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This is a subject that has been discussed often here, the latest being http://www.pothos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=5293. You could try reading Andrew's book, https://www.amazon.co.uk/Lost-Tomb-Alex ... 1902699629

Alexander did not enter Susa until two years after capturing the Persian Royal family. Sisygambis and the children of Darius cannot therefore have been 'left behind' at Susa while Statira accompanied Alexander. They were left behind at Susa because Darius was dead and Alexander had no further use f...

One of my points is to show that we should not apply our own standards, but rather those of the time, to determine if Alexander was ‘good’ or ‘bad’, or neither.......” Yet the whole point of your posts is that you are judging Alexander by modern standards. But that does not by any means make Alexan...

Which city is it in? There's a map of Alexandria here http://megalexandros.livejournal.com/61806.html, but no Alexander's harbour.

Question: where did he get the invading troops from? Were they rebels, foreign mercenaries or some other city's army? Maybe he had to spend time getting the funds for this army, drumming up support, persuading some tyrant or city to back his move. Just guessing.

This might be the link to the original post on the subject you meant http://www.pothos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1639&p=13765&hilit=no+more+worlds+to+conquer#p13765 . (You need to put the web address between the two sets of square brackets). Any way you look at it, the quote makes Al...

I hope Delos won't mind me passing this link on, but following her recent trip to Greece she has posted lots of excellent photos of various Alexander places and other sites here https://www.facebook.com/Modern-Geograp ... 881417395/.

I think you might be thinking of the crossing of the Hindu Kush into central Asia. They ran out of grain and had to slaughter the pack animals. In Michael wood's documentary 'In the Footsteps of..' I think he said that they ate the meat raw (because they were above the tree line and so had no wood t...

Thank you, Pauline. Alexander was also accused of being too feminine, apparently by his parents - even more reason to hide the real nature of his relationship with Hephaestion if he felt it would impair his military reputation. I am less certain than you that Amphipolis is Hephaestion's tomb, but if...

Jeanne, I specifically said I was commenting on the blog, not the podcasts. but I did read your blog here http://www.achillesgene.com/blog/alexander-hephaestion-lovers#commenting=about Alexander and Hephaestion's relationship. Having commented on the blog, which was about why Alexander and Hephaesti...

Thank you for your condescension. My apologies for forgetting anyone other than an expert was entitled to express an opinion.

I haven't had time to listen to these podcasts yet, but I did read your blog here http://www.achillesgene.com/blog/alexander-hephaestion-lovers#commenting= about Alexander and Hephaestion's relationship. For me, Hephaestion not being interested in a physical relationship with Alexander beyond adoles...

sean_m wrote:Thanks for letting us know, I see a Pothos-member among the speakers.

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I was talking to a Greek lady recently and she told me that her mother, a screen writer, was writing a book on Greek history seen from the perspective of the Mysteries. She also said that Alexander was conceived on Samothrace when his parents attended the Mysteries there. It is easy to see where thi...

I've never heard this story before. It has all the hallmarks of local apocrypha, invented later on. Alexander is known to have sent stuff back from his travels, including plants (and soil if living presumably) to Aristotle for study, and he would also have sent things to his mother, with possibly lo...