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Since first reading about Alexander I have been fascinated by the huge feast and alleged prayer at Opis. Whether you take the actual prayer to be true or not, there must be some basis of truth behind it. What does everyone think about this Feast and Prayer? If it did occur as recorded what were Alex...

Very imaginative. I loved it! Made me smile

I was watching something on the History Channel about ancient accounts of extra terrestrials and reports of UFOs, and they said that on two separate occasions Alexander and his army saw flying saucers: once while crossing a river in Persia and once again during the siege of Tyre. They even claimed t...

Does anyone know a great book (and fairly easy to get access to) or where I can get information about ancient Greek textiles? I am looking at doing more research about the linothorax and am having trouble finding documentation on it. I realize textiles don't always survive from Greece and the surrou...

Something that has always puzzled me is the notion of Alexander having blond hair. Even though one of the most famous color representations of him that survives (the Pompeii mosaic) shows him with brown hair, it is almost popular myth to portray him blond. Where did this originate? Correct me if I'm...

Thank you everyone for your comments, even if some did get a little off topic :lol: It should be a really exciting event. When the professor gets the pictures uploaded on his website I'll have to post a link to them. Then everyone can see my linothorax I made as well. (He wants me to wear it, ha ha)...

This might be helpful: here is the web page http://www.uwgb.edu/aldreteg/hoplite6.html of the professor's attempt in a previous year (from when I went through what was called 'Hoplite Day') In the long pictures on the top, I'm the one on the right hand side with a red Spartan shield with a bold-whit...

On September 24th I'll be assisting a professor of ancient history at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, as part of an Independent Study class, in recreating the Macedonian phalanx. Professor Greg Aldrete's students have been learning about ancient Greek style of warfare and are currently up to ...

Something that really came to my attention while reading Robin Lane Fox's "Alexander" was the recognition he gives to the Agrianes (or Agrianians). Then again while re-reading Arian I found them mentioned almost every time orders were given to skirmish or engage in full battle. Others have...

I think what kick-started the negative outlook on war began with the Enlightenment. Although I'm sure the people of that time consciously didn't know what they were doing, because warfare certainly continued to be glorified even long after the Enlightenment, but they definitely sewed the seeds of di...

Has anyone ever seen this bust of Alcibiades. I came across it while randomly searching on Wikipedia and couldn't help but notice the striking resemblance of an idealized Alexander. I realize it's a Roman copy of an original Greek bust, and the Roman sculptor (I can only suspect) created it with a h...

Vergina Sun : In response to your comment "when there was no Hephaestion, there was only half of Alexander," I have to respectfully disagree. Perhaps purely in terms of emotion Alexander would definitely had felt empty: the intense grieving, his desire to construct an enormous funeral mon...

It almost seems too perfect that Alexander, who lived his life infatuated with Achilles and often imitated him, died a young man with everlasting fame. There have been many 'what ifs' made about Alexander and his plans had he not died, but I have seen little about his actual thoughts on his own deat...

:D That's great. Such a question like that will probably never be figured out. When looking at various cultures through time, there are always examples of war, on a macro level, and strife between clans, on a micro level. Chimps were once thought to be living in harmony until Jane Goodall recorded t...

Robin Lane Fox writes that "At Sestos, on the straits between Europe and Asia, Alexander was met with 160 warships." He also mentions that "his horses and siege machinery would have to be shipped in flat-bottomed craft." Alexander then left on a voyage to pay tribute to the tomb ...