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A very thoughtful, and logical analysis of the matter. Thank you for posting the link....

Amyntoros, I'm not being critical of the way the forum has traditionally gone, merely expressing a preference with Sean, for the reasons I indicated. A good example of how a long rambling thread can make finding stuff hard is the "Sphinxes" thread......have you tried reading the whole thin...

I think that the decline in posting had something to do with all the arguments and very long threads. Some people enjoy that but its not my cup of tea. As that other place became uncomfortable to people who were more interested in Greeks than Romans, I moved to chats with my academic colleagues, an...

Amyntoros wrote: Turns out that it is a small, early Hellenistic terracotta relief dated late 3rd to early 2nd century, one of four which were probably attached to a large funerary jar, and it is at the Metropolitan Museum here in New York. Link here for further info. At the risk of being pedantic, ...

Just to put rather futile speculation about the skeletal remains to bed, it should be recalled that skeletal remains, especially partial ones, tell us very little about a tomb and its occupants, original and subsequent - not even which is which. A tomb like Kasta which remained open for many years m...

Taphoi wrote: On Xenophon's remark about bull sacrifice being a Roman period practice at the Sanctuary of the Great Gods on Samothrace, the written mentions are apparently Roman, but that does not mean that it did not also take place in earlier periods. Several times now the frieze showing bulls gar...

Taphoi wrote: Unfortunately they have not taken the further logical step that certain combinations of characters or creatures are much more likely than others and characters and creatures tend to appear in certain types of ornament and dress. ( and of course identifying attributes.) A most interesti...

I think so.....I was simply supplying factual information on the illustration, which is in fact a piece of equipment worn by a man rather than an animal. Similar crescent shapes and discs called 'phalera' were often worn as military decorations by men, and also on horse harness by Roman and Celtic c...

I see I am a little slow out of the blocks with representations, due to time zones! The picture below is a wall painting from Pompeii of a girl picking flowers, believed to be a copy or inspired by Hellenistic wall painting. In my mind's eye, when I look at the 'Rohrschach inkblot' that is the girl ...

Amyntoros wrote: And, quite frankly, those hips and rear end are worthy of Kim Kardashian. Not exactly the image one would want to present of an elderly, religious queen, wife of one of Macedonia's greatest kings and mother of the other. Certainly not in her own tomb! Moreover would one portray &quo...

Post by agesilaos » Fri Jan 22, 2016 9:55 pm Xenophon:Your first error in your basis of calculation is that a ‘regnal year’ begins with the King’s actual date of accession.( imagine the chaos with every King's 'regnal years' being different! ) In fact a ‘regnal year’ always co-incided with the actua...

The following two posts were ones I made back at the beginning of February in response to the above by Agesilaos, but on recently re-reading this thread it appears that for some reason - probably technical - they didn't make it onto the site......... Agesilaos Fri Jan 22 2016 I should not have to ex...

Zebedee wrote: Not sure that's quite right to be honest. Typically they're labelled as 'priestesses', but there are a number of examples I can think of where women are involved in elements of ritual around a bull - whether placing garlands on necks, or making a libation, or generally being involved ...

Taphoi wrote: agesilaos wrote: The Nike of Samothrace dates to c.200 BC dated from shards beneath its base; it, however lacked a trumpet and, of course has no connection with the Mysteries of Samothrace beyond the geographical coincidence. It is in fact still disputed whether the Nike of Samothrace ...

.....or perhaps more accurately, the 'fictional history' shelves. :lol: :lol: ....generally historical fiction is based on known history, which it sticks to, and fills in the unknown gaps with fiction in order to produce a coherent account. Taphoi's versions on the other hand simply 'make up' the su...