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- Wed Jun 12, 2019 4:16 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: ATG Geography: WHERE IS NORA? + FORCED MARCHES
- Replies: 80
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Re: ATG Geography: WHERE IS NORA? + FORCED MARCHES
Also, I agree with Xenophon that the location of Thapsacus is very much unknown. That is another area which won't be safe for scholarly ramblers for a good long time, but at least until the site is found nobody can loot it into a crater-field. As Agesilaos said, maps, even in scholarly books by univ...
- Wed Jun 12, 2019 3:58 pm
- Forum: Comments, help, suggestions etc
- Topic: New website
- Replies: 3
- Views: 13958
Re: New website
That is OK Alexias, just one step at a time!
I will be making some changes to my own site, I want a static site to go with the blog and I want to move off Automattic's servers.
I will be making some changes to my own site, I want a static site to go with the blog and I want to move off Automattic's servers.
- Wed Jun 12, 2019 3:54 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: ATG Geography: WHERE IS NORA? + FORCED MARCHES
- Replies: 80
- Views: 42336
Re: ATG Geography: WHERE IS NORA? + FORCED MARCHES
Apropos of nothing I see that the Ancient World Mapping Center has a (script-heavy!) map of where Duane Roller thinks Nora was. She has just published a commentary to Strabo's Geography. http://awmc.unc.edu/awmc/applications/strabo/ I find the Barrington Atlas of the Classical World and Der Neue Pau...
- Thu Apr 04, 2019 6:59 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Map of Alexander's campaign in Balkans
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4743
Re: Map of Alexander's campaign in Balkans
I am glad you found them! Hammond loved rambling about that area, sometimes with a Sten gun and sometimes with a collection of archaeology books and notepads. And maps are expensive to design. Another reason to wish we had the first two books of Curtius! He probably had a detailed narrative with the...
- Thu Mar 28, 2019 10:30 pm
- Forum: 'Off-topic' forum
- Topic: Two views on Sparta and the Laconians
- Replies: 2
- Views: 5084
Re: Two views on Sparta and the Laconians
Also, in case Rahe stumbles over this thread ... the review is very critical, but it seems that it can't point to errors of fact , and that because it is so accusatory it describes points of disagreement clearly which another reviewer might mush behind vague words. Whether its charges are fair is so...
- Thu Mar 28, 2019 2:55 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Armenian Alexander Romance translation
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3739
Re: Armenian Alexander Romance translation
I am glad you found it helpful! We tend to forget about Armenia because their glory days were a bit late for classical history and a bit far away from the stories we tell about medieval and modern history, and because so many of them ended up living in other countries (remember when Cilicia was Less...
- Thu Mar 28, 2019 12:02 pm
- Forum: 'Off-topic' forum
- Topic: Two views on Sparta and the Laconians
- Replies: 2
- Views: 5084
Two views on Sparta and the Laconians
I think that this review by Donald Lateiner of Paul Rahe, The Spartan Regime: Its Character, Origins, and Grand Strategy (2016) talks about the main ways scholars disagree about how to study early Greece (including thinly-recorded places like Macedonia before Philip): should we rely on contemporary,...
- Sun Dec 23, 2018 2:05 pm
- Forum: 'Off-topic' forum
- Topic: Armed Force in the Teispid-Achaemenid Empire
- Replies: 1
- Views: 4718
Armed Force in the Teispid-Achaemenid Empire
For good or bad, my doctoral dissertation on the armies of the Achaemenids is now available for download at http://diglib.uibk.ac.at/urn:nbn:at:at-ubi:1-30064 I do not have much to say about the armies of Artaxerxes III and Darius III, because the sources are so poor, but I do have one question wher...
- Thu Nov 15, 2018 1:41 pm
- Forum: The Diadochi
- Topic: Battle of Magnesia
- Replies: 55
- Views: 115245
Re: Battle of Magnesia
Probably, you would have to ask him. The version I heard was in a lecture, I don't know how it relates to the things he has already published and whether he plans to turn it into an article. Here is the abstract https://www.uibk.ac.at/zentrum-alte-kulturen/veranstaltungen/vafolder2018/20181113stroot...
- Wed Nov 14, 2018 10:01 am
- Forum: The Diadochi
- Topic: Battle of Magnesia
- Replies: 55
- Views: 115245
Re: Battle of Magnesia
Rolf Strootman has a theory that this might have something to do with Antiochus adopting the Greek title basileus megas and a decision to re-organize the outer parts of the empire as a network of tributary kings rather than governors ... I am not sure that I follow all the details (there are signs t...
- Tue Nov 06, 2018 11:09 pm
- Forum: The Diadochi
- Topic: Battle of Magnesia
- Replies: 55
- Views: 115245
Re: Battle of Magnesia
Also, I come at this as an Achaemenid historian, and the Achaemenids never acknowledged the loss of Egypt any more than the Chinese Communist Party acknowledges that they do not control Taiwan. They (or their governors) signed treaties about the cities upon the sea with Athens, but that was not any ...
- Tue Nov 06, 2018 10:29 pm
- Forum: The Diadochi
- Topic: Battle of Magnesia
- Replies: 55
- Views: 115245
Re: Battle of Magnesia
It is also frustrating because this seems to be the time when trade between China and the west around the Taklamakan Desert was just opening up. There is no trace in the Achaemenid period, although the graves at Pazyryk have goods from China and goods from the King's lands, and then by the second ce...
- Sat Nov 03, 2018 12:49 pm
- Forum: The Diadochi
- Topic: Battle of Magnesia
- Replies: 55
- Views: 115245
Re: Battle of Magnesia
During the Ionian War in the time of Darius II. It was in an otherwise good book too, but whenever I try to borrow it to search for the phrase I am looking for it is out. Anyways, needing a new model navy explains why he attracted military consultants like Hannibal, and it makes the picture of him a...
- Fri Nov 02, 2018 4:58 pm
- Forum: The Diadochi
- Topic: Battle of Magnesia
- Replies: 55
- Views: 115245
Re: Battle of Magnesia
As I flip through Polybius and Michael Taylor's life of Antiochos, I am struck by how moderately he handled his anabasis to the upper satrapies. He was ruthless in liquidating Molon and Achaeus, and must have hoped to conquer Bactria, but when Fortune turned against him he entered into negotiations,...
- Tue Oct 30, 2018 4:16 pm
- Forum: Book reviews
- Topic: The Persian Empire A History by Lindsay Allen
- Replies: 7
- Views: 17559
Re: The Persian Empire A History by Lindsay Allen
You are welcome Alexias! I do not know the sources on the Bagoas who was very close to Alexander well, but she might also have been thinking of stories in Herodotus and the book of Esther about the Persians taking young men and women to become eunuchs and concubines. I would like to read some of Mar...