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Interesting points, krhuck. To pick up on an earlier point in this thread about Hellenistic finds in India and Africa, these would seem to be trading points as it is reputed that St Thomas went to the west coast of India in the 1st cent. AD. Now he would have been unlikely to go there unless there w...

Maybe you're right. It seems odd that so much prominence is given to the figure on the left. Perhaps the figure on the right is a divine helper.

Ok, no idea why that picture disappeared

I have been reading The Twin Soul of Alexander by Lawrence M. Scheier (a truly dreadful novel to be avoided at all costs), but on the front is the Pella deer hunt mosaic. http://www.macedonian-heritage.gr/HellenicMacedonia/media/original/b1233a.jpg Traditionally Alexander is said to be the figure on...

This has been discussed here several times before. The general consensus amongst historian appears to be that Justin wouldn't have bothered to invent a baby that didn't exist, and that it was likely to have been a boy as a girl might not have warranted a mention. The child died about 18 months after...

Yes, Delphi, of course perched up on the hillside, and the Argive Plain is typical - a ring of hill forts eying each other over the fertile (and perhaps waterlogged) plain - Argos, Mycenae, Midea and Tiryns. The exception is Tiryns, which kept getting flooded! http://ic.pics.livejournal.com/kizzikat...

I haven't been able to find a date for the rebuilding of the walls at Mycenae, but I think the Argives might have had a hand in it. They destroyed Mycenae and Tiryns in 468 BC, and if they allowed Pyrrhos' troops to raid the tombs at Mycenae (or weren't in a position to prevent it) approx. 272 BC, t...

Ah, that's interesting about Pyrrhus. It might partly explain the rebuilding of part of the walls at Mycencae in the Hellenistic period. I think there was a new tower built in the western wall.

She does have a point to some extent as Alexander's influence on Indian history was not as great as it was on other parts of the world.

David Adams did a series of documentaries about Alexander in this region https://www.youtube.com/user/davidadamsfilms and visited these people. To be honest, I can't remember what his conclusion about the origin of these people was. See this page here http://pothos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=...

Noman has deleted the original post, but this was the link https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ZABSepHO1FMC&pg=PA603&lpg=PA603&dq=Subhuti+of+Paropamisdae&source=bl&ots=GjE_fNppR6&sig=6LHc_JSB7DXO5amCVPXAhdeKfOM&hl=en&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Subhuti%20of%2...

Then in a few years, just after the triumphant reconquest of Egypt, the Persian monarchy is overthrown by a bunch of Ionians from a kingdom nobody in the centre of the empire has ever heard of. There wasn't a precedent to deal with that, in the way that the Romans were used to a general marching on...

Pauline asked me to post this picture of a recently reconstructed bath for a Mycenean queen at Knossos (from this Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/Knossoss/?fref=nf ). 18034373_1705283719768716_3423661884344775942_n.jpg This is the only known similar one from Nestor's palace at Pylos. 1383146_...

A little far from my country of residence... Well, in theory I will be giving a paper on "Darius III and the Crisis of Achaemenid Ideology" in Tartu in June http://caemc.ut.ee/icaem2017 I don't see any papers on Alexander in the program though ... mine is on how the Persians and Egyptians...

Interesting food for thought. How much did Philip's court differ from that of his predecessors? What innovations did he make, what new roles did he create? Alexander's court must have been heavily influenced by the logistical needs of the expedition, and subsequently by taking on the Persian civil s...