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by Alexias
Mon Mar 18, 2024 10:19 pm
Forum: Alexander Sources
Topic: Athenaeus - Deipnosophists Book XV
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Athenaeus - Deipnosophists Book XV

Athenaeus - Deipnosophists Book XV Book XV. 683 b First, roses which Midas of Odonia, when he left his realm in Asia, grew in the Emathian* glebes, roses ever luxuriant with sixty petals all round. * Emathia, poetic name of Macedonia. Book XV 684 e A flower called ambrosia is recorded by Carystius ...
by Alexias
Mon Mar 18, 2024 10:18 pm
Forum: Alexander Sources
Topic: Athenaeus - Deipnosophists Book XIV
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Athenaeus - Deipnosophists Book XIV

Athenaeus - Deipnosophists Book XIV Book XIV. 614 d - 615 a Hippolochus of Macedon, again, in his Letter to Lynceus mentions as jesters Mandrogenes and Straton of Athens. For at Athens there was an abundance of these clever gentry. At any rate, in the temple of Heracles, in the deme Diomeia, they w...
by Alexias
Sun Mar 17, 2024 10:26 pm
Forum: Alexander Sources
Topic: Athenaeus - Deipnosophists Book XIIIb
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Athenaeus - Deipnosophists Book XIIIb

Athenaeus - Deipnosophists Book XIIIb Book XIII. 594 d – 596 b Harpalus, the Macedonian who plundered large sums from Alexander’s funds and then sought refuge in Athens, fell in love with Pythionice and squandered a great deal on her, though she was a courtesan; and when she died he erected a monum...
by Alexias
Sun Mar 17, 2024 10:23 pm
Forum: Alexander Sources
Topic: Athenaeus - Deipnosophists Book XIIIa
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Athenaeus - Deipnosophists Book XIIIa

Athenaeus - Deipnosophists Book XIIIa Book XIII 555 a The comic poet Antiphanes, friend Timocrates, was once reading one of his plays to King Alexander, who, however, made it plain that he did not altogether like it. “No wonder, sire,” the poet said; “for the man who likes this play of mine must ha...
by Alexias
Sun Mar 17, 2024 4:01 pm
Forum: Book reviews
Topic: Alexander the Great: A New History
Replies: 1
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Alexander the Great: A New History

Alexander the Great: A New History edited by Waldemar Heckel and Lawrence A. Tritle This book was originally intended as a quasi-response to Oliver Stone's 2004 film 'Alexander' but it wasn't published until 2009. It is a broad introduction to the study of Alexander, but it is not a book for beginne...
by Alexias
Sun Mar 17, 2024 3:27 pm
Forum: Alexander Sources
Topic: Athenaeus - Deipnosophists Book XII
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Athenaeus - Deipnosophists Book XII

Athenaeus - Deipnosophists Book XII Book XII. 513 e – 515 a (On the Persians.) The first men in history to become notorious for luxurious living were the Persians, whose kings wintered in Susa and summered in Ecbatana. (Now Susa was so called, according to Aristobulus and Chares, because of the bea...
by Alexias
Sun Mar 17, 2024 3:23 pm
Forum: Alexander Sources
Topic: Athenaeus - Deipnosophists Book XI
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Athenaeus - Deipnosophists Book XI

Athenaeus - Deipnosophists Book XI Note: Book XI starts with sections 459 through 466, jumps to sections 781 through 784, and then returns to section 466. Book XI. 781 f Parmenion, summing up the booty taken from the Persians, in his Letters to Alexander, says: “Gold cups, weight seventy-three Baby...
by Alexias
Sun Mar 17, 2024 2:43 pm
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: Cheronea, a question
Replies: 7
Views: 103

Re: Cheronea, a question

I've merged the posts into two separate topics, basically the Sacred Band and the Macedonian pyre.
by Alexias
Sun Mar 17, 2024 9:38 am
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: Cheronea, a question
Replies: 7
Views: 103

Re: Cheronea, a question

I have made a start on merging some of the posts together. I will get back to it in a bit. In the meantime, instead of starting a 'new topic'for each photo, you could 'post reply' to one of your topics to group the photos together,
by Alexias
Sat Mar 16, 2024 9:26 pm
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: Cheronea, a question
Replies: 7
Views: 103

Re: Cheronea, a question

I can certainly have a try to merge some of the posts together. It will have to be tomorrow though.
by Alexias
Sat Mar 16, 2024 8:39 pm
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: Cheronea, a question
Replies: 7
Views: 103

Re: Cheronea, a question

Hi , i would like to ask Alexias and the other pothosians ,to continue posting the exhibits or has it become tiresome as a topic ? It will be followed by findings of the Macedonian funeral pyre, Macedonian and Theban weapons,a fresco from a Macedonian tomb unknown to many of us , as well some of th...
by Alexias
Thu Mar 14, 2024 8:25 pm
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: Cheronea , exhibition Athens
Replies: 12
Views: 114

Re: Cheronea 3 Exhibition , Athens

Thank you for the photos, Pauline, and I hope you enjoyed the exhibition. Tiny question. I know we've had various discussions here https://pothos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6943 and here principally https://pothos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2841 about whether Alexander led the cavalry or the phalanx a...
by Alexias
Tue Mar 12, 2024 9:40 pm
Forum: Alexander Sources
Topic: Athenaeus - Deipnosophists Book X
Replies: 0
Views: 40

Athenaeus - Deipnosophists Book X

Athenaeus - Deipnosophists Book X Book X. 423 c When, then, a large cup had been given Ulpian said: “Fill your ladle, slave, with stronger wine and pour it into my cup; not as the comic poet Antiphanes has it, who says in The Twins*: ‘He took and brought the big cup to me, and I made him pour in un...
by Alexias
Tue Mar 12, 2024 8:55 pm
Forum: Alexander Sources
Topic: Athenaeus - Deipnosophists Book IX
Replies: 0
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Athenaeus - Deipnosophists Book IX

Athenaeus - Deipnosophists Book IX Book IX. 393 b - c The middle syllable of the name for quail is prolonged in Attic Greek, just as in doidyka (pestle) and in keryka (herald); so Demetrius Ixion states in his treatise On the Alexandrian Dialect. But Aristophanes made it short in The Peace, for the...
by Alexias
Tue Mar 12, 2024 8:51 pm
Forum: Alexander Sources
Topic: Athenaeus - Deipnosophists Book VIII
Replies: 0
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Athenaeus - Deipnosophists Book VIII

Athenaeus - Deipnosophists Book VIII Book VIII. 334 a - b I know that Phylarchus also speaks somewhere of large fish, and green figs sent to them, by Patroclus, Ptolemy’s general, to King Antigonus by way of hinting what would happen to him, just as the Scythians did to Darius when he was invading ...