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Paralus wrote:The death of a conqueror does not inspire much of anything within me I'm afraid...

BOO!

It's Alexander! ...And he was much more than a simple conqueror

I COUNTER your BOO! Consider it neutralised.

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The death of a conqueror does not inspire much of anything within me I'm afraid... BOO! :D It's Alexander ! ...And he was much more than a simple conqueror :wink: True. A robber, too, and a murderer. An alcoholic. An incompetent administrator and a failed empire builder. Not to mention a delusional...

Marcus and Amyntoros: thank you both so much! This definitely helps.

Can anyone tell me where the story of Dinocrates wanting to carve Alexander (or a godlike figure that mirrored Alexander) on the face of Mount Athos appears? Supposedly this took place before the building of Alexandria in Egypt and Alexander rejected the idea. I have read this in a number of online ...

Paralus wrote:The death of a conqueror does not inspire much of anything within me I'm afraid...

BOO!

It's Alexander! ...And he was much more than a simple conqueror

I'm working on a project about Alexander, and more specifically his Policy of Fusion. While I've found a bunch of examples of this--his introduction of proskynesis, the batch marriages, the Successors, etc.--but I'm finding it hard to get a grasp on the bigger picture. :? If anyone can give me some...

It has always been a dream of mine to construct a linothorax based off the one Alexander wears in the famous Alexander Mosaic from Pompeii. The first linothorax I made was only loosely based off Alexander's and mostly because of monetary reasons. I have included an image of the first linothorax I ma...

I see Roxanne's role more as a Persian queen than a Macedonian one. Doesn't Plutarch mention something about the marriage as a means to please Alexander's Persian subjects? Plutarch Alex. 47.7-8: [7] His marriage to Roxana, whom he saw in her youthful beauty taking part in a dance at a banquet, was...

Due to the lack of mentions of Roxana, and the loads of references we have to Olympias (relatively speaking), when we figure in the total number of times Alexander actually dealt with Roxana, exactly how important was she? What was her role? Moreover, if her role as the queen to a Macedonian king w...

Would Roxane even have spoken Persian, or did the Sogdians have a different language? Darius's daughters were taught Greek while they remained at Susa, so it is likely Roxane was taught Greek, probably by Barsine who, although Persian, was the widow of two Greeks. Even if she was taught Greek, ther...

Paul Doherty?

There were many account that said Alexander fell 'in love' with Roxana at first sight (Arrian 4.19; Plutarch Alex. 47.7; Curtius 8.4.25). Although Plutarch and Curtius disagree as to how they were first introduced, and Arrian's love story comes from "the men who served in Alexander's army,"...

Alexander hated cats...they don't have a subservient bone in their little fluffy bodies. :D Cats, churches, and very small rocks! :D Oh, lord, that reminds me...I was puttering around and had the TV on the History (and I use that term quite loosely) Channel. I think it was some show on ancient alie...

I thought that might be the case, but then the thorax is only the second line of defence, the shield being the first for the hoplite and maybe the length of his sarissa for the phalangite. I should think that the linothorax increased in importance with the advent of sarissai, certainly I know of ma...

Interesting, setting aside the report's chronological gaff; 3rd century BC, the armour is 5th to first and Alexander very definitely 4th only. Media distortion, eh? The bow looked fairly weak, though the arrow loosed at your chest was at point blank range has it been tested against the stronger com...