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- Sat Oct 12, 2019 11:15 am
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: The Date of Alexander's Birth
- Replies: 55
- Views: 458561
Re: The Date of Alexander's Birth
That is not how Plutarch works though ... he read a lot and combined it idiosyncratically (we can debate how much he read directly and how much through 'sourcebooks' and collections of 'best bits', and how much he bothered to re-read as he was writing his Alexander and how much he cited from memory)...
- Fri Oct 11, 2019 11:03 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: The Date of Alexander's Birth
- Replies: 55
- Views: 458561
Re: The Date of Alexander's Birth
Synchronizations and Plut. Vit. Al. 3.5-9 ... there are a lot of them in Greek historical writing (eg. Herodotus has matched pairs of land battles and sea battles on the same day, most of us suspect that they were really 'within a month or so of one another'). Its always a good idea to be careful wh...
- Thu Sep 26, 2019 2:23 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: A Fourth Calgary Dissertation
- Replies: 0
- Views: 6342
A Fourth Calgary Dissertation
Back in 2015 I blogged about three Calgary dissertations related to Alexander, ancient Macedonia, or ancient horse culture. The fourth of this group is now finished: Dr. Megan Falconer Ward, East Looking West: the Relationship between the Western Satraps and the Greeks (2018) http://hdl.handle.net/1...
- Wed Sep 18, 2019 11:15 am
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: The Date of Alexander's Birth
- Replies: 55
- Views: 458561
Re: The Date of Alexander's Birth
Yes, if its one of the events in his life recorded in Babylonian sources, you can just pop the date into MesoCalc http://baptiste.meles.free.fr/site/mesocalc.html but Greek calendars are complicated and late writers like Plutarch may have already tried to convert between systems and changed the data...
- Tue Sep 10, 2019 8:23 pm
- Forum: Art and Culture
- Topic: The Derveni Gorget/Help with Modern Greek
- Replies: 3
- Views: 7476
Re: The Derveni Gorget/Help with Modern Greek
Thank you! Maybe the reason I could not find it in dictionaries is that it is a compound word?
Professor Themelis has made his book free to download on academia dot etu
Professor Themelis has made his book free to download on academia dot etu
- Sun Sep 08, 2019 11:52 am
- Forum: Art and Culture
- Topic: The Derveni Gorget/Help with Modern Greek
- Replies: 3
- Views: 7476
The Derveni Gorget/Help with Modern Greek
Plutarch tells us that Alexander, like many North Aegean warriors, wore an iron gorget . The best preserved one is from tomb B at Derveni and is covered in bronze scales. Petros Themelis describes it as follows in his 1997 book ΟΙ ΤΑΦΟΙ ΤΟΥ ΔΕΡΒΕΝΙΟΥ pages 84 and 85: Β46. Μηνοειδές περιτραχήλιον (Πί...
- Wed Aug 07, 2019 9:08 am
- Forum: 'Off-topic' forum
- Topic: Huge anchor
- Replies: 2
- Views: 6018
Re: Huge anchor
Humh, from the age of Sostratos of Aegina
- Sat Aug 03, 2019 8:52 am
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Hunting and archery
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5130
Re: Hunting and archery
If you want to learn about the way Alexander would have hunted as he grew up, the best start is Xenophon on hunting.
I would expect that Alexander trained with a bow, a sling, a knife, and any weapon that existed in 4th century Macedonia but bow hunting was not very fashionable.
I would expect that Alexander trained with a bow, a sling, a knife, and any weapon that existed in 4th century Macedonia but bow hunting was not very fashionable.
- Tue Jul 30, 2019 2:04 pm
- Forum: Book reviews
- Topic: Historical inaccuracies
- Replies: 10
- Views: 14152
Re: Historical inaccuracies
I can't comment on the novel (have not read it yet) but the specialists in Old Iranian think that it was full of diminutives including people like Xenophon's Ariaios. Onomastics is a big field with intimidating jargon and I am not the Greek scholar I would like to be. Babylonians liked nicknames and...
- Fri Jul 12, 2019 5:31 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Power causes Brain Damage?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4344
Re: Power causes Brain Damage?
I would expect that losing, killing, or having to send away so many friends unsettled Alexander, and so did going from a boy who might or might not become king to king of a small kingdom to King of the World with rituals and flunkies to keep others from getting close or saying impolitic things. The ...
- Fri Jul 12, 2019 3:35 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Power causes Brain Damage?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4344
Re: Power causes Brain Damage?
As an ordinary person who has lived his whole life in small countries next to large countries with powerful people, I can't comment on this thread without getting political, except to say that they seem to be describing a truism in medicalized language which someone from another culture could descri...
- Thu Jun 13, 2019 11:47 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Kathleen Toohey on the Pinarus River
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2654
Kathleen Toohey on the Pinarus River
https://www.academia.edu/38915045/Battl ... arus_River
She has a series of articles, I think they are based on an old MA or PhD thesis which she is revising.
This used to be a 'session' but I can't find that now.
She has a series of articles, I think they are based on an old MA or PhD thesis which she is revising.
This used to be a 'session' but I can't find that now.
- Thu Jun 13, 2019 10:36 pm
- Forum: Comments, help, suggestions etc
- Topic: phpBB updated
- Replies: 14
- Views: 27853
Re: phpBB updated
For my own site I am looking into static site generators like Hugo. They seem a way better choice than Wordpress if you don't want comments and like buttons and the ability to edit your site from the beach and all that other rubbish which creates security holes and creates the possibility of a datab...
- Thu Jun 13, 2019 4:43 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: ATG Geography: WHERE IS NORA? + FORCED MARCHES
- Replies: 80
- Views: 42340
Re: ATG Geography: WHERE IS NORA? + FORCED MARCHES
This is a very good thread, the digressions are all 'good digressions' and I agree that the rules of thumb people suggest are trustworthy rules of thumb. I found a Robert Rollinger footnote on the location of Thapsacus, from Robert Rollinger, "Griechische Spezialisten im alten Vorderasien, oder...
- Thu Jun 13, 2019 11:22 am
- Forum: Comments, help, suggestions etc
- Topic: phpBB updated
- Replies: 14
- Views: 27853
Re: phpBB updated
Thanks Thomas. Keeping all of these threads available is important, there are some good discussions and people put in a lot of work.