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By the way Nikas, the title of the book is Alexander the Great: The Story of an Ancient Life . Whence comes Alexander the "Monster" ? I'm assuming you feel the authors are critiquing a supposed view of Alexander as a monster? Indeed. That is my sensationalist title to imply, from what I g...

Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2013.08.44 Martin Thomas R., Christopher Blackwell, Alexander the Great: The Story of an Ancient Life. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. Pp. xiv, 193 p.. ISBN 9780521148443. $24.99. Reviewed by David W. Madsen, Seattle University (dmadsen@seattleu.edu)...

Rather an emotive passage that. One could pen a passage couched in similar emotive terms about Sparta, Thebes and Philip - not to mention Alexander III and his Successors. Perhaps the descendants of those Plataeans who survived Sparta's "settlement" of the town during the Peloponnesian Wa...

I wonder if when St. John Chrysostom asks to "show me where is the tomb of Alexander", is it rhetorical flourish regarding Alexander's "god-hood" and the non-immortality of man against the eternity of Jesus's kingdom, or is it perhaps a more literal meaning with the body of Alexa...

I recall a discussion regarding the Alexander I moniker "the Philhellene" in a long-ago discourse where I had maintained the two-fold position that this was a later addition to distinguish himself from the more illustrious Alexander III, and that this particular moniker was chosen precisel...

Well, that's an interesting view. It might be said that the Megalopolitan view was not in the interests of Greece - or Athens more likely (below). A significant number of Greeks seemingly thought that Philip's interests were not theirs and a significant number of them died making the point. System1...

To say the Messenians were desperate seems almost Demosthenic. Was Athens any less a "desperate" case than Messenia as they, after countless futile attempts to cajole, plead, or force Philip to their interests, being outwitted and out-worked at every turn, were now sending out emissaries a...

I think that would be a particularly Atheno-centric perspective. At the time leading up to, and including Chaeronea and it's aftermath, it would be safe to say that not all Greeks would have felt that way. Certainly Philip had his supporters in many of the polis, and some would have welcomed his int...

I used to get very confused about the lines of argument from both sides and your post prompted me to look again. This is a picture of the most famous facial reconstruction of the skeleton: http://www.archeolog-home.com/pages/content/vergina-tomb-grece-skeleton-may-be-alexander-the-great-s-father.ht...

Apparently there is a "substance" on the bones that has been found in other graves that they will be investigating.

http://phantis.co.uk/news/scientists-sc ... ii-macedon

Leaving aside the chronology of this campaign, I wonder if it is simply a coincidence that the number of this expeditionary force should number 10,000, assuming it did without me taking the necessary initiative to go look it up :) If it is, perhaps there is an element of symbolism involved, being th...

when he arrived at the Persian Gates,’ he found that Ariobarzanes, the viceroy of Persis, with 40,000 infantry and 700 cavalry, had built a wall across the pass, and had pitched his camp there near the wall to block Alexander’s passage. Then indeed he pitched his camp there; but next day he marshal...

He contributed two chapters to the revised Cambridge Ancient History c1996, 'Macedonia and NW Greece' and 'Creating the Macedonian Hegemony' both in volume VI 'The Fourth Century' beyond that, like Manuel 'I know nurthing' :lol: Thank you Agesilaos. He does not appear to be the most prolific of wri...

Hi everyone, I had read this a number of years ago, and recently found it in a used bookstore for a very attractive price so added it to my collection while enjoying another go with it. It occurred to me, this author hasn't published a book since the mid-seventies from what I can tell. I really enjo...

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Which ones did he lose?