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by sean_m
Mon Oct 30, 2023 8:09 pm
Forum: Book reviews
Topic: Fred Naiden's Life of Alexander
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Views: 3443

Fred Naiden's Life of Alexander

The new issue of Mouseion reminds me that Fred Naiden published a life of Alexander with the title Soldier, Priest, and God in 2019. I have not read it in full but Fred Naiden is a good scholar. The chapter on geography seemed to have the idea that Alexander had not memorized all the itineraries of ...
by sean_m
Sun Sep 24, 2023 11:52 pm
Forum: Book reviews
Topic: Robin Lane Fox Alexander the great
Replies: 6
Views: 3004

Re: Robin Lane Fox Alexander the great

Thanks for this. Gosh, it is a long, long time since I read this (1980s I think), but I do remember that it was full of detail. I wonder though whether any of it is now out of date, not the big things but interpretations and further details that were not known then. If its the book by Robin Lane Fo...
by sean_m
Wed Apr 13, 2022 2:36 am
Forum: The Diadochi
Topic: New Open-Access Article on Pydna
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Views: 10109

New Open-Access Article on Pydna

https://grbs.library.duke.edu/article/view/16636/7487 "Reconstructing the Battle of Pydna" by Paul Johstono, Michael J. Taylor The reported topography of the battle (168 B.C.) places it near Kitros, and the maneuvers described suggest hasty deployment by both sides, an unintended ‘meeting ...
by sean_m
Fri Feb 18, 2022 6:27 pm
Forum: Book reviews
Topic: Kathleen Toohey
Replies: 2
Views: 5426

Re: Kathleen Toohey

Yes, if you are tired of the attacks on strawmen and 'pretty pictures' on social media, the academia.edu chats on her thesis are great places to geek out!
by sean_m
Wed Dec 22, 2021 4:47 pm
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: A B Bosworth: Conquest and Empire
Replies: 11
Views: 11318

Re: A B Bosworth: Conquest and Empire

Now I want to see a story inspired by a western where one of Alexander's veterans in the mountains of Upper Macedonia is the force of destruction which local crooks accidentally get in the way of. Last time I started to read Arrian's Anabasis , I was stuck and horrified by his deletion of the murder...
by sean_m
Tue Dec 21, 2021 11:56 pm
Forum: 'Off-topic' forum
Topic: Eugene Borza
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Views: 6582

Eugene Borza

I am told that Eugene Borza, the scholar of Argead Macedonia, has died at the age of 86. There is a tribute in the journal Karanos https://revistes.uab.cat/karanos/article/view/83/81
by sean_m
Sat Jun 12, 2021 6:04 pm
Forum: Art and Culture
Topic: A poem to roses- New findings in Aegae
Replies: 2
Views: 9671

Re: A poem to roses- New findings in Aegae

Thank you system_1988

That is a good poem for the time of Philip V (and for those of us who are stuck in life!)
by sean_m
Sat Jun 12, 2021 6:04 pm
Forum: Philip and Alexander's predecessors
Topic: R. Taylor, The Macedonian Phalanx (2020)
Replies: 1
Views: 11392

R. Taylor, The Macedonian Phalanx (2020)

I have a review of Richard Taylor's "The Macedonian Phalanx" up https://bookandsword.com/2021/06/12/rev ... n-phalanx/
by sean_m
Wed Feb 10, 2021 7:27 pm
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: what is the origin of this proverb
Replies: 11
Views: 55628

Re: what is the origin of this proverb

All the peoples of Iran are great and creative and kind, and I don't know anyone who had to fight them who said they were not tough, but ...
Persian wrote: Tue Feb 02, 2021 7:59 amPersians are not lambs. Persians united 44% of world population under one government.
according to an anonymous Wikipedia editor in 2013.
by sean_m
Fri Jan 15, 2021 9:39 pm
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: The inscription of Bahariya temple
Replies: 4
Views: 6006

Re: The inscription of Bahariya temple

Happy New Year! I'm glad to recommend this paper by Francisco Bosch-Puche: 'L' "autel" du temple d'Alexandre à Bahariya retrouvé ', BIFAO 108 (2008), pp. 29-44.(I found it in Academia.edu). The author has found again an altar and a stele of a temple excavated in 1938 in Bahariya, but misl...
by sean_m
Fri Jan 15, 2021 9:30 pm
Forum: The Diadochi
Topic: New book on Ptolemaic armies
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Views: 16873

New book on Ptolemaic armies

Spreading an understanding of Hellenistic armies as armies (versus the narrative drawn from pro-Roman writers and modern orient stereotypes that they were just Alexander's army but bloated and passive) is like trying to get a 40er to turn about or thousands of cavalry to halt a charge. There is a ne...
by sean_m
Sun Jan 03, 2021 8:29 am
Forum: 'Off-topic' forum
Topic: HAPPY CHRISTMAS!
Replies: 2
Views: 9170

Re: HAPPY CHRISTMAS!

you too A. As I said elsewhere, I think we need to treat our problems as the structural problems which require long-term solutions which they are. None of them is going to shrivel up when a new invention or a new leader or a new year arrives. Alexander did not march to the Indus in a year!
by sean_m
Thu Nov 26, 2020 10:05 pm
Forum: Alexander's contemporaries
Topic: Three books on the Achaemenids
Replies: 3
Views: 14679

Re: Three books on the Achaemenids

Glad to see Brosius's book. I use her smaller one, The Persians , in my ANE class. Will be sure to put the new one on order. But what do you mean she "quit" the ancient racket? Last time we talked, she was about to take early retirement from the University of Toronto and look for somethin...
by sean_m
Fri Nov 20, 2020 7:20 pm
Forum: Art and Culture
Topic: Cavalry battle from Lycia
Replies: 2
Views: 8367

Re: Cavalry battle from Lycia

You are welcome! A chapter in Lâtife Summerer and Alexander von Kienlin's book The return of colours (2010) talks about possible connections between these painted tombs and the painted tombs in Tuscany in the same period. Refugees from Phocaea sailed west to Italy.
by sean_m
Tue Nov 17, 2020 6:41 am
Forum: Art and Culture
Topic: Cavalry battle from Lycia
Replies: 2
Views: 8367

Cavalry battle from Lycia

Pothosians will know the beautiful painted tombs from Macedonia around Alexander's time. As usual, the Persians got there first. There is one colour photo of the battle scene from the Karaburun II tumulus in Lycia at https://www.cabinet.ox.ac.uk/karaburun-tumulus-ii-early-5th-century-bc-1#/media=598...