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This is a test to see if I can post a photo as there may be an issue. I don't remember where I got this photo from.

The Geography of Strabo Literally translated with notes. The first six books by H. C. Hamilton, Esq.The remainder by W. Falconer, M.A. Published by Henry G. Bohn, London, 1856 NOTICE. The present translation of Strabo, the great Geographer of Antiquity, is the first which has been laid before the E...

As a follow up to System1988's Chaeronea posts, a helmet worn by one of Alexander's cavalrymen. I can't remember if I've posted this before but it is from Oxford's Ashmolean museum.

Wonder if he survived for Gaugamela, or whether he drowned?

Athenaeus - Deipnosophists Book XV Book XV. 683 b First, roses which Midas of Odonia, when he left his realm in Asia, grew in the Emathian* glebes, roses ever luxuriant with sixty petals all round. * Emathia, poetic name of Macedonia. Book XV 684 e A flower called ambrosia is recorded by Carystius ...

Athenaeus - Deipnosophists Book XIV Book XIV. 614 d - 615 a Hippolochus of Macedon, again, in his Letter to Lynceus mentions as jesters Mandrogenes and Straton of Athens. For at Athens there was an abundance of these clever gentry. At any rate, in the temple of Heracles, in the deme Diomeia, they w...

Athenaeus - Deipnosophists Book XIIIb Book XIII. 594 d – 596 b Harpalus, the Macedonian who plundered large sums from Alexander’s funds and then sought refuge in Athens, fell in love with Pythionice and squandered a great deal on her, though she was a courtesan; and when she died he erected a monum...

Athenaeus - Deipnosophists Book XIIIa Book XIII 555 a The comic poet Antiphanes, friend Timocrates, was once reading one of his plays to King Alexander, who, however, made it plain that he did not altogether like it. “No wonder, sire,” the poet said; “for the man who likes this play of mine must ha...

Alexander the Great: A New History edited by Waldemar Heckel and Lawrence A. Tritle This book was originally intended as a quasi-response to Oliver Stone's 2004 film 'Alexander' but it wasn't published until 2009. It is a broad introduction to the study of Alexander, but it is not a book for beginne...

Athenaeus - Deipnosophists Book XII Book XII. 513 e – 515 a (On the Persians.) The first men in history to become notorious for luxurious living were the Persians, whose kings wintered in Susa and summered in Ecbatana. (Now Susa was so called, according to Aristobulus and Chares, because of the bea...

Athenaeus - Deipnosophists Book XI Note: Book XI starts with sections 459 through 466, jumps to sections 781 through 784, and then returns to section 466. Book XI. 781 f Parmenion, summing up the booty taken from the Persians, in his Letters to Alexander, says: “Gold cups, weight seventy-three Baby...

I've merged the posts into two separate topics, basically the Sacred Band and the Macedonian pyre.

I have made a start on merging some of the posts together. I will get back to it in a bit. In the meantime, instead of starting a 'new topic'for each photo, you could 'post reply' to one of your topics to group the photos together,

I can certainly have a try to merge some of the posts together. It will have to be tomorrow though.

Hi , i would like to ask Alexias and the other pothosians ,to continue posting the exhibits or has it become tiresome as a topic ? It will be followed by findings of the Macedonian funeral pyre, Macedonian and Theban weapons,a fresco from a Macedonian tomb unknown to many of us , as well some of th...

Thank you for the photos, Pauline, and I hope you enjoyed the exhibition. Tiny question. I know we've had various discussions here https://pothos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6943 and here principally https://pothos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2841 about whether Alexander led the cavalry or the phalanx a...