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The priests were to the Egyptians what the philosophers were to the Greeks. Even Solon went to Egypt to converse with some of their priest. You are making a parallelism. The Egyptian priests were keepers of knowlledge. As some of the Greek priests were also. Philosophy by definition at ancient Gree...

And the Egyptians did not have philosophy.



The preists were to the Egyptians what the philosophers were to the Greeks. Even Solon went to Egypt to converse with some of their priest.

I am not sure of the whole Aristotle having a part in Alexander's death theory. He was such an extraodinary man and I don't see him diving so low as to murder or have a hand in Alexander's murder. That part about Aristotle was in the same book by Peter Green. He states that Aristotle's friend, Theop...

Well the theory of typhoid was done in 1998 and the study I just found online was done more recently with the poison theory. When I first started to research Alexander's life I thought he was poisoned then I had found the typhoid theory and leaned towards that, but now I am again looking at poisonin...

Here is another source of some information regarding this from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_the_Great The original story stated that Cassander, son of Antipater, viceroy of Greece, brought the poison to Alexander in Babylon in a mule's hoof, and that Alexander's royal cupbearer, Iollas, br...

I think the link that I gave states that no poison known back then would have the effects that Alexander exhibited. It took several days from the start of the illness until they assumed he was dead. Also that his body didn't show signs of poisoning either, he would have possibly had sores, rotting o...

I know what you mean. To me, sometimes he seems unusually magnanimous for a conquerer. Other times he's just another brutal conquerer. Like his many of the actions in India. Or the killing fest he went on to soothe himself after Hephaistion's death. The important point to make is that all conquest ...

I'm definately not naive enough to think these things didn't happen in Alexander's army. After all boys will be boys and these are the spoils of war. I do think it was less brutal than what the Romans did and others as well. It seems courtesies were given to your enemy back then which is very differ...

I wanted to see if we could discuss something that sticks in my mind about Alexander. His Mother had told him that he gives too much to his men and that there wouldn't be anything left for himself. Do you think by giving so much to his men that this may have been part of why his men refused to conti...

I agree that what was written about his treatment of women had to do with as you said, exceptional cases. I do recall the other story you are talking about when Alexander had Darius's loved ones. I looked back in a few books to see if I could find any non exceptional cases, but can't find any. :lol:...

I know there are more stories of how Alexander treated women, but that was the first one that popped into my head without rummaging through my books. I was trying to emphasize his compassion, at least in my interpretation of his character.

Just the name Cassander evokes such hatred in me. To kill Alexander's son and wife the way he did. I can't imagine he was liked very well by the Macedonian people. From some sources I've read they didn't. I know that Alexander IV was depicted on some Egyptian reliefs so he did have a taste of power ...

Thank you all for your information on sources for Hephaestion. I have known about Jeanne's dissertation and will probably get that. I did order Alexander's Lovers today and will look forward to reading that one.

I have read quite a few different versions of Alexander's death. It seems there has been some great thought into this subject by scientist, Doctors, Historians, archeologist. I guess the main belief now is that he had died of Typhoid fever not poisoning. It took days for him to die and it was said h...

Happily there are a lot of busts and statues left of Alexander and most have a likeness to one another. I know Lysippos was his sculptur of choice so he probably depicted Alexander pretty closely to what he really looked like. If you have time to compare the pictures online of all the existing statu...