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- 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...
- 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...
- Tue Dec 08, 2015 10:32 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: The Sphinxes Guarding the Lion Tomb Entrance at Amphipolis
- Replies: 1585
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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...
- Mon Dec 07, 2015 10:25 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: The Sphinxes Guarding the Lion Tomb Entrance at Amphipolis
- Replies: 1585
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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...
- Sun Dec 06, 2015 9:20 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: The Sphinxes Guarding the Lion Tomb Entrance at Amphipolis
- Replies: 1585
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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 ...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Tue Oct 13, 2015 9:27 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
Thank you for the translation, gepd.
- 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.
http://www.thousandnews.gr/index.php/ep ... siopliktoi
http://www.thousandnews.gr/index.php/ep ... siopliktoi