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by sean_m
Sun Mar 29, 2015 7:55 pm
Forum: 'Off-topic' forum
Topic: the rules of evidence
Replies: 11
Views: 3460

Re: the rules of evidence

Yes, we must all refrain from colloquialisms not readily accessible to those for whom English is not a first language. Something I'm often guilty of but in no way alone in that 'sin'. It is well to remember that many who visit are not native English speakers and references to Rumpole and other such...
by sean_m
Sat Mar 28, 2015 8:11 pm
Forum: 'Off-topic' forum
Topic: What Happened To Pothos?
Replies: 24
Views: 9740

Re: What Happened To Pothos?

This is a hard one. I would certainly say that the atmosphere has not been very inviting, but I am too tired to juggle real-world identities, handles on this forum, and my memory of past discussions in that other place. As one of the younger members it is not my place to lecture either! I will say t...
by sean_m
Fri Mar 27, 2015 7:56 pm
Forum: Alexander's contemporaries
Topic: Mazaeus
Replies: 2
Views: 4283

Re: Mazaeus

Enticed by the thread in the off-topic forum "What happened to Pothos?" I decided to start a new topic in the main part of the forum hoping for it to become a long and interesting discussion. As evident from the subject, this topic about Mazaeus. I hope it is considered close enough to Al...
by sean_m
Tue Feb 17, 2015 9:04 am
Forum: 'Off-topic' forum
Topic: Cherefanes Corp.
Replies: 9
Views: 4141

Re: Cherefanes Corp.

Thank you Pauline. I think that there is plenty of archaeological and epigraphic news from Greece to keep us busy while we wait for a scientific publication of other sites!
by sean_m
Mon Jan 26, 2015 7:54 pm
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: The Sphinxes Guarding the Lion Tomb Entrance at Amphipolis
Replies: 1585
Views: 542213

Re: The Sphinxes Guarding the Lion Tomb Entrance at Amphipolis

Also, I think that everyone on this forum has seen many occasions where startling news about archaeology in a press release was followed by a disappointing journal article (either one which made modest claims, or one which left us wondering how it got past peer review). In a world where we need the ...
by sean_m
Tue Jan 20, 2015 6:15 pm
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: The skeleton...
Replies: 11
Views: 5296

Re: The skeleton...

Thanks again system_1988. It is comforting to read archaeologists saying "these results are preliminary and we want to run more tests." I think that people will be wondering about this site for many years.
by sean_m
Mon Jan 19, 2015 8:24 pm
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: The skeleton...
Replies: 11
Views: 5296

Re: The skeleton...

Thank you very much. I cannot read modern Greek. The physical anthropologists who I have read or heard say that if someone died between the ages of say 15 and 60, it is very hard to estimate age at death from the skeleton. So when the finds are published I am sure there will be lively debate and lot...
by sean_m
Sun Dec 28, 2014 3:25 am
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: Online Resources on Southwest Asia
Replies: 3
Views: 2554

Re: Online Resources on Southwest Asia

Thanks system_1988. I really think that putting sources and grammars online is important ... reading a translation or looking up a word in a dictionary does not make someone an expert, but it makes them know more than they did before.

Best wishes to everyone for the holidays.
by sean_m
Sat Dec 06, 2014 8:12 am
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: Online Resources on Southwest Asia
Replies: 3
Views: 2554

Online Resources on Southwest Asia

http://www.aakkl.helsinki.fi/melammu/links/linkstexts.php Quite a few things in Alexander's life make more sense once you have studied the lands he conquered, but it can be hard to get a background in the later unless you happen to live close to a university which still has some orientalists. Lots o...
by sean_m
Sat Nov 29, 2014 4:30 pm
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: Cleitarchus (and others?) in Diodorus
Replies: 24
Views: 8763

Re: Cleitarchus (and others?) in Diodorus

Yes, he most definitely continued his practice of archons / consuls and, as such, was still using the 'chronicle' or annals of such offices. Unlike other books he uses a source here that did not follow those chronological way points. This was a winter to winter system a la Thucydides. Diodorus' att...
by sean_m
Sat Nov 29, 2014 8:49 am
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: Cleitarchus (and others?) in Diodorus
Replies: 24
Views: 8763

Re: Cleitarchus (and others?) in Diodorus

Book 17 does not have many "in this year ..." notes at the start or end of sections, but other books do, and scholars who read such notes in Tacitus or the received text of Xenophon's Hellenica usually suggest that they came from a chronicle. A well-equipped Hellenistic scholar like Diodo...
by sean_m
Fri Nov 28, 2014 3:11 pm
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: Cleitarchus (and others?) in Diodorus
Replies: 24
Views: 8763

Re: Cleitarchus (and others?) in Diodorus

The main trouble is that not just Diodoros, but also Justin/Trogus and even Plutarch fail to retail the story, and they all love scandal and even Arrian who points up homeric parallels ignores this (pace Bosworth he definitely knew Kleitarchos' account and damns him without naming him in several pa...
by sean_m
Thu Nov 27, 2014 5:35 pm
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: Cleitarchus (and others?) in Diodorus
Replies: 24
Views: 8763

Re: Cleitarchus (and others?) in Diodorus

Since Diodoros does not give the Homeric drag race at Gaza, it is unlikely this was in Kleitarchos, Diodoros does not shun such fantasies. Nor does the act fit with the picture of a decline into Oriental tyranny after the death of Dareios which is certainly the picture in Metz, Curtius and Justin, ...
by sean_m
Tue Nov 25, 2014 8:29 am
Forum: 'Off-topic' forum
Topic: New Member Welcomes and Introductions
Replies: 7
Views: 3900

Re: Conspiracy against Philotas By Waldemar Heckel

Glad to see you both. With some apprehension, I will try to correct some typos in my last post and see if it is kicked back into moderation.
by sean_m
Mon Nov 24, 2014 6:27 pm
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: Cleitarchus (and others?) in Diodorus
Replies: 24
Views: 8763

Re: Cleitarchus (and others?) in Diodorus

No, would be a short answer! But to treat your suggestion with the respect it deserves; no, IMHO, Diodoros does seem to choose a single source for the periods into which he chooses to divide his work, and to a certain extent the boundaries of these sources condition his book boundaries. It would, h...