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neneh..thank you for the post. I've been on my own perilous expedition the past few days, with the grandkids and I've barely survived. In fact I collapsed on top of my bed yesterday afternoon just waking up a little bit ago. I'll come back to this when I can do it justice. Though I agree with your i...

Well, I think it was well planned, as far as that could go...the whole Nearchus angle is kind of suspicious, I have wondered if his later career was so lackluster because his part or lack there of in the whole Gedrosian thing. The others, while not publicly blaming him really didn't give him the tim...

Paralus, no...I wasn't referring to Lysimacheia. Lysimachus rebuilt the Temple of Athena, Troy VIII-ish...which again, if memeory serves, parts of it, at least were leveled off by the Romans to create their own version IX or X (no books handy here). But it wasn't just a temple, Lysimachus helped cre...

Did Alexander visit Heinrich Schliemanns(incorrect spelling) city of Troy? Or was it probably just an area said by locals to be where Troy once stood? I could see local people claiming an area was Troy just as a 'themepark' style moneymaker situation. "Oh sure, we know where Troy is, give us t...

spitamenes wrote: Hopefully I can trump Iron Maidens "Alexander the Great" song. I was rockin in the 80s but even I can't handle that one!

Ha! Yeah, that song was definitely a Spinal Tap moment

There are worse things than sounding like the Who! :wink: Have you ever listened to Daemonia Nymphe ? Check them out on Youtube. Not sure how accurate, but I think it might give a sense? My musical knowledge is zip..but I do recall reading that Gregorian chants have their roots in Greek music. Possi...

spitamenes, thanks for the offer. My folks are all okay (except for the kids and their schools. Sounds most of the schools were damaged or destroyed.) An earthquake? I grew up with tornadoes, though nothing like this one. Funny thing now is, I'm the only one in my family that has a basement (some ha...

Thanks Marcus, those little stories are usually what I end up remembering most in the sources. I think its because a lot of them can really capture the imagination and almost give you a sense of what it was like to be there. Like when the army marched through a field where a certain type of plant o...

Oh dear. I'd suggest some judicious editing.

Hello all! Very interesting conversation. Just a couple of things to add...Marathos was kind of a co-city with Amrit, it is on the now southern Syrian coastline, above Sidon a bit. I think an island was involved, but I'd have to look that up. Don't know if that makes a difference or not. Secondly, I...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLM_H54oVyQ I could swear I watched this sometime ago....or perhaps it was some other "documentary" that I simply had to turn the channel on, as the eye rolling was causing me physical harm. Anyway, take a gander at the you-tube link above....it's part one. Y...

:lol: :lol: :lol: Er....that was rather blunt and plain spoken watchingcat. I arrived at Pothos this morning to add some links, but read this first. I'll have to come back, though, because I can't stop laughing. Really naughty. Do you talk to your classics prof with that mouth? That said, I agree fo...

Part three: http://blogs.forbes.com/booked/2010/12/20/two-historians-talk-alexander-the-great-part-3/ Once the holidays are over (for me that means possibly through the 7th of January...Russian Orthodox (Kodiak style) in the family mix and I am the main cook and bottle washer,decorator etc.) I'll co...

http://blogs.forbes.com/booked/2010/12/12/two-great-historians-on-alexander-the-great-part-one/ http://blogs.forbes.com/booked/2010/12/17/two-great-historians-on-alexander-the-great-part-two/ Found this via Rogueclassicism, a multi part conversation between Paul Cartledge and James Romm. In "Fo...

Ah....I have a soft spot of "Jason and the Argonauts", which is from the early 60's. I loved it as a kid (when the special effects were pretty awesome for their time). I watched it again recently and it is dated, true, but those armed skeletons rising out of the earth were the best. Which ...