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Ok, I've made a start on setting up new forums. Any suggestions/amendments/complaints, please let me know. The next phases are Moving existing posts to the new forums. This will take some time so will be a work in progress Updating the software. This may entail locking the forums over a weekend so ...

There is also the rest of the known world during Alexander's time (and maybe even a little later) although any such sub-form ought to have better name. I know, for instance, that there are members other than myself who share an interest in Thrace. And of course there is Persia and India and more ......

I used an online Loeb translation by John C. Rolfe, from 1971, I think. I try to use texts that are readily available but would be happy to see a better translation if anyone would like to post.

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It IS in Curtius, but I confess I had to search it out as I didn't recall it either. Quintis Curtius Book 3.3.2-7 Then, worried as he (Darius) was by pressing cares, he was also tormented in sleep by visions of imminent dangers, whether these were called up by anxiety or (3) by the divining power of...

I'd be interested in Willekes' rationale and source material backing the "Mediterranean preference for riding stallions". In the work referenced in my previous post, Willekes claims that the Macedonians had this preference. Her only argument is Alexander riding Bukephalos. One horse, from...

http://www.bollywoodlife.com/news-gossip/laksh-lalwani-as-porus-and-rohit-purohit-as-alexander-stand-out-in-the-first-teaser-of-porus/ Scroll down the web page for the actual teaser, although you may have to click on the link to Sony Instagram to watch. Even in this brief excerpt one can see histori...

Okay, thank you for the above. I knew the Greeks had no zero but I never really investigated how they counted without one! However, doesn't that mean that a child born in the first month of a year and the last month of the same year would both be considered "one" year old? That would expla...

Alexias wrote: I think Heracles date of birth is usually calculated to be 328-327, rather than 326. ....only by those who calculate incorrectly! :lol: We are told that in 310 BC, 'Heracles' was "about 17 years of age" [D.S.XX.20.1]. Unlike us, who calculate age in arrears ( i.e. you are o...

Good grief. When people come to Pothos they :expect: to find arguments, debates, disagreements, sometimes heated discussions, etc. Doesn't matter what one calls them and as long as they stay on topic and do not become personal then they have a place here. Is it not possible to actually discuss Alexa...

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Try The Voyage around the Erythraean Sea for information on goods and places of trade in ancient Arabia. The work was written around the first century CE and therefore some of the goods (and places?) were possibly not available in Alexander's time. Nevertheless, I think the info on incense might be ...

Amyntoros wrote: Xenophon wrote: The only alternative to the formation and drill shown above was put forward by the late Agesilaos, and his version proved to be impractical, in fact all but impossible.[ see page 1] You should add your own "in my opinion" here. The fact that the Taktike th...

Perhaps anyone wishing to revisit the so called "dinner drill" might be better advised to go the 'Taktike' thread . ......only for those interested in the 'minutiae' of the subject and the usual various digressions. For readers generally, I can save them the trouble of ploughing through a...

Nicator: I live in Austria, and just down the valley there is a beautiful little town where some road workers uncovered an unmarked cemetery . It turned out that that town had been a centre for the T4 murder program, where the Nazis got their start murdering children and old people and the disabled...

Nevertheless, I remember an epigram of the Palatine Anthology dedicated to one of Alexander's swords that was kept in a temple. Unfortunately I don't remember the number of the epigram! Have found a reference to a spear of Alexander, but so far no sword. The Greek Anthology Volume I, Book VI, 97 (P...