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by Tantalus
Tue Jun 12, 2007 4:10 pm
Forum: Art and Culture
Topic: Alexander & the kopis
Replies: 25
Views: 10885

Here's the message I get when I go to your link:

"You are not authorized to view, download or link to this Site."

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by Tantalus
Wed Jun 06, 2007 5:27 pm
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: Passionate archaeologist
Replies: 13
Views: 12205

Alita, If you want answers to your questions you really should read Andrew's book first. From your post it seems that you haven't yet. I think you would enjoy it. As for Alexander being in St. Mark's tomb, that is not really what his book is about. It is only in the last few pages of the book that h...
by Tantalus
Sat May 19, 2007 10:08 pm
Forum: Book reviews
Topic: FYI, 2 new books
Replies: 5
Views: 2675

...many thanks... You're very welcome! Definitely many articles of interest here, although I only knew details of a couple of them in advance. I could not find any of the articles listed anywhere either. So I manually typed them here because I was sure others would want to know. Yes, the chapter on...
by Tantalus
Wed May 16, 2007 9:49 pm
Forum: Book reviews
Topic: FYI, 2 new books
Replies: 5
Views: 2675

FYI, 2 new books

Regina Books has a new book out. It just came in the mail today. Alexander's Empire Formulation to Decay http://www.reginabooks.com/ancient&medieval.html (Although their site incorrectly lists it as Foundation to Decay) Editors: Waldemar Heckel Lawrence Tritle Pat Wheatley 301 pages The chapters...
by Tantalus
Sun Apr 08, 2007 9:33 pm
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: Alexander the great and Music
Replies: 26
Views: 11741

An insightful post Aengus. Thank you! :)
by Tantalus
Mon Mar 12, 2007 11:01 pm
Forum: Book reviews
Topic: Alexander's Journal & Competition: Alexandrian Buildings
Replies: 5
Views: 2701

Thanks for passing that on to Craig. That was nice of him to offer to send Volume 19 but I will resend a check. It is possible he never got it and I only want to do what is right. And maybe he has very aggressive spam filters. So I will be mindful of what I write and I will send it from a couple dif...
by Tantalus
Sun Mar 11, 2007 10:35 pm
Forum: Book reviews
Topic: Alexander's Journal & Competition: Alexandrian Buildings
Replies: 5
Views: 2701

Thanks Andrew.

I will try one more time but I will require a signature to receive my letter. But my impression of AHB right now is not very good.
by Tantalus
Sun Mar 11, 2007 9:53 pm
Forum: Book reviews
Topic: Alexander's Journal & Competition: Alexandrian Buildings
Replies: 5
Views: 2701

Andrew, I would like to get that issue of AHB with your article The Journal of Alexander the Great but... Since you are obviously in contact with Craig Cooper, an editor of Ancient History Bulletin, can you confirm with him that the address and email listed on http://www.uwinnipeg.ca/faculty/classic...
by Tantalus
Mon Jan 01, 2007 9:04 am
Forum: Alexander the Great in the Media
Topic: Lost Treasure Of Alexander
Replies: 14
Views: 8750

jasonxx, sorry, I guess we kind of hijacked your thread when we started talking about this gold coin. So to your original question. I have never come across any mention of a lost treasure of Alexander. Since, unlike a pirate, Alexander had no need to hide any treasure I would think the places where...
by Tantalus
Mon Jan 01, 2007 5:27 am
Forum: Alexander the Great in the Media
Topic: Lost Treasure Of Alexander
Replies: 14
Views: 8750

If anyone speaks French there is a book about this coin. It is not listed on Amazon.com but it is on Amazon.ca. Le Portrait d'Alexandre le Grand Unfortunately it says "currently not available" but there are some listed on this abebooks.com page. I have not found a translation into english.
by Tantalus
Sun Dec 31, 2006 10:01 pm
Forum: Alexander the Great in the Media
Topic: Lost Treasure Of Alexander
Replies: 14
Views: 8750

The main problem I have with this coin is, as Andrew mentioned, the scaly aegis. (the chevron/arrow pattern in the collar area). In the article Early Tetradrachms of Ptolemy I by Orestes H. Zervos, ANS Museum Notes 13, Zervos notes that the scaly aegis was first used in a small transitional issue th...
by Tantalus
Sat Dec 30, 2006 8:51 pm
Forum: Alexander the Great in the Media
Topic: Lost Treasure Of Alexander
Replies: 14
Views: 8750

(I wrote this up last night in response to Andrew's earlier post but I had not posted it yet. Andrew, that's an interesting point about the similarity between the gold coin and the later Ptolemy tetradrachms. I will have to think about that one.) _________________________ I am so excited about this...
by Tantalus
Wed Dec 27, 2006 4:45 am
Forum: Comments, help, suggestions etc
Topic: The future of pothos.org (2007-8? version) + new server
Replies: 37
Views: 19599

Thomas wrote: The other providers are better, faster, cheaper, more reliable and host several sites for me already. It simplifies things for me to keep everything together.
Those are reasons enough. Just do it! :)
by Tantalus
Wed Dec 13, 2006 11:25 pm
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: Alexander floods Ecbatana?
Replies: 6
Views: 2845

I think this is a confusion of Alexander's entry into Cyropolis, I think, via a dry water course and an earlier Assyrian ruse whereby the river was dammed as it exited the city causing it to flood and undermine the walls, cut to atrocity... Maybe an Assyrian king besieged Ecbatana in a previous cen...