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- Sun May 19, 2024 5:20 am
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Alexander's Last Days: Reconstruction
- Replies: 4
- Views: 322
Re: Alexander's Last Days: Reconstruction
All of this assumes the Ephimerides were real ... which is actually disputed from Badian forward, for some very good reasons, just as the so-called "last plans" may have been half Peridkkas' fabrication. There may have *been* ephimerides, at least while ATG was in Babylon (following ancien...
- Sat May 18, 2024 12:52 am
- Forum: Art and Culture
- Topic: Bettany Hughes - Bulgaria
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1698
Re: Bettany Hughes - Bulgaria
I've been to Bulgaria and seen both the tombs and the Thracians goods in museums, especially Kazanlak, Plovdiv, and Sofia. Absolutely stunning stuff. And the first thing that strikes one is the parallels to what we're seeing in Macedonia, in both goods and tomb type, although tombs such as Seuthes' ...
- Sun Apr 28, 2024 7:02 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Netflix’s Alexander..
- Replies: 15
- Views: 4629
Re: Netflix’s Alexander..
I felt for you, Jeanne, seeing you named as a historical adviser, and then seeing the complete mess they made of it! :-( Thanks, Marcus. I thought of my job as keeping out the more egregious errors. E.g., what *didn't* get in, because I nixed it. LOL But as advisor, you are simply that: advisor. Th...
- Sun Apr 28, 2024 6:57 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Netflix’s Alexander..
- Replies: 15
- Views: 4629
Re: Netflix’s Alexander..
But if lot of liberties were taken because of the lack of money, why Netflix added a lot of nonsense to Alexander's history, such as the old Egyptian priestess, the Persians playing polo, Alexander begging the Persian governor of Egypt on his knees, and so on? Is it necessary to tell so many lies o...
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 12:04 am
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Netflix’s Alexander..
- Replies: 15
- Views: 4629
Re: Netflix’s Alexander..
There were a LOT of liberties taken, many all about cost. For example, the (daughter) Barsine is too old because it's apparently super-expensive to bring minors onto a set. And there aren't nearly enough people, even guards for Alexander, due to lack of money. They couldn't afford a lot that was sug...
- Wed Apr 03, 2024 8:07 am
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: location of Peuce
- Replies: 11
- Views: 5526
Re: location of Peuce
Try this site. It's enormously comprehensive. Very useful. Takes a bit of poking to figure it out, but I used it extensively for my digital epigraphy project.
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- Mon Mar 25, 2024 6:56 am
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Pothos now inherited by Alexias and on a new server.
- Replies: 18
- Views: 7889
Re: Winding down pothos
Sorry to see it go, but I remember when it started! I was a new grad student at Penn State studying Alexander with Gene Borza. I am now a tenured professor in spitting distance of retiring. I toast this as the first and longest-running site about Alexander the Great on the web. Thanks for taking it ...
- Sun Mar 17, 2024 4:07 am
- Forum: Art and Culture
- Topic: Ancient Greek music
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2804
Re: Ancient Greek music
While we're on the topic of ancient Greek music, let me plug my friend Bettina's work. Multiple lyres on ancient models, aulos, and she has a beautiful voice, too. :-) She's also the Bettina Joy DeGuzman "Bettina Joy de Guzman is a multi-instrumentalist and Classicist, composing with replica an...
- Tue Feb 13, 2024 6:18 am
- Forum: Art and Culture
- Topic: EXCAVATION IN EGYPTl. LIMNEOS PAPAKOSTA
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2563
Re: EXCAVATION IN EGYPTl. LIMNEOS PAPAKOSTA
Again, many thanks. And yes, when I was doing the cataloguing of epigraphical occurrences of all Hephais-/Haphe(i)s-based names, QUITE a number appeared on or related to pottery, which is not a great surprise, considering. I'd assume maker until we get more information. Same as the name in the Kasta...
- Mon Feb 12, 2024 7:33 pm
- Forum: Art and Culture
- Topic: EXCAVATION IN EGYPTl. LIMNEOS PAPAKOSTA
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2563
Re: EXCAVATION IN EGYPTl. LIMNEOS PAPAKOSTA
Very interesting! Thanks for this. Have bookmarked.
- Thu Feb 08, 2024 9:33 am
- Forum: Alexander the Great in the Media
- Topic: Historical Consultant on Netflix’s ‘Alexander: The Making of a God’
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2778
Re: Historical Consultant on Netflix’s ‘Alexander: The Making of a God’
The pool scene owes nothing to me. I didn't write the scripts. That was in the script before I ever saw it. Historical consultants have very specific jobs, and script-writing isn't included. :wink: But thanks. There are obviously various errors. And to be clear, I was never shown any design boards f...
- Fri Jan 26, 2024 7:55 am
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: An Unconventional Take on the Vergina Tomb: Is it Alexander’s?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3404
Re: An Unconventional Take on the Vergina Tomb: Is it Alexander’s?
Jonathan Hall also has made an argument that Tomb II was intended to be Alexander's, but was never finished, then repurposed by Kassandros when he recovered the remains of Arrhidaios and Eurydike. If I remember right, it's in his book Artifact and Artifice. It's not an illogical argument.
- Fri Nov 03, 2023 4:47 am
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Herculaneum papyri
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4711
Re: Herculaneum papyri
Ironically, one of the guys working on the Herculaneum papyri is from the Univ of Nebraska, Lincoln, just to my south. Local news station interviewed me about it. Anyway, it appears that most of the scrolls are philosophical in nature, specifically Epicurean. Will be a huge boon to that field. There...
- Thu Oct 05, 2023 4:53 pm
- Forum: Art and Culture
- Topic: The palace of Aegae
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5383
Re: The palace of Aegae
I'll be happy when this is open again. I've walked it in the past (before recent work), but when there in 2018, it was still closed.
- Thu Oct 05, 2023 4:51 pm
- Forum: Alexander the Great in the Media
- Topic: The History Channel’s ‘Alexander the Great’ in ‘Ancient Empires’
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5912
Re: The History Channel’s ‘Alexander the Great’ in ‘Ancient Empires’
Thank you.
And yes, alas, I believe it's restricted to North America, at least for now, on their website.
Netflix's will NOT have a dark Alexander (who's taller than Hephaistion?!)
And yes, alas, I believe it's restricted to North America, at least for now, on their website.
Netflix's will NOT have a dark Alexander (who's taller than Hephaistion?!)