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- Sun Feb 25, 2024 10:06 pm
- Forum: Alexander Sources
- Topic: Polyaenus #5 Lysimachus, Craterus, Polysperchon, Ptolemy, Attalus
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Polyaenus #5 Lysimachus, Craterus, Polysperchon, Ptolemy, Attalus
Polyaenus Stratagems of War Translated by E. Shepherd. F.R.S. Unchanged reprint of the Edition: London 1793. Ares Publishers, Inc. 4.12 Lysimachus [1] Lysimachus apprehensive lest the Autariatae, who had been plundered of their baggage in an engagement with Demetrius, barbarians as they were*, and ...
- Sun Feb 25, 2024 9:58 pm
- Forum: Alexander Sources
- Topic: Polyaenus #4 Eumenes, Seleucus, Perdiccas, Cassander
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Polyaenus #4 Eumenes, Seleucus, Perdiccas, Cassander
Polyaenus Stratagems of War Translated by E. Shepherd. F.R.S. Unchanged reprint of the Edition: London 1793. Ares Publishers, Inc. 4.8 Eumenes (1) Eumenes, closely pursued by the Galatians, and at the same time so indisposed in health, as to be carried on a litter, when he found it impracticable to...
- Fri Feb 23, 2024 9:48 am
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Dionysius of Halikarnassos
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Re: Dionysius of Halikarnassos
Hegesias of Magnesia (a rhetorician founder of 'asianism', a flowery literary current) lived in III century B.C., Dionysius of Halikarnassos (who supported 'atticism' an opposite literary current) in I cent. B.C. Therefore Dionysius quoted Hegesias. Thanks, hiphys. I should have worked it out for m...
- Thu Feb 22, 2024 8:27 pm
- Forum: Alexander Sources
- Topic: Polyaenus #3 Antipater, Parmenio, Antigonus, Demetrius
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Polyaenus #3 Antipater, Parmenio, Antigonus, Demetrius
Polyaenus Stratagems of War Translated by E. Shepherd. F.R.S. Unchanged reprint of the Edition: London 1793. Ares Publishers, Inc. 4.4 Antipater (1) Antipater, in the Thracian war, having advanced into the country of the Tetrachoritae, ordered fire to be set to the horses’ hay, which lay before his...
- Wed Feb 21, 2024 11:52 am
- Forum: Alexander Sources
- Topic: Polyaenus #2 Alexander
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Polyaenus #2 Alexander
Polyaenus Stratagems of War Translated by E. Shepherd. F.R.S. Unchanged reprint of the Edition: London 1793. Ares Publishers, Inc. Polyaenus. Stratagems of War 4.3 Alexander (1) Alexander whose ambition was, to unite all mankind to him, as the common head and superior of human nature, passed a decr...
- Tue Feb 20, 2024 7:18 pm
- Forum: Art and Culture
- Topic: Egyptian blue paint on the Parthenon
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- Tue Feb 20, 2024 8:50 am
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Dionysius of Halikarnassos
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2354
Re: Dionysius of Halikarnassos
BTW, I wasn't sure from the original Alexander sources website whether it was Dionysius quoting Hegesias, or the other way round.
- Mon Feb 19, 2024 10:48 pm
- Forum: Alexander Sources
- Topic: Polyaenus #1 Pan, Philip
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Polyaenus #1 Pan, Philip
Polyaenus Stratagems of War Translated by E. Shepherd. F.R.S. Unchanged reprint of the Edition: London 1793. Ares Publishers, Inc. Polyaenus. Stratagems of War 1.2 Pan Pan, a general under Bacchus, was the first who reduced to a regular system the marshalling of an army: he invented the phalanx, an...
- Mon Feb 19, 2024 6:58 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Dionysius of Halikarnassos
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2354
Re: Dionysius of Halikarnassos
Marcus! Welome back!
- Sun Feb 18, 2024 9:25 pm
- Forum: Alexander Sources
- Topic: Valerius Maximus: Memorable Doings and Sayings #2
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Valerius Maximus: Memorable Doings and Sayings #2
Valerius Maximus Edited and Translated by D. R. Shackleton Bailey The Loeb Classical Library Book VII. 3. ext. 1 Things Craftily Said or Done. Alexander, king of the Macedonians, was warned by an oracle to order the first person he met after he went out of the gate to be killed. As it chanced, he m...
- Sun Feb 18, 2024 8:49 pm
- Forum: Alexander Sources
- Topic: Valerius Maximus: Memorable Doings and Sayings #1
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Valerius Maximus: Memorable Doings and Sayings #1
Valerius Maximus Edited and Translated by D. R. Shackleton Bailey The Loeb Classical Library Book I. 1. ext. 5 Of Religion (From epitomes of Julius Paris and Januarius Nepotianus.) Paris. When Miletus was taken by Alexander, Milesian Ceres met soldiers who had broken into her temple and were about ...
- Fri Feb 09, 2024 7:45 pm
- Forum: Alexander Sources
- Topic: Plutarch: The Life of Eumenes
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Plutarch: The Life of Eumenes
The Parallel Lives by Plutarch published in Vol. VIII of the Loeb Classical Library edition, 1919 1. ...After Philip's death Eumenes was thought to be inferior to none of Alexander's followers in sagacity and fidelity, and though he had only the title of chief secretary, he was held in as much hono...
- Wed Feb 07, 2024 11:35 am
- Forum: Alexander Sources
- Topic: Metrical discourse on Alexander by Jacob of Serugh
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Metrical discourse on Alexander by Jacob of Serugh
A discourse composed by Mar Jacob upon Alexander, the Believing King, and upon the Gate which he made against Agog and Magog Through thee, O splendour of the father, I begin to Speak By Whose victory the righteous have been victorious in their wars. In love, O Lord, give me speech from Thy doctrine...
- Sun Feb 04, 2024 10:21 pm
- Forum: Alexander the Great in the Media
- Topic: Historical Consultant on Netflix’s ‘Alexander: The Making of a God’
- Replies: 2
- Views: 322
Re: Historical Consultant on Netflix’s ‘Alexander: The Making of a God’
Ah, I thought Alexander and Hephaestion kissing in a swimming pool was familiar!
- Thu Jan 25, 2024 9:45 pm
- Forum: Alexander Sources
- Topic: Tacitus
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Tacitus
COMPLETE WORKS OF TACITUS Translated from the Latin by Alfred John Church and William Jackson Brodribb Edited, with an Introduction by Moses Hada The Modern Library, New York, 1942 Annals 2. 73 Germanicus’ Suspicious Death. His (Germanicus’) funeral, though it lacked the family statues and processi...