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Hi Alessandra,thank you very much, I did not know that book yet! It would be very kind of you if send me those pictures.regards,
abm

Hi Alessandra,could you please tell me in which article/book Moreno has proposed this identification? Many thanks in advance.regards,abm

Hi Linda,thanks for pointing that out. However, for this sentence, the translation of Hamilton and Falconer is not good, since it does not make clear that the last part ("but the true reason was his ambition to be lord of all") is also said by Aristobulus - or at least according to Strabo....

Hi Karen,the passage is Strabo 16.1.11 (C 741): "(...)Now Alexander alleged as cause of the war, Aristobulus says, that the Arabians were the only people on earth who did not send ambassadors to him, but in truth was reaching out to be lord of all (...)". (the complete text of Strabo is on...

well, actually I didn't mean to go that far on the emulation thing, Alexander certainly did that (i think).as for the Hammond article, that's why I said I don't know whether there were other reasons for it than Al's death, but actually I guess there were, because otherwise the article wouldn't have ...

Hi Karen and others involved,I don't think i've got a lot to offer on the character traits themselves right now, I haven't really thought about that a lot, but I'd like to make a few other points.-without reopening the megalomania debate, I think there's a quite important source for Alexander's unst...

i don't have the time to go very deep into this, but from Diodorus XIX 22.1 it is clear that in 317 Persepolis was still functionning as capital of Persis.As for the burning of the palace, why not consider the possibility that Alexander simply was so drunk that he didn't realise what he did, as with...

-in the time of Philip and Alexander warfare equally stopped during the winter-the destruction of Thebes was not necessary and, like Hiroshima and Nagasaki, it certainly is not the right way to end a war. The point is, actually, that wars simply shouldn't start. And although Alexander did not start ...

from http://hometown.aol.co.uk/bobbbennett/defeat.htm: had had high ambitions when he entered Aegean waters he had not sailed since he left Macedon with the army of Alexander the Great. Ambitions made clear enough by his intrigues with the greatest remaining member of the Macedonian royal line. Cleo...

this has been coming up too much and I really don't feel like having the same dicussion over and over again, so i'll just limit myself to a few points.-strictly historically Alexander was great because what he did changed the world to a great extent. He simply is one of those people who clearly prov...

Hi Linda,i'm afraid you did not really succeed in taking it back to Alexander, because my reply to your argument is: what with all those saints of christianty? In some cases they are almost worshipped as gods in their own right. But, of course, a lot depends on how strict one is concerning the theol...

Hi Ruth,Karl is absolutely right about the death of Cleopatra, which - if i remeber correctly this time - is described in Diodorus XX.37. As for Perdikkas marrying her or not, I'm not sure it was that easy. The way I see it he married Nikaia because he needed Antipatros' military support, in order t...

I cannot really add more to this discussion as you two clearly are better informed on this aspect of history, but to be honest, i just don't think these religions (and all others) are as different as their practitioners would have it.regards,abm

There were of course a lot of historians at other courts who had no reason whatsoever to fear Kassandros.Sorry for taking you too literal on the end of religion. The death of paganism seems more like a late fourth century AD phenomenon to me though, so I would be very careful in linking it with AtG,...

Hi Linda,don't worry, I don't feel anthing about Kassandros: I only think about him :-). And I still think stories like the one you mentioned are propaganda. It is simply inconceivable that Kassandros would ever have become a general if it had taken him that long to kill a boar. Not a single soldier...