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Right, Engels does not say that Alexander did not move from Troy to meet the army at Arisbe he confirms that, p33. His point is that to get to the site of Alexandria Troas would have necessitated a two day excursion away from his reunion with the main army, two days his rations and the situation co...

I transferred my current thinking on his route to my "Alexander map" on Google maps. https://maps.google.co.uk/maps/myplaces?hl=en&vpsrc=3&ctz=-180&abauth=50 5c3fefMAs3O_ZcQWpU6sZ3oVn4KMg8R-k&vps=1&num=10 Sorry, I'm being dumb and can't get that link to work. It's not ...

I put the visit to Troy into the route for completeness sake, but really I wish I hadn't now. Troy is an illuminating anecdote, how he moved from Granicus to Sardis is basic military stragegy. I'm not interested in the former until I understand the latter. Donald Engels, Agesilaus and me are a formi...

Hello, Anyone can give me an idea of how much of Alexandria original seashore line has been drowned during all those tsunami events (even after 350AD...). I was thinking about the location of Alexander's tomb, and its relation to the seashore. I've seen these pictures (http://www.oddee.com/item_966...

Off the top of my head, however, I would imagine that the coastal route was posited because of Alexander's previous coastal route, and the fact that all the towns in Lycia that he approached were, basically, coastal (or very nearly). Certainly he would have had to approach Termessos from the coast,...

If you google "latsis foundation" and go to the e-library and then the "museums cycle" you can see the Pella, Olympia (amazing photo of helmets in a row), Marathon, National, Thebes, Delphi (astonishing), Heraklion, Thessaloniki, Delos, Elefsis, Piraeus, Acropolis and Benaki Mus...

I'm trying to understand how Alexander got from the Granicus to Sardis: most maps show him going via Dascylium and then south, through the mountains. Peter Sommers (who advised on the BBC programme) and who walked the entire route himself seems to agree. But D Engels says that Alexander is much more...

I have a few questions: f) Why would anybody see any evidence in any of this to distinguish between Arrian’s and Cleitarchus’s accounts of Persepolis? Is it not rather the case that archaeology has nothing to say on this matter? Is this surprising, given that it would be hard to distinguish between...

Paralus wrote:For the record Shahbazi's doctorate and (master's degree) was gained in archaeology. His obituary can be read here.

you said you have access to JSTOR. did you manage to find the article?

Chris.

Let me make a small contribute to all this: Bryn Mawr Classical Review "Waldemar Hechel, J.C Yardey "Alexander the Great- Historical sources in translation" - Reviewed by Jona Lendering Jona Lendering - yes! I was 99% certain I'd read it on the Livius site, but I was so baffled I cou...

I searched for the article on Google, but I can't find it and I don't have access to JSTOR anymore. I do. What details do you have? nothing more than what I've said above: persepolis, stone bench or seating, not part of original Persian complex, identified as dating from Alexander's time, peculiar ...

My guess, therefore, would be that the seats, if they were there, were put on the hillside (from where the picture above was taken). I wish you could re-find that article! :D ATB if I do come across it again, I'll certainly post the link here. On a different note: looking at your photos and your ex...

I was at Persepolis in 2008. go on , do make me jealous ... :) The Palace of Darius was closed to visitors, but all other parts of the complex were open. I walked through the Palace of Xerxes, as well as the Apadana. I don't remember seeing anything that could be construed as being spectator seatin...

And he planned it well in advance. He had benches built so people could watch. They're still there. Where? I never saw them. I searched for the article on Google, but I can't find it and I don't have access to JSTOR anymore. the article showed a photo of a single row of stone seats, IIRC without ba...

Arrian also applies his usual principles of economy with the truth in failing to explain that Alexander spent several months based at Persepolis and only burnt the palace at the end of that period. Curtius (Cleitarchus) provides far more detail and a much more credible account of events. Best wishe...