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sikander wrote: ↑Sun Apr 13, 2025 11:19 pmOh dear.....

That pretty accurately sums it up, I think. LOLOL

Jonathan Hall has a very interesting (and think probably correct) supposition that Tomb II was actually begun for ALEXANDER shortly after his death, then construction halted when Ptolemy stole the body. It was repurposed by Kassandros so he didn't have to pay for a new one, in order to bury Arrhidai...

This is pretty old. It was made and then never released until, apparently, recently. I looked in vain for a way to get it not long after it came out. I figured it would be quite bad, from what I could see. The fact Sam Heughan is in it is no doubt why it ever saw the light of day.

Interesting, as I JUST downloaded an article by him about Kalanos as a probable Buddhist. Didn't do more than skim it, but I'm intrigued.

All very very interesting. Thanks, folks!

Thanks, Alexias.

The Getty head is, if not an outright forgery, then surely idealized into uselessness as a portrait. Nor is it labeled as Hephaistion. I wish we knew more about the Prado Bronze. It's now IDed as Demetrios P., although when I compare it to other Demetrios portraits, I don't see it as all that simila...

FWIW, I agree on the idea that a later tomb may have incorporated earlier tombs, which might point to a family site, not unlike the Lyson and Kallikles tomb in Macedonia proper. Tomb reuse and/or reincorporation was hardly uncommon. And I'd bet on a time after Kassandros's death, and possibly even a...

Things moved too fast. By the time Krateros heard ATG was dead, Perdikkas had already worked out a settlement back in Babylon. I think Krateros decided to throw in his lot with Antipatros. But that's some of what I'll be looking at in the book, yes.

It would be very interesting to know if Hephaestion was influential in Alexander changing his mind about who was to blame in the Eumenes' quarrel about the accommodation. But even if he didn't, people were afraid of Hephaestion (Eumenes and Apollodorus, and probably other satraps). Did he misuse hi...

There is, actually, evidence for Hephaistion and Eumenes getting into it in Plutrach's Life of Eumenes. Problem seems to be that Eumenes didn't get along with several people--Antipatros too. Hephaistion and Eumenes fought twice: once in Susa and again later in Ekbatana. Arrian also alludes to the qu...

And another poorly done internet article that doesn't cite a single (actual) expert on Hephaistion. Where do these people come from?

As an expert on Hephaistion, the person's research is missing a bunch of important material on Hephaistion. It's a bit spotty. (Can't find the author's name on the article.) She/He also seems to have missed a very long article "The Mourning of Alexander" in Syllecta Classica. It's neither ...

Peter was a good egg. And the last of that generation to go. His final work, on Herodotus, is being edited by a colleague for eventual publication, I'm pleased to say. Even if I didn't always agree with him (does any scholar ever always agree with another? LOL), I respected him a good deal. He also ...

There are several things in this article that are directly out of my dissertation (albeit not cited)...including some things I've since changed my mind about. Ha. Not sure if I've mentioned it here, but I am working on a monograph about both Hephaistion and Krateros. Not sure when it will be out, mi...