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Very interesting study! I found 'Alexander' very similar indeed to the Alexander of the Pompei's mosaic: the same nose, the same large eye, but obviously younger!

There is also an Italian translation of Negrete's book :'Alessandro e l'aquila di Roma'. I read it, but it's useless for a strategic comparison between Alexander and the Romans. I found it definitely boring.

The first obstacle to this supposition is the stonework: the experts say the stone doesn't come from Egypt, but from Istria (a peninsula near Venice). Therefore it may be a copy from a Macedonian original. The real question is why there is such a copy in St. Mark at Venice.

My little guide book to Uffizi Museum writes this note about the head: "The bust, the lower half of the neck with the locks covering the nape, the hair on the left of the face, and the front nose are all restored with a fine-grained grey marble during the Renaissance.

Very beautiful head, perhaps the most moving I ever saw. But Alexander went in Athens with Antipater (Justin 9, 4, 5, not Parmenion) and Alkimachos (Hypereides, frg.B 19, 2 Burtt = 77 Jensen): Heckel s.v. Antipatros and Alkimachos.

Thank you Alexias for your comment. I think the opposite opinions expressed by Lucian and Arrian for or against the deification of Hephaistion by Alexander were raised by the recent deification of Antinous by Hadrian, but in fact weren't directed explicitly against the emperor. It was rather a retho...

Thank you a lot, Alexias! You have done a big work, and it seems to me quite well translated. Unfortunately (as I have foreseen) I had to put in too many Greek words that aren't all well written, but never mind! Only a thing I 'd correct: the last quote of Aristotle is "don't the friends want f...

Thank you, Alexias, Yes, of course, I'll be glad if you put here the translation! I pondered each word I wrote, but I'm afraid it is hard to understand, because I used so many Greek words; but it was necessary.

I wrote a paper on Hephaestion's worship and uploaded it in Academia.edu. The title of my paper is 'Il culto di Efestione', by Alina Veneri. I hope it would be a tribute in the 2348 year from his death.

Hi, system 1988!
I agree totally with Dr Kottaridi. Thank you for posting this paper!

I disagree of course with the thesis of R. A. Gabriel!

If you wouldn't associate the word 'feminine' with Alexander, certainly you don't know the book, The Madness of Alexander the Great and the Myth of Military Genius, by R. A. Gabriel!

Hi Alexias, I agree with you, but I don't find the button!

According to F. Coarelli, ( 'Lisippo e la <turma> di Alessandro', in Alessandro Magno e l'Oriente, Milano 2023, Edizioni Electa per MANN. pp.95-99) there is no doubt till now that the little group was a replica (very smaller) of one of the horsemen Lysippus made in Dion for Alexander. And even this ...

As far as I know, the major objection to the identification of the horseman with Alexander is this: why Lysippus placed Alexander among the twenty five statues of his Companions, if they were all dead and only Alexander was still alive? Therefore we have two possibilities:1) this group represents Al...