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by Jeanne Reames
Tue Sep 19, 2017 3:28 am
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: Greek Mercenaries at Issus
Replies: 4
Views: 3014

Re: Greek Mercenaries at Issus

Way back in the '70s, Gene Borza wrote an article on the revolt called "The End of Agis's Revolt," but I'm sure there's something more recent. Alas, it's not something I've spent a lot of time reading about, but if the ancient sources mention it, it may be in Gene's article. Sometimes, tho...
by Jeanne Reames
Thu Sep 14, 2017 7:52 am
Forum: Book reviews
Topic: Dancing with the Lion (novels on the young ATG)
Replies: 39
Views: 31999

Re: Dancing with the Lion (novels on the young ATG)

Exactly, Peter can do very rigorous history. As noted, he gave me the best edit I've had to date. Our quibbles were mostly on how to present ancient sources. That said, he is *also* a master of essay writing. His The Shadow of the Parthenon & Classical Bearings are among his best work. Like Eric...
by Jeanne Reames
Wed Sep 13, 2017 6:09 am
Forum: Art and Culture
Topic: Alexanders telescope / spyglass
Replies: 6
Views: 3571

Re: Alexanders telescope / spyglass

This sounds like something out of the Alexander Romance.

Alexander did not have a telescope of any kind. Aristotle did have some magnifying glasses, but that's about it.
by Jeanne Reames
Fri Sep 08, 2017 4:34 am
Forum: Book reviews
Topic: Dancing with the Lion (novels on the young ATG)
Replies: 39
Views: 31999

Re: Dancing with the Lion (novels on the young ATG)

Sean -- I sorta wish more academic publishers *did* that. And it's one reason I prefer to 1) transliterate Greek words and 2) provide translations of Greek (or Latin). I remember BEING an "really interested outsider" and how frustrating it was when the author of the article provided no tra...
by Jeanne Reames
Tue Sep 05, 2017 6:41 am
Forum: Book reviews
Topic: Dancing with the Lion (novels on the young ATG)
Replies: 39
Views: 31999

Re: Dancing with the Lion (novels on the young ATG)

I am somewhat familiar with Alexander fanfiction as a result of researching the "Cult of Hephaistion" article. I did unofficial surveys for it, and quite a few of the respondents wrote Alexander fanfic, or read it. What struck me is that a number of the authors were fairly well-read (and d...
by Jeanne Reames
Tue Sep 05, 2017 6:21 am
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: Alexander and sleeping habit
Replies: 16
Views: 8127

Re: Alexander and sleeping habit

The ball story, like a lot of anecdotes, is false, created later during the Imperial period.
by Jeanne Reames
Mon Sep 04, 2017 7:02 am
Forum: Book reviews
Topic: Dancing with the Lion (novels on the young ATG)
Replies: 39
Views: 31999

Re: Dancing with the Lion (novels on the young ATG)

What Sean says is exactly correct about historicals. By contrast, the LBGTQ market is very large (although historicals don't necessarily fare well there), and Romance is the bread-and-butter of publishing. Riptide is taking a chance on me, and I'm grateful. I like to think of the novel as an LGBTQ-f...
by Jeanne Reames
Sun Sep 03, 2017 4:56 am
Forum: Book reviews
Topic: Dancing with the Lion (novels on the young ATG)
Replies: 39
Views: 31999

Re: Dancing with the Lion (novels on the young ATG)

Sean -- Actually Peter Green wrote a couple, one on Sappho and another on Alcibiades (which I personally prefer to the Pressfield novel). I keep telling Beth (Carney) she needs to write one on Olympias after she retires. :-) Also, Judith Tarr is a medievalist (PhD from Yale) who writes historical f...
by Jeanne Reames
Thu Aug 24, 2017 7:06 am
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: Forthcoming Conference on Philip and Alexander in Edmonton
Replies: 14
Views: 7679

Re: Forthcoming Conference on Philip and Alexander in Edmonton

N.B., these conferences are not always open to the public. Before anybody shows up, you should contact Dr. Pownell . It's not intentionally exclusive, but conference venues often have to be paid for, etc. They're not free. I've run conferences before, and trust me, there's a lot of money involved in...
by Jeanne Reames
Thu Aug 24, 2017 6:27 am
Forum: Book reviews
Topic: Dancing with the Lion (novels on the young ATG)
Replies: 39
Views: 31999

Re: Dancing with the Lion (novels on the young ATG)

Alexander is a teen boy in the novel, so of course he's inconsistent. *GRIN* But more to the point, I think *most* people are inconsistent because we're human. We change across time, and consistency is, I think, a fiction of our need to make sense of our own actions. Historians can be especially gui...
by Jeanne Reames
Wed Aug 23, 2017 5:23 am
Forum: Book reviews
Topic: Dancing with the Lion (novels on the young ATG)
Replies: 39
Views: 31999

Dancing with the Lion (novels on the young ATG)

Not sure if this belongs here, or in ATG in the Media (moderators, please move if I'm in the wrong spot), but...I am now free to announce: Riptide Publishing has bought a 2-book novel pair from me about Alexander before he became The Great. It should appear in late 2018 or early 2019 (depending on e...
by Jeanne Reames
Wed Sep 14, 2016 1:48 am
Forum: Alexander the Great in the Media
Topic: New podcast about Alexander
Replies: 11
Views: 11476

Re: New podcast about Alexander

Alexias -- I think you missed the point. It's not having an opinion that I object to. It was having an opinion without actually listening to the material in question as some of your comments and objections were, in fact, covered in the podcast. And I won't apologize for being an expert. Nor will I a...
by Jeanne Reames
Tue Sep 13, 2016 6:43 am
Forum: Alexander the Great in the Media
Topic: New podcast about Alexander
Replies: 11
Views: 11476

Re: New podcast about Alexander

Alexias -- I'd invite you to listen to the podcast before commenting. That's a gentle rebuke. It's unprofessional to comment on/review a monograph or similar before reading/(listening to) the whole. Several of your points are addressed in the podcast (even supported), or don't really make sense in t...
by Jeanne Reames
Mon Aug 29, 2016 5:56 am
Forum: Alexander's contemporaries
Topic: The wedding of Philip and Olympias
Replies: 1
Views: 9418

Re: The wedding of Philip and Olympias

Athenaeus (13.557b-e) (fragment of Satyrus) provides us with a list of Philip's wives more or less in order (some debate as to whether Audata was first, as Athenaeus, or Phila). Please see Elizabeth D. Carney, Women and Monarchy in Macedonia , pp. 52ff., for a full discussion. Also William Greenwalt...
by Jeanne Reames
Tue Jul 19, 2016 6:36 am
Forum: Philip and Alexander's predecessors
Topic: Tomb II or I?
Replies: 5
Views: 12912

Re: Tomb II or I?

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26195763 Recent article on the bones in Tomb I, which makes a really good case these are Philip's, which bucks up the issues with the bones in Tomb II, plus various other dating issues from salt-cellars to the vaulted architecture. When I first read about the bones...