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I found a reference online. According to Isaac Asimov in his Guide to the Bible - Part Two, The New Testament: Bagoas is the Greek form of a Persian name meaning "given by God" and was often used for eunuchs, so that the phrase "Bagoas the eunuch" was almost a cliche. THANK you!...

Jona Lendering's livius.org has a couple of good articles on the different Bagoases. According to Jona Lendering, trierarch and "favorite" Bagoases were the same. I am getting the sense that one can pick whatever interpretation one is most comfortable with! Personally, I would have never ...

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It seems all that color was quite a shock to the folks visiting the exhibition at Athens!

Lets clear it up with a brief description of each one. 1. Bagoas the Egyptian Eunouch. He is famous for murdering Artaxerxes Ochus and Arses. 2. Bagoas the Persian Eunouch. He is the most famous one. Firstly he was said to have sexual relationship with Darius and later he became as you said a flatt...

Is there any modern consensus as to how many Bagoases existed in Alexander's court? There is Darius' and later, Alexander's favorite Bagoas, who he kissed after the dance at Karmania, and who played a role in Orxines' death. Then there is Bagoas who was the only Persian trierarch during the Indus vo...

Doesn't Plutarch when talking about Barsine, Memnon's widow, say that she was the first woman Alexander slept with? Why did Plutarch ignore Pankaspe/Pakate? If this story of Alexander giving Pankaspe to Apelles was a common one and showed Alexander's great qualities when young, I wonder why Plutarch...

Slightly off-topic, according to Elizabeth Carney's book (and from Justin), Philip II killed his half-brothers, the three sons of step-mother Gygaea, Archelaus, Arrhideus and Menelaus. So, the sons of Philip's father , killed each other. I wonder, did Philip, who loved marriage as a useful political...

The Manila Bulletin (another expired link) insists on the mystical significance of onions and tells us GÇ£Even Alexander the Great believed in its magical abilities like restoring courage, and so he fed his armies large quantities of it.GÇ¥ Now, as onions are wont to give a person gas, eating large...

I have seen it assumed in many places that Alexander packed off Barsine (pregnant or newly delivered of a son) to the far west when he met Roxane. However, all we know for certain is that she conceived a child with him in 328/327 BC, her daughter/sisters were married in 324 BC in Susa and she was li...

Just as an afterthought about your post of unmechanised marches- it just occured to me that apart from the Makran or Gedrosian desert march- we didn't mention "crossing the Hindu Kush"- in the centre of Afganistan a mountain range 6000 metres up and snow tipped- suppose it is the kind of ...

I suppose that we know precious little about this girl. I think that one interesting fact overlooked on many occasions is that Alexander and Roxanne spoke different languages- although, if they met in 327 then it is probable that Roxanne had a grasp of the workings of Greek- at least to understand ...

One last comment to those who do believe in the tale to its fullest extent: The story says that they were alone and that Alexander charged Roxane never to tell anyone what took place. So who recorded this event? Are we to assume that Roxane betrayed the last confidence she ever had with her husband...

Hello! Sorry to bring up this older thread up front again. I was wondering, however, if anyone knows whether Dengue fever has ever been considered a possibility as the cause of Alexander's death. This trpical/subtropical fever is transmitted by mosquito bites, is accompanied by high fever and terrib...

Many people still see OlympiasGÇÖ relationship with both Alexander and Philip as being excessively emotional in that her problems with Philip originated from sexual jealousy, and that she influenced Alexander against his father because of this. ........ ThereGÇÖs much evidence that Olympias was a c...

(p.s. could Chubaka be Cleitus the black?) Best regards, Dean p.p.s. and Aristotle- Yoda? :roll: Surely Chewbacca would be Bucephalas, the most famous horse in history? Han Hephaistion Solo. :D Aristotle seems more like Obi-Wan Kenobi and the mysterious Oracle in the remote desert, Yoda. But who is...