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To further what Marcus said, which I agree with... Judging by what happened on Alexander's death, I don't know that even having a 10,11, or 12 year old Argead in the wings would have prevented the scramble for empire that rolled across it. The Diadochi, freed from the backwater of Macedonia and havi...

If the only surviving texts dealing with the United States in the late 90's to this day were say some tome from Ann Coulter and another by Jimmy Carter (I'm not remembering all the books, Carter hasn't necessarily written about American politics or George Bush or Obama or Clinton... Well if the only...

Thank you amyntoros for the wonderful post. LJ's article was great. This: But at Stone's insistence Roxane's headdress was further augmented with an anachronistic crown of flowering lotus buds replicated from the headdress of Quen Pu-abi of Sumer which he had seen during an early research trip to th...

I agree with agesilaos. One other thing, and not to tread too closely to the forbidden subject, the blanket statement that "Greeks" did this or that leaves out the fact that Macedonians did a lot of things that Greeks didn't do (as though the Greeks were all exactly alike anyway) or differ...

This is a most interesting conversation... The only thing I would contribute at this point is that I thought the men named, including Bagoas, were named a trierarch as a more symbolic gesture...and that these men had funded the boat they were named trierarch for... And this, Bagoas may not have have...

Can someone direct me to some good information on where this might have happened? And when? The monsoons were over, I believe and they don't usually reach that region anyway. I do know of the "Western Disturbance", a weather pattern that originates much further west, from the Med, even the...

The approved style (conveniently slung from a peg via your leather tasselled sword belt or balteus ) is properly indicated by this ancient representation: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EfoAZf8wIpQ/So7NtBXjWwI/AAAAAAAAA9s/Orf28lcRyAM/s400/Casques+Tombe+de+Lyson+et+Kallikles.jpg Please do not forget to p...

Maybe that ass hoof was real after all.

Well wherever you stand on him...seems he did gain that eternal glory he wanted. It's 2332* years since his death. Countries go at each like idiots over his legacy, and scholars certainly can't decide who he was.

*I'm not a math whiz.

Here's an article where Borza discusses it. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/04/080423-alexander-great_2.html The wife that Olympias murdered was Cleopatra/Eurydike..a thoroughly Macedonian girl. Who was killed with her child (though whether it was a boy or a girl seems to be quite in qu...

Semiramis wrote:'Rome' was very enjoyable. I thought it finished too soon as well. Although, I don't know if the reign of Augustus would have been as exciting as the Ceasar-Antony-Cleopatra saga.

I'm sure that the scandalous Julia could have supplied enough sex for the series.

Ruthaki...that's interesting that the Persephone tomb would be considered for Eurydike. If memory serves, there were the remains of a man, a woman and an infant, the last not something I'd associate with a mature woman, but I certainly could be wrong.. I was reading something somewhere where Borza a...

Ruthaki, are you referring to the tomb with the free standing columns that has been nearly destroyed?

Or the tomb with the painting of the rape of Persephone on the wall? The one many believe is the actual tomb of Philip?

But in watching The Tudors...I am left with this, "When will Henry get fat?"... :D The answer? Apparently never. But the costumes and sets are lush. I never managed to get into The Tudors - wasn't able to watch all the episodes, so gave up. I can't remember when it was that Henry did begi...

I don't love Alexander. I am fascinated by him and his period, though. "Where" did I meet him? An anime series from the 90's. So off the wall I had to read up on him...and I completely lost interest in my old direction. About the same time I came across the literature on the Vergina tombs....