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That's really interesting. Thank you.

I went to VErgina in 2019 and absolutely loved it (of course). It's amazing how they are able to reconstruct the painting so brilliantly.

Nah. There are a few clips on YouTube full of scantily clad maidens, an Olympias straight from the Angelina Jolie school of accents, and what seems like an improbable plot of Alexander getting caught up in a conspiracy to murder Philip and being accused of being involved while trying to defend Phil...

Wow. I completely missed this, too.

I will have to have a look. Is it any good?

That looks really interesting, thanks.

I realise that the other Stark books I've read (apart from 'Alexander's Path') are 'The Lycian Shore' and 'The Valleys of the Assassins'. Both really good.

I haven't read that book, I don't think, although I have read another of Stark's books about travelling in the Middle East. I have read "Alexander's Path", however. Fantastic books, and beautifully written. Thank you for this one - I will find it and read it at some point!

I haven't come across this book, but it sounds interesting. Thank you - I shall look out for it and might buy myself a cheeky present ...

That's a good article, I thought.

Thank you for posting.

hiphys wrote: ↑Mon Jan 20, 2025 6:21 am 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.

I won't be reading that, then!

I really think it's an impossible question to answer, as the Roman army was a very different beast by that time than it had been before Hannibal began his campaign. At the end of the day, Alexander never had to face the Roman army in any form, so we cannot say how he would have fared against the pre...

I had always thought that Kalanos was probably a Buddhist, anyway!

Interesting article (even though it has the date of Kalanos' and Alexander's deaths wrong).

Alexias wrote: ↑Fri Jan 17, 2025 9:59 am Not directly related, but an update on some of the current excavations at Pompeii https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c15zgvnvk4do

I heard some of this on the radio this week - an amazing find.

The photos in the article you posted are astonishing!

Thanks. They don't mention how tiny the tesserae of this mosaic are - maybe 1 cm square - when a lot of other tesserae are about 1inch square. Must have made the mosaic extremely expensive. I went to Naples last Easter, with the specific intention of having a good old look at the mosaic ... only to...

I had a suspicion whilst writing last night that the Greek mercenaries were fighting on the Persian side, not on Alexander's side. I therefore did a bit of investigating. Diodorus says (Book XVII, 17) that of the troops Alexander took into Asia there were 5,000 mercenary infantry. Although there is...

Alexias wrote: ↑Sun Jan 12, 2025 9:10 am Thanks. I think that's 4 pm GMT, so I don't think I will be able to make it. Maybe there will be a transcript afterwards.

I have the same problem. Maybe there will be a transcript, or even a recording ...

Although it's a little sloppy for the journalist to say "Ancient records say that Alexander stationed Persian Greek mercenaries on a hill ..."