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Personally, I think the tilt of Alexander’s head was part of his very careful public image. It may have been a trait he acquired to make himself look more vulnerable, less threatening and, if he did it when younger, a way of deflecting his elders’ anger if he was in trouble. He was obviously fully a...

John Romer put forward the theory that the tilt was caused by Alexander being short and a little deaf, so that he had to strain upwards to hear what people were saying!

No, not really sanguine, just a biased writer.

I think, Marcus, that there is a whole world out there awaiting your discovery! This is by no means the first vampire story Alexander has appeared in. He has appeared in Japanese manga comics (anime cartoons too, I think), demon stories, AU stories (alternative universe where history is deliberately...

Jaw-dropping. I am going to save the pictures at any rate!

Hello everybody. I am doing a small essay about him and I will like to know if his vision includes equality among all people. I do think so, but I'm not really sure and I don't want to write nonsenses; therefore, how do you define this particulary aspect? Was Alexander, a king, equal with his subje...

jan wrote:My postscript:

I did go to Mesa, had my 53,538 words validated, and my first draft is officially in the hands of the NaNoWriMo group.

May I say well done on reaching the 50,000 words. I've failed dismally. Hope to see your book in print one day.

Thank you! that is really helpful. So how did Alexander communicate with the various Persians he took under his wing - in Greek, presumably? My question was partly sparked off by reading about the death of Cleitus and how A called to his Hypaspists "in his native Macedonian" - implying th...

I may be wrong, but I think there is some debate about whether ancient Macedonian was derived from Greek or not, but it would have been the language of the peasants. It was the language Alexander reverted to in times of stress eg the death of Cleitus. The aristocrats' language, and legal or business...

I have been absent for awhile and just posted a reply about Pella and the Macedonian tombs but it only went into my drafts. Are they reveiwed before posting? Or is there a way of getting it out of the drafts and posted as a reply on the subject? Presumably you hit Save instead of Submit. I've just ...

A friend recently suggested that I read the above speech. In summary, Timarchus and Demosthenes charged Aeschines with treason for his partiality towards Philip on the occasion of the second Athenian embassy (346 BC) to Pella to ratify the peace agreed by the same envoys in the preceding year. Aesch...

The issue though is accessibility, which was the Macedonians' gripe about Alexander's Persianisation. The Macedonian nobility would have regarded Alexander as 'first among equals' rather than better than them. There is a story, told about Philip and Hadrian, that an old woman approached them to hear...

Er, on a slightly more dispassionate note, it seems that Arrhidaeus has been forgotten about. It seems to be generally assumed that he was about Alexander's age and at Alexander's accession that he was already impaired mentally and physically. Yet as a boy (not a child it would seem, so I'm guessing...

I also suspect that it is no coincidence that the so-called "Persianising" began just after Bagoas joined Alexander's retinue. It is likely on circumstantial grounds that Bagoas was the prime mover of this trend in Alexander's behaviour - hardly an inconsequential matter. Did not Artabazu...