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by Alexias
Sun Dec 13, 2015 11:19 am
Forum: Alexander's contemporaries
Topic: Amyntor Amyntoros
Replies: 18
Views: 22304

Re: Amyntor Amyntoros

Thanks for the update. Maybe you could let us know when it is published. Not that I know anything about the subject, but I did notice that the name 'Hephaestion' appears to have been quite popular amongst the descendants of the Greek soldier settled in Egypt, with examples surviving from the 2nd cen...
by Alexias
Tue Dec 08, 2015 10:49 pm
Forum: Art and Culture
Topic: Statues of Alexander and Hephaestion, National Museum of Athens
Replies: 38
Views: 18410

Re: Statues of Alexander and Hephaestion, National Museum of Athens

Lucky you, Pauline, to get to see these without having to go to Alexandria. I'm guessing that there is no inscription on these to say who is who, but that the identification has been made based on the similarity of the right hand statue to other portraits of Alexander, and the similarity of the othe...
by Alexias
Tue Dec 08, 2015 10:32 pm
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: The Sphinxes Guarding the Lion Tomb Entrance at Amphipolis
Replies: 1585
Views: 542236

Re: The Sphinxes Guarding the Lion Tomb Entrance at Amphipolis

There probably isn't any way to prove that a local such as Apollodorus built the shrine. But completing it as a family mausoleum while retaining the function as a shrine would serve to remind people that the family had connections with the great and famous, and that the founder had been on Alexander...
by Alexias
Mon Dec 07, 2015 10:25 pm
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: The Sphinxes Guarding the Lion Tomb Entrance at Amphipolis
Replies: 1585
Views: 542236

Re: The Sphinxes Guarding the Lion Tomb Entrance at Amphipolis

...Apollodorus may have commissioned the shrine in order to convince Alexander of his good intentions and innocence of any crimes. Why Amphipolis and not Ecbatana or Babylon? Maybe he couldn't afford to build there, or wanted to spread Hephaestion's worship as a hero at home, and build himself a fa...
by Alexias
Sun Dec 06, 2015 9:20 pm
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: The Sphinxes Guarding the Lion Tomb Entrance at Amphipolis
Replies: 1585
Views: 542236

Re: The Sphinxes Guarding the Lion Tomb Entrance at Amphipolis

If the tomb at Amphipolis does prove to be a heroon to Hephaestion, it is possible that the person who paid for it to be built was Apollodorus, one of Alexander's generals who came from Amphipolis. He commanded the troops that Alexander left behind in Babylon, and when Alexander returned from India ...
by Alexias
Sun Nov 29, 2015 7:23 pm
Forum: Alexander the Great in the Media
Topic: Images of Power
Replies: 2
Views: 9957

Re: Images of Power

Oh, she doesn't like Alexander, does she? He's a great big murderer. Yet no mention that Julius Caesar wasn't exactly pure of hand. What about the cold-blooded pursuit and execution of the pirates? Maybe she just meant that Alexander was responsible for more deaths, but that might be debateable cons...
by Alexias
Mon Nov 23, 2015 9:39 pm
Forum: Alexander's contemporaries
Topic: Hephaestion
Replies: 27
Views: 52275

Re: Hephaestion

You could: 1. buy Andrew's book http://www.amazon.co.uk/Alexanders-Lovers-Second-Andrew-Chugg/dp/0955679044/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1448313706&sr=1-1&keywords=alexander%27s+lovers+by+andrew+chugg 2. visit Jeanne's website http://jeannereames.net/Hephaistion/index.html 3. buy J...
by Alexias
Mon Nov 23, 2015 3:42 pm
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: Alexander's Grave Will Be found
Replies: 11
Views: 5115

Re: Alexander's Grave Will Be found

If you want to be really PC, Richard was a Catholic who acknowledged the Pope as head of the church. He should not have been reburied in an Anglican church, which does not acknowledge the Pope as head of its church. :wink:
by Alexias
Sat Nov 21, 2015 7:03 pm
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: Alexander's Grave Will Be found
Replies: 11
Views: 5115

Re: Alexander's Grave Will Be found

Maybe museums could be viewed as modern temples to worship the dead. But seeing the face of a bog body is still unsettling. Anyway, it seems unlikely Alexander organised his own funeral as he couldn't manage to organise his successor. Being young, he wouldn't have admitted he was dying until the las...
by Alexias
Wed Nov 18, 2015 7:18 pm
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: Alexander's Grave Will Be found
Replies: 11
Views: 5115

Re: Alexander's Grave Will Be found

I am not sure I would want Alexander's mummy to be found - to be dissected and analysed and to find out that he had intestinal parasites and tooth decay etc, and to have endless debates about whether he was a wheezing cripple because of the chest wound and the lesions that would have been a conseque...
by Alexias
Mon Nov 16, 2015 4:37 pm
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: Alexander's Grave Will Be found
Replies: 11
Views: 5115

Re: Alexander's Grave Will Be found

Sadly I doubt it. There were known descendants of Richard III's family (living in Canada I think) against whom the DNA of the skeleton could be verified. We don't have anything like that for Alexander. Also, Richard's burial place was known - it was a case of locating where it was in relation to the...
by Alexias
Sat Nov 07, 2015 7:31 pm
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: The Sphinxes Guarding the Lion Tomb Entrance at Amphipolis
Replies: 1585
Views: 542236

Re: The Sphinxes Guarding the Lion Tomb Entrance at Amphipolis

Thanks, agesilaos, it was just an idea. I've posted this before elsewhere, but EM Forster, who wrote a History and Guide to Alexandria in 1922, was under the impression that at least one of the two shrines for Hephaestion was built in Alexandria on the island of Pharos, in the area of Ras-el-Tin, ne...
by Alexias
Wed Nov 04, 2015 9:07 pm
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: The Sphinxes Guarding the Lion Tomb Entrance at Amphipolis
Replies: 1585
Views: 542236

Re: The Sphinxes Guarding the Lion Tomb Entrance at Amphipolis

I am unsure if anyone has mentioned this, but is it possible that, if these engravings do represent Hephaestion's name, they are some kind of official seal? Arrian says of Alexander's letter to Cleomenes whom he had left to build Alexandria The chapels were to be exceedingly large and to be built at...
by Alexias
Mon Oct 12, 2015 9:59 pm
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: The Sphinxes Guarding the Lion Tomb Entrance at Amphipolis
Replies: 1585
Views: 542236

Re: The Sphinxes Guarding the Lion Tomb Entrance at Amphipolis

Well, this 'official' photo shows a completely different interpretation of the rosette.

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