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A quick attempt at translating Seibert's statement in what is hopefully correct English: "(...) in Diodorus an exact usage of constitutional terminology of the age of the Successors is to be observed." I have read part of Green's book, but to be honest, I was rather disappointed by it. The...

Frequently one wonders if Arrian had any idea what these terms actually meant. Indeed one does. The impression is that the primary sources used such terminology as a matter of course. Further, given the intended audience, they felt no need to explain in any meaningful way what it all meant. This se...

Arimazes believing that his situation was desperate, whereas it was in fact not hopeless, came down to the king's camp with his relatives and the principal nobles of his race; Alexander ordered all these to be scourged and crucified at the very foot of the rock. In addition, I must say that I don't...

The theme of the world-wide empire is a very interesting one, but I am not so sure that it necessarily was Antigonid propaganda. The view that only the Antigonids aimed at gaining control of Alexander's entire empire seems a misconception to me. I would say that all Successors, including Ptolemy, ha...

I would not call Goukowsky's work a real commentary. He has provided elaborate and very useful notes to the text, but it is not as thorough and complete as seperate commentary would be. Of course, the format of the series does not allow for that.

I agree too with your analysis of where we stand vis a vis Klietarchos, but we cannot just give up; everything can only be hypothesis but some will stand up better than others, one hopes and just how the so-called Vulgate relates to the 'official' history depends fundamentally on our perception of ...

Some very interesting thoughts there, Agesilaos. I cannot engage with all of it, but I thought it might be interesting to point out that there still was some interest in Aiakid descent in the first century. Charles Edson has published a first century inscription from near Pydna of someone claiming A...

Ancient historiography was literary genre and while ancient historians certainly cared about the truth, they also liked to show off oratorical talent. I usually dislike arguments which try to denounce a source simply by pointing to its rhetorical character. This passage of Justin, however, is so rhe...

I guess this is the book that was previously announced as 'Blackwell's companion to Alexander the Great' in the series 'Blackwell's companions to the Ancient World'. It is certainly not a volume of conference proceedings. The book you are talking about, Amyntoros, will probably be published by Regin...

It comes as no surprise that you have found conflicting information on this matter, since it is debated whether Polyperchon actually sent Alexander IV and Rhoxane to Epeiros in the first place. I do not know which view finds most support in the sources and for the moment I have no time to engage wit...

Apparently, then, wikipedia is not really reliable concerning the date of construction of the Pharos. The only sources for it are the Suda (s.v. Pharos) which says it was built in 297 (the year Pyrrhos returned to Epirus) and Eusebius' Chronicle, dating it in 283/2. P.M. Fraser ( Ptolemaic Alexandri...

The lighthouse in Alexandria was built by Sostratos of Knidos, a Friend of Ptolemy. The construction probably started in 297 BC and it was (also probably) finished in 282 BC. Not much is known about its construction, so we don't know whose idea it was. It might have been Ptolemy's or Sostratos'. I s...

Hi Amyntoros, Heckel elaborated this theory in his article 'Alexander the Great and the "Limits of the Civilised World"', in W. Heckel & L.A. Tritle, The Crossroads of History. The Age of Alexander , Claremont, CA: Regina Books 2003, 147-174. Unfortunately, I do not have time to engage...

Hi Dean and Paralus, Transport and communication probably did play their part, but we should not loose sight of the time perspective. Alexander's empire was built 2300 years ago, while the British empire is in comparison quite young. After all, Greek was the main language in the east of the Roman Em...

just received Brill's Classical Studies E-Bulletin. Apparently there will also be an online version of Brill's New Jacoby: Announcing a NEW ONLINE REFERENCE WORK: BrillGÇÖs New Jacoby --The NEW standard reference work on the Greek historical fragments. Brill will shortly be announcing a new forthcom...