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A society so advanced in culture and philosophy and the understanding of ethos, could allow their teenagers to be prey for older men? A society so advanced ... could allow for slaves? Well, it did. The point is, an "advanced society" is not an absolute category, but depends on the "a...

Hi guys, I always thought that Peritas would look like the statue in the Hellenistic room of the British Museum. Nothing like a greyhound, but more like a thin St. Bernard: hairy, muscular and (probably, because I don't know the scale of the statue) quite big. I think that it is a Molossian dog. I'm...

Hi Dean, I think I read somewhere (don't ask me where, i'm terrible with bibliography) that an ancient source (read previous bracket) offered a probable explanation: the water remained at the same temperature throughout the day. The perception, however, changed depending on the time: during the dayt...

Alexander gets vilified for Tyre or dragging Bagoas behind a chariot. Yet Darius hardly gets a mention for what he did to Alexanders sich and wounded at Issus. Alexander gets vilified for Thebes. Yet Demosthenese and his gob shites get hardly any blame for winding them up. Telling them lies about A...

Hi all,

Just one question: Chaironeia (as other spots in Ancient Greece) was a place of frequent battles. Is it possible to determine which helmets/cuirasses/greaves correspond to each?

ATB,
Alejandro

As for anybody seeking the first "Arian" race or whatever, u may look for it around the Persian Gulf (as the term was in use there in ancient times) and in ancient Thrace since it was occasionally called Areia by the Greeks cause according to the myths it was the birthplace of the god of ...

I'm not interested in comparing him with anyone else, therefore I don't have a "benchmark." It's possible to have the great est admiration for him AND recognize that he had faults, like any other person. I just want to understand him as best I can, given the available sources. Hi Amyntoro...

History is Like space and when you look at the skt at night you will see some very Bright stars. History is dotted with such dazzling bright Stars. Alexanders star for me shines the Brightest Very poetic Kenny. An entirely different kind of comparison from the one I was talking about, but a very pl...

Alexander may compare favourably when the benchmark is Hitler It is all down to personal opinion- if you are looking for faults- then you will invariably find them- and if you are on the other side of the wall, and into deifying the man then also sure enough you'll find reasons to elevate him. Hi D...

Hi guys, I think it is an extremely interesting topic the one that you consider here, namely, how to judge Alexander? Most people here will quickly brand the “according to his own times’ values” sword, and I totally agree. But this is just one aspect of the analysis, though the idea is still the sam...

Dear Agesilaos and Paralus I tend to agree with your comments, but I think you are reading too much in mine. As I said in a previous post, what Bosworth calls the “transition period” is the time from Alexander’s death to Perdikkas’ rejection of Antipatros’ daughter in favour of Kleopatra, that is, r...

The Marshals must have been used to co-operating throughout the campaign; that there was no concerted plot or contingency plan can be shown by the disparate plans offered by the various nobles (it is here that Ptolemy suggests Eumenes later suggestion - though only in Curtius, I think) and also Mel...

Hi Amyntoros, Sure, let me know your address and I'll send it to you. Yeah, I totally agree that any discussion of possible plans for after Alexander's death while he was alive would have been treasonous (or the rest of the marshals will certainly make it look like it was anyway!). But I didn't mean...

Hi Amyntoros, Thank you for the editing! If you want, I can send you the paper by email (just send me your address). Regarding the smoothness of transition, I like your analogy with the shark attack, and I agree with it. You suggest that it would have arised regardless of the place and cause of deat...

Hi there, I found the article: it is indeed Bosworth: The Death of Alexander the Great: Rumour and Propaganda . The last paragraph summarizes his hypothesis, if anyone is interested Marcus, I don't believe in the marshals' plot either (though it leads to a more "Hollywood-esque" death than...