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- Wed Dec 19, 2007 2:55 pm
- Forum: Art and Culture
- Topic: Tetrarchy?
- Replies: 24
- Views: 12438
- Tue Dec 18, 2007 2:28 pm
- Forum: Art and Culture
- Topic: Tetrarchy?
- Replies: 24
- Views: 12438
Frequently one wonders if Arrian had any idea what these terms actually meant. Indeed one does. The impression is that the primary sources used such terminology as a matter of course. Further, given the intended audience, they felt no need to explain in any meaningful way what it all meant. This se...
- Tue Dec 18, 2007 2:02 pm
- Forum: Book reviews
- Topic: The Conquests of Alexander by Waldemar Heckel
- Replies: 43
- Views: 17369
Arimazes believing that his situation was desperate, whereas it was in fact not hopeless, came down to the king's camp with his relatives and the principal nobles of his race; Alexander ordered all these to be scourged and crucified at the very foot of the rock. In addition, I must say that I don't...
- Tue Dec 18, 2007 1:37 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Another date with Kleitarchos
- Replies: 18
- Views: 7799
The theme of the world-wide empire is a very interesting one, but I am not so sure that it necessarily was Antigonid propaganda. The view that only the Antigonids aimed at gaining control of Alexander's entire empire seems a misconception to me. I would say that all Successors, including Ptolemy, ha...
- Thu Dec 13, 2007 5:36 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Another date with Kleitarchos
- Replies: 18
- Views: 7799
- Wed Dec 12, 2007 8:35 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Another date with Kleitarchos
- Replies: 18
- Views: 7799
I agree too with your analysis of where we stand vis a vis Klietarchos, but we cannot just give up; everything can only be hypothesis but some will stand up better than others, one hopes and just how the so-called Vulgate relates to the 'official' history depends fundamentally on our perception of ...
- Tue Dec 11, 2007 5:59 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Another date with Kleitarchos
- Replies: 18
- Views: 7799
Some very interesting thoughts there, Agesilaos. I cannot engage with all of it, but I thought it might be interesting to point out that there still was some interest in Aiakid descent in the first century. Charles Edson has published a first century inscription from near Pydna of someone claiming A...
- Wed Apr 04, 2007 3:50 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Justin's comparison of Philip and Alexander
- Replies: 100
- Views: 31424
Ancient historiography was literary genre and while ancient historians certainly cared about the truth, they also liked to show off oratorical talent. I usually dislike arguments which try to denounce a source simply by pointing to its rhetorical character. This passage of Justin, however, is so rhe...
- Tue Jan 23, 2007 8:19 pm
- Forum: Book reviews
- Topic: New book by Waldemar Heckel
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2414
I guess this is the book that was previously announced as 'Blackwell's companion to Alexander the Great' in the series 'Blackwell's companions to the Ancient World'. It is certainly not a volume of conference proceedings. The book you are talking about, Amyntoros, will probably be published by Regin...
- Thu Jan 04, 2007 11:49 am
- Forum: Alexander's contemporaries
- Topic: Polyperchon and Olympias
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2217
Alexander IV and Rhoxane in Epeiros?
It comes as no surprise that you have found conflicting information on this matter, since it is debated whether Polyperchon actually sent Alexander IV and Rhoxane to Epeiros in the first place. I do not know which view finds most support in the sources and for the moment I have no time to engage wit...
- Tue Dec 12, 2006 1:12 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Is The Lighthouse An Alexander Legacy
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3661
the construction date of the Pharos
Apparently, then, wikipedia is not really reliable concerning the date of construction of the Pharos. The only sources for it are the Suda (s.v. Pharos) which says it was built in 297 (the year Pyrrhos returned to Epirus) and Eusebius' Chronicle, dating it in 283/2. P.M. Fraser ( Ptolemaic Alexandri...
- Thu Dec 07, 2006 3:13 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Is The Lighthouse An Alexander Legacy
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3661
building the lighthouse
The lighthouse in Alexandria was built by Sostratos of Knidos, a Friend of Ptolemy. The construction probably started in 297 BC and it was (also probably) finished in 282 BC. Not much is known about its construction, so we don't know whose idea it was. It might have been Ptolemy's or Sostratos'. I s...
- Wed Aug 30, 2006 10:09 am
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Did Alexander CONTRIVE the mutiny at the Hyphasis?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 12231
- Wed May 31, 2006 11:13 am
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Language diffusion in Asia
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3626
Hi Dean and Paralus, Transport and communication probably did play their part, but we should not loose sight of the time perspective. Alexander's empire was built 2300 years ago, while the British empire is in comparison quite young. After all, Greek was the main language in the east of the Roman Em...
- Fri Apr 21, 2006 12:02 pm
- Forum: Book reviews
- Topic: Book: Alexander the Great and the Iranian World
- Replies: 15
- Views: 6084
Brill's New Jacoby
just received Brill's Classical Studies E-Bulletin. Apparently there will also be an online version of Brill's New Jacoby: Announcing a NEW ONLINE REFERENCE WORK: BrillGÇÖs New Jacoby --The NEW standard reference work on the Greek historical fragments. Brill will shortly be announcing a new forthcom...