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by NickWelman
Sun Feb 10, 2002 11:17 pm
Forum: Art and Culture
Topic: Alexander the Great costume
Replies: 5
Views: 5924

Re: Alexander the Great costume

Look at this one:
http://www.pothos.co.uk/images/pmosaic2.gif
This is Alexander and - supposedly - his friend Craterus on a lion hunt. Look at the bright side: it is cheap and certainly not very time consuming.
Regards -
Nick
by NickWelman
Fri Feb 08, 2002 11:05 pm
Forum: Book reviews
Topic: Book Reveiw page
Replies: 2
Views: 4500

Re: Book Reveiw page

Hi there -
Sikander and Halil are doing the book reviews. I am waiting to see something appearing here too!
Regards -
Nick
by NickWelman
Wed Feb 06, 2002 8:40 am
Forum: Alexander the Great in the Media
Topic: Re: Alexander's movie
Replies: 26
Views: 20914

Re: Archaeological evidence

Dear Beth - I visited Taxila and the Taxila Archeological Museum in 1999. I did not notice anything (art, tools, inscriptions) dating back to the Alexander era. The old city was a curly Indian town when Alexander arrived. It began to florish during the Hellenistic era, when an entirely new city was ...
by NickWelman
Mon Feb 04, 2002 12:05 pm
Forum: Alexander the Great in the Media
Topic: Re: Alexander's movie
Replies: 26
Views: 20914

Re: Peritas' source

Yes, great. Better than the one that usually shows up in the search engines.
Thanks,
Nick
by NickWelman
Mon Feb 04, 2002 8:01 am
Forum: Alexander the Great in the Media
Topic: Re: Alexander's movie
Replies: 26
Views: 20914

Re: Peritas' source

Thank you, Frederico. I checked Plutarch and I am happy we found it. What I noticed now is that the cyber text of Plutarch on e-Classics is abbreviated. Peritas is not in there. Maybe I am ignorant, but I have always asumed that the cyber texts of our classical sources on the web were integral trans...
by NickWelman
Mon Feb 04, 2002 7:57 am
Forum: Alexander the Great in the Media
Topic: Re: Alexander's movie
Replies: 26
Views: 20914

Re: The Palace of Porus

Dear dr. Pal -
And what about this city called "Pimprama" - it is mentioned in the Romances (Pseudo-Callisthenes tradition) as Porus' capital...
Is there any clue to the origin of this name?
Regards -
Nick