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- 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...
- 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...
- 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.
Alexander did not have a telescope of any kind. Aristotle did have some magnifying glasses, but that's about it.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...