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- Sat Jul 22, 2017 10:59 pm
- Forum: Alexander's contemporaries
- Topic: Conquest of Italy alternate history
- Replies: 5
- Views: 12315
Re: Conquest of Italy alternate history
Sorry, I don't know it although it sounds like a published novel rather than a piece of fan fiction (so not freely available). Anyway, here are the pages: https://ic.pics.livejournal.com/kizzikat/11326101/130566/130566_800.jpg https://ic.pics.livejournal.com/kizzikat/11326101/130881/130881_800.jpg S...
- Sat Jul 22, 2017 10:40 am
- Forum: Art and Culture
- Topic: A new statue of Alexander ? Alexandria + SOME FINDINGS
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3045
Re: A new statue of Alexander ? Alexandria
Thanks, Pauline. The statue itself is about 20 mins into the lecture.
- Sat Jul 22, 2017 10:23 am
- Forum: Alexander's contemporaries
- Topic: Conquest of Italy alternate history
- Replies: 5
- Views: 12315
Re: Conquest of Italy alternate history
You may be thinking of Arnold Toynbee's essay 'Had Alexander the Great lived on' from his book "Some problems of Greek history", part of which deals with Alexander's conquest of Italy. I'll upload a couple of pages later on.
- Sun Jul 09, 2017 10:45 am
- Forum: Art and Culture
- Topic: Cameo of Alexander
- Replies: 0
- Views: 2947
Cameo of Alexander
Sorry about the poor quality of the photo
- Mon Jun 19, 2017 1:31 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Did Alexander command the PHALANX at Chaeronea?
- Replies: 122
- Views: 95617
Re: Did Alexander command the PHALANX at Chaeronea?
Please see SpartanJKM's earlier post which was awaiting approval. Yes, his post was there when I wrote mine. But "Alexander could have charged the Theban phalanx with his cavalry" is not the same as "the ancient sources suggest that Alexander charged the Theban phalanx with his caval...
- Mon Jun 19, 2017 11:30 am
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Did Alexander command the PHALANX at Chaeronea?
- Replies: 122
- Views: 95617
Re: Did Alexander command the PHALANX at Chaeronea?
Please see SpartanJKM's earlier post which was awaiting approval.
- Wed Jun 14, 2017 9:33 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Did Alexander command the PHALANX at Chaeronea?
- Replies: 122
- Views: 95617
Re: Did Alexander command the PHALANX at Chaeronea?
Ah, right, we were beginning to wonder if you were a spammer!
- Wed Jun 14, 2017 4:04 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Did Alexander command the PHALANX at Chaeronea?
- Replies: 122
- Views: 95617
Re: Did Alexander command the PHALANX at Chaeronea?
For some reason, this post keeps disappearing so I am replying to in the hope that it will not disappear.
- Sun Jun 11, 2017 4:34 pm
- Forum: Alexander's contemporaries
- Topic: What happened to Nearchus' fleet?
- Replies: 34
- Views: 35493
Re: What happened to Nearchus' fleet?
Interesting points, krhuck. To pick up on an earlier point in this thread about Hellenistic finds in India and Africa, these would seem to be trading points as it is reputed that St Thomas went to the west coast of India in the 1st cent. AD. Now he would have been unlikely to go there unless there w...
- Sun Jun 11, 2017 4:10 pm
- Forum: Alexander's contemporaries
- Topic: Pella mosaic
- Replies: 13
- Views: 19804
Re: Pella mosaic
Maybe you're right. It seems odd that so much prominence is given to the figure on the left. Perhaps the figure on the right is a divine helper.
- Sun Jun 04, 2017 11:04 pm
- Forum: Alexander's contemporaries
- Topic: Pella mosaic
- Replies: 13
- Views: 19804
Re: Pella mosaic
Ok, no idea why that picture disappeared
- Sat Jun 03, 2017 10:24 pm
- Forum: Alexander's contemporaries
- Topic: Pella mosaic
- Replies: 13
- Views: 19804
Pella mosaic
I have been reading The Twin Soul of Alexander by Lawrence M. Scheier (a truly dreadful novel to be avoided at all costs), but on the front is the Pella deer hunt mosaic. http://www.macedonian-heritage.gr/HellenicMacedonia/media/original/b1233a.jpg Traditionally Alexander is said to be the figure on...
- Wed May 31, 2017 8:03 pm
- Forum: Alexander's contemporaries
- Topic: Alexander IV wasn't the only child of Alexander: The Great. There were 8 others too.
- Replies: 11
- Views: 18957
Re: Alexander IV wasn't the only child of Alexander: The Great. There were 8 others too.
This has been discussed here several times before. The general consensus amongst historian appears to be that Justin wouldn't have bothered to invent a baby that didn't exist, and that it was likely to have been a boy as a girl might not have warranted a mention. The child died about 18 months after...
- Mon May 29, 2017 8:34 pm
- Forum: Art and Culture
- Topic: Treasury of Atreus
- Replies: 14
- Views: 180779
Re: Treasury of Atreus
Yes, Delphi, of course perched up on the hillside, and the Argive Plain is typical - a ring of hill forts eying each other over the fertile (and perhaps waterlogged) plain - Argos, Mycenae, Midea and Tiryns. The exception is Tiryns, which kept getting flooded! http://ic.pics.livejournal.com/kizzikat...
- Sun May 28, 2017 8:12 pm
- Forum: Art and Culture
- Topic: Treasury of Atreus
- Replies: 14
- Views: 180779
Re: Treasury of Atreus
I haven't been able to find a date for the rebuilding of the walls at Mycenae, but I think the Argives might have had a hand in it. They destroyed Mycenae and Tiryns in 468 BC, and if they allowed Pyrrhos' troops to raid the tombs at Mycenae (or weren't in a position to prevent it) approx. 272 BC, t...