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Hello Laura - I like the question - and yes, I can see the importance of knowing if Olympias or other women of the court were involved in state affairs in this manner. From memory, I know of no such occasion. But others here have far more knowledge about the court of Philip. Maybe Tre wants to answe...

All of West-Asia between the Sea of Marmara to the Indus Valley and most of the Punjab; Egypt too.
Nick

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Nick

Check the "About this author..." options in the information drop-down menu. All your answers should be in there.
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Nick

Hi Marcus - Well, a synopsis of both the Hollywood and the Bollywood movies have been available in the Information section for ages (check Motion Pictures). Later on, I discovered there are actually two versions of the Hollywood movie: the official full length movie (available on VHS) and a little s...

Hi Marcus - Well, a synopsis of both the Hollywood and the Bollywood movies have been available in the Information section for ages (check Motion Pictures). Later on, I discovered there are actually two versions of the Hollywood movie: the official full length movie (available on VHS) and a little s...

I suppose a concept like "the love of his life" - as Laura wrote - is also a projection of our current values on the ancient world. In our present society it is desirable to be able to point out one single individual and claim: "This is the true one." I doubt whether the ancients...

I know this might be 'controversial', but from everything I read Alexander had just one goal: to become the Great King of Persia. Peter Green writes that Alexander thought Greece and Macedonia were expendable. The fact that he chose Babylon as his capital (why not Pella?) is also a sign. In the end ...

Thanks dr. Pal. I had always wondered where the name Pimprama came from - it is only in the Romances, nowhere else. Still, I would like one day to see something like a map of ancient India according to your findings. (Most maps I know generally show Taxila, Muttra (Mathura), and Pataliputra and Patt...

As far as I know none of them survived - if they were ever written at all (?) - at least nothing survived that can be regarded as genuine. Many letters between Alexander and Aristotle were forged during the composition of the Alexander Romances in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. You might find t...

At your service, John. I had not noticed that one. Though it appeared less abusive than the previous one, I think we should keep the Forum clean of abusing eachother.
Thanks,
Nick

Sorry. I thought it wise to delete that abusive "reading" comment. However, I cannot delete a 'root' posting without deleting its follow ups too. So a genuine follow up comment has gone lost. My sincere apologies.
Nick

Dear dr. Pal -
This is not at all my topic... But it is interesting! Thank you. I will dive into the matter soon.
Best regards,
Nick

Sikander has a number of them in his upcoming review list. Here is my summary: Fuller - The Generalship of Alexanderpublished around 1960, but probably still the best survey of the topic. Dodge - Alexanderpublished in 1890 (!!!), romantic, supposedly inaccurate according to modern standards, but not...

There is very little on the web... You need to get hold of Richard Stoneman's "Legends of Alexander the Great" - or check my synopsis of some Medieval sources under "Legends" in the Information section. As far as I can see, Richard Stoneman is the one and only real world authorit...