
- Topic: Frescoes suspected of Alexander the Great
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4981
Re: Frescoes suspected of Alexander the Great
http://www.bulletinasiainstitute.org/abst/vol22/Muzio.jpg Oh.My.God. It is most surprising! Uzbekistan, it Must be Alexander with the Aries horns! He had been there, and, being the maelström he was, he surely had lingered. I have searched further. I found another picture of this wall painting in Li...
- Wed Nov 22, 2017 8:17 pm
- Forum: Alexander the Great in the Media
- Topic: PORUS !!!
- Replies: 3
- Views: 10463
Re: PORUS !!!
Oh I am so surprised about this Porus movie. And Bollywood make such wonderful films, very entertaining. I seen one which is very very good - Jodha Akhbar -, and it is a suggestion as well. It is Very High Quality. This Puru one looks a bit 'B' for the high Bollywood standards... Anyway, worth seein...
- Fri Oct 28, 2016 5:08 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Alexander's death: symptoms of sunstroke in that Babylon palace
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2284
Alexander's death: symptoms of sunstroke in that Babylon palace
Hi Ok, I am hanging around here, and reading posts, new and old. And the memory of one old reply to a post has striken me, a post which was about Alex's death (the original post has been deleted after the site has been updated, back in the middle of the 2000's). I remembered this guy said he was in ...
- Fri Oct 28, 2016 3:07 pm
- Forum: Art and Culture
- Topic: Visits to Alexandrian Places
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5021
Re: Visits to Alexandrian Places
Hi system1988 A very nice and intense trip, that one! Thanks for asking. It was not like 'on the footsteps of Alexander', since I wasn't thinking about him much by that time , but it came out to be very thrilling when I could see on the plane flight path screen I was actually crossing all those plac...
- Thu Oct 27, 2016 8:20 pm
- Forum: Art and Culture
- Topic: Visits to Alexandrian Places
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5021
Re: Visits to Alexandrian Places
Hello!
I finally went to Alexandrine places!
Crossed the Bosphoros. By car
Then went to India!
After that, and going Beyond Alexander
....
.... Katmandu! This one Alex never dreamed of going. Right?
I finally went to Alexandrine places!
Crossed the Bosphoros. By car
Then went to India!
After that, and going Beyond Alexander
....
.... Katmandu! This one Alex never dreamed of going. Right?
- Fri Mar 22, 2013 11:22 pm
- Forum: Alexander's contemporaries
- Topic: Battle Of Pandosia
- Replies: 28
- Views: 14249
Re: Battle Of Pandosia
I think he'd snort and snigger, and Solemnly quote The fox and the grapes, by Aesop.
- Sun Feb 24, 2013 10:45 pm
- Forum: Alexander's contemporaries
- Topic: Hephaistion's letter to Olympias:2 different interpretations
- Replies: 19
- Views: 13517
Re: Hephaistion's letter to Olympias:2 different interpretat
Hello,
What intrigues me the most in this letter is the majestic plural used when Hephaistion replies.
I wonder if that is a later adding...
Or if it is linked to the He Too Is An Alexander (read as the regal office) thing.
What intrigues me the most in this letter is the majestic plural used when Hephaistion replies.
I wonder if that is a later adding...
Or if it is linked to the He Too Is An Alexander (read as the regal office) thing.
- Fri Dec 21, 2012 9:39 pm
- Forum: Art and Culture
- Topic: The Abu Qir medallion
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2650
Re: The Abu Qir medallion
but are probably as accurate as a renaissance imagining. And as accurate as those coins with ram horns and lion's scalp, and obviously-pretty marble faces, bronze statuettes, and all that... Thanks for telling me about the Abuqir thing. Anyway, I still think it very human-faced. Oh who knows! :roll:
- Fri Dec 21, 2012 9:31 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Alexander's helmets
- Replies: 9
- Views: 16808
Re: Alexander's helmets
Merry Christmas to you too. I think they could be either decked with plumes (big birds, like swans or the like I expect), and those in bronze, like the ones in the Vergina museum. And I've seen one very nice helmet with fine drawings on the front part. I have the link - http://historizo.cafeduweb.co...