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Your post made me think rather more sideways than useful, but isn't there also a Serapium in Dion, where Alexander sacrificed before heading off east? Or at least a sanctuary devoted to Serapis, Isis and Anubis? I'm not certain what date it originates from - surely after 323bce - but the sanctuary t...

I've had the Shatner Alexander for a couple of weeks now & haven't had time to play it - it sounds almost irresistible. I checked that it played ok, & am still laughing from the opening scene, so will have to set aside time to watch it all... Marcus, if you're ever in South London, let me kn...

Oh, cool - the board style pothos_cb is so good for me! Many thanks, Thomas! All this & Easter, too (I get a long weekend & can devote time to finally reading Jeanne Reames' PhD thesis.) Except my partner took one look, said it matched the shirt I was wearing & we promptly had another on...

Oh, gosh, Thomas - I didn't mean to open a can of worms or make you do more work! But you're right, the darker light blue is OK for me (except I'd not be able to tell you what colour it was without being told - it's a kindly grey for me :) ). How about the following: #99CCCC or #CCFFFF or #9999CC. A...

Thomas, I think you'll be OK with the forum colour as it is - blue/green is particularly odd one & not as pronounced, or difficult, as red/green. The forum doesn't mix blue/green, so it doesn't merge into a greyness! I have particular problems with blue - it is either rather too much or green/gr...

Ah, yes. I've been reading, but silent... The avatar is from my photo album - taken in the new pedestrianised bit of Nea Pella, just by the archaeological site of Pella, Northern Greece. (I was desparate for a coffee, but found this instead!) It was erected a couple of years ago. I guess it may be a...

Yes, many thank, Thomas! I use a couple of php forums, & find them v. user-friendly. Although I must say, as a blue/green colour blind person, I find the background shading on this forum a little disturbing! But I will get used to it, & try to post more (I was pretty silent for some years on...

I bought an icecream for everyone in my office - telling them this
was for Alexander's birthday, so I'm not a soft touch everytime it
gets hot & the a/c breaks down! Only one complained that Alexander wouldn't have had
icecreams, so could he have an ouzo instead... hmmm... discuss!...

Have just got back from Greece & saw this message - the new Hellenic Museum Shop service attached to several main Greek sites (e.g. Acropolis, Vergina, Delphi, Epidavros, Mikini) has a reproduction bust of Alexander from the Acropolis Museum on sale - & apparently they do international deliv...

I was actually restrained from buying a model of Alexander riding Bucephalus a couple of summers ago in Napflion by my partner who pointed out that I was in the middle of moving house & was living out of a suitcase & there was no room for such frivolities!!!... never saw any thing like it in...

You'll find all this & more in "Alexander the Great and the Logistics of the Macedonian Army", Donald Engels, University of California Press - but I do recall something about 3 pounds of grain per man per day... Carried in grain form so that it could be ground to make porridge or dampe...

I found it hard in the middle, but finished it as I'd been given it to review by the Journal of Classical Teaching. My final review will be kinder than previous one I've written about Pressfield (mainly concerning the tedium of Tides of War - if an author can make Alkibiades boring, I feared what he...

Goodness! Thomas Burnett Swann! That takes me back - I last read one of his (Days of the Minotaur) about 10 years ago! His books aren't that easy to come by since the demise of "Dark they were & golden eyed..." (a fantasy/scifi bookshop in Soho, closed in the late 1970s) - except, of c...

The Alexander the Great Musical? Ah mock not - there were
rumours some while ago about Andrew Lloyd-Webber & Tim Rice
writing one... It featured a chorus line of dancing elephants.
Iskander Superstar anyone?

Apologies that this is off topic - but the scariest thing I ever saw
coming towards me in combat (re-inactment) was a horse... I was
told afterwards it was an Ardenne Heavy Horse (?) but armed with
just a wooden shield & a 7ft spear, I'm afraid I just wanted to be
elsewhere....