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by Alexias
Sun Mar 17, 2024 2:43 pm
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: Cheronea, a question
Replies: 7
Views: 142

Re: Cheronea, a question

I've merged the posts into two separate topics, basically the Sacred Band and the Macedonian pyre.
by Alexias
Sun Mar 17, 2024 9:38 am
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: Cheronea, a question
Replies: 7
Views: 142

Re: Cheronea, a question

I have made a start on merging some of the posts together. I will get back to it in a bit. In the meantime, instead of starting a 'new topic'for each photo, you could 'post reply' to one of your topics to group the photos together,
by Alexias
Sat Mar 16, 2024 9:26 pm
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: Cheronea, a question
Replies: 7
Views: 142

Re: Cheronea, a question

I can certainly have a try to merge some of the posts together. It will have to be tomorrow though.
by Alexias
Sat Mar 16, 2024 8:39 pm
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: Cheronea, a question
Replies: 7
Views: 142

Re: Cheronea, a question

Hi , i would like to ask Alexias and the other pothosians ,to continue posting the exhibits or has it become tiresome as a topic ? It will be followed by findings of the Macedonian funeral pyre, Macedonian and Theban weapons,a fresco from a Macedonian tomb unknown to many of us , as well some of th...
by Alexias
Thu Mar 14, 2024 8:25 pm
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: Cheronea , exhibition Athens
Replies: 12
Views: 162

Re: Cheronea 3 Exhibition , Athens

Thank you for the photos, Pauline, and I hope you enjoyed the exhibition. Tiny question. I know we've had various discussions here https://pothos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6943 and here principally https://pothos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2841 about whether Alexander led the cavalry or the phalanx a...
by Alexias
Tue Mar 12, 2024 9:40 pm
Forum: Alexander Sources
Topic: Athenaeus - Deipnosophists Book X
Replies: 0
Views: 54

Athenaeus - Deipnosophists Book X

Athenaeus - Deipnosophists Book X Book X. 423 c When, then, a large cup had been given Ulpian said: “Fill your ladle, slave, with stronger wine and pour it into my cup; not as the comic poet Antiphanes has it, who says in The Twins*: ‘He took and brought the big cup to me, and I made him pour in un...
by Alexias
Tue Mar 12, 2024 8:55 pm
Forum: Alexander Sources
Topic: Athenaeus - Deipnosophists Book IX
Replies: 0
Views: 35

Athenaeus - Deipnosophists Book IX

Athenaeus - Deipnosophists Book IX Book IX. 393 b - c The middle syllable of the name for quail is prolonged in Attic Greek, just as in doidyka (pestle) and in keryka (herald); so Demetrius Ixion states in his treatise On the Alexandrian Dialect. But Aristophanes made it short in The Peace, for the...
by Alexias
Tue Mar 12, 2024 8:51 pm
Forum: Alexander Sources
Topic: Athenaeus - Deipnosophists Book VIII
Replies: 0
Views: 35

Athenaeus - Deipnosophists Book VIII

Athenaeus - Deipnosophists Book VIII Book VIII. 334 a - b I know that Phylarchus also speaks somewhere of large fish, and green figs sent to them, by Patroclus, Ptolemy’s general, to King Antigonus by way of hinting what would happen to him, just as the Scythians did to Darius when he was invading ...
by Alexias
Tue Mar 12, 2024 8:25 pm
Forum: Alexander Sources
Topic: Athenaeus - Deipnosophists Book VII
Replies: 0
Views: 32

Athenaeus - Deipnosophists Book VII

Athenaeus - Deipnosophists Book VII Book VII. 276 f – 277 a Philip of Macedon and his son Alexander were apple-lovers, according to Dorotheus in the sixth book of his History of Alexander. And Chares of Mitylene records that Alexander, finding that the best apples were in Babylonia, filled his ship...
by Alexias
Tue Mar 12, 2024 7:47 pm
Forum: Alexander Sources
Topic: Athenaeus - Deipnosophists Book VI
Replies: 0
Views: 33

Athenaeus - Deipnosophists Book VI

Athenaeus - Deipnosophists Book VI Book VI. 223 d – e In like manner we, Timocrates, merely restore to you the morsels left by the Dinner-Sophists, we do not give them: so quotes the orator from Cothoce in his tirade against Demosthenes. He, when Philip offered to give Halonnesus to the Athenians, ...
by Alexias
Fri Mar 08, 2024 8:59 pm
Forum: Alexander Sources
Topic: Athenaeus - Deipnosophists Book V
Replies: 0
Views: 51

Athenaeus - Deipnosophists Book V

Athenaeus - Deipnosophists Book V Book V. 206 d - e With regard to the construction of the ship built by Hieron of Syracuse, which was superintended by the mathematician Archimedes, I hold it not right to be silent, since a certain Moschion has published a treatise on it which I have recently read ...
by Alexias
Fri Mar 08, 2024 8:13 pm
Forum: Alexander Sources
Topic: Athenaeus - Deipnosophists Book IV
Replies: 0
Views: 51

Athenaeus - Deipnosophists Book IV

Athenaeus - Deipnosophists Book IV Book IV. 128 c – 131 e In Macedonia, as I have already said, Caranus celebrated his marriage with a banquet at which the number of men invited to gather was twenty; no sooner had they taken their places on the couches than they were presented with silver cups, one...
by Alexias
Fri Mar 08, 2024 7:28 pm
Forum: Alexander Sources
Topic: Athenaeus - Deipnosophists Book III
Replies: 0
Views: 47

Athenaeus - Deipnosophists Book III

Athenaeus - Deipnosophists Book III Book III. 73 b - d Phylarchus says: “Never before, in any region, had Egyptian beans been sown, or, if they were, did they grow anywhere except in Egypt. But in the reign of Alexander, son of Pyrrhus, it chanced that they sprang up in a swamp near the Thyamis riv...
by Alexias
Fri Mar 08, 2024 7:18 pm
Forum: Alexander Sources
Topic: Athenaeus - Deipnosophists Book II
Replies: 0
Views: 49

Athenaeus - Deipnosophists Book II

Athenaeus - Deipnosophists Book I Book II. 42 f. In the dominion of Carthage there is a well in which the water at the top is like oil, but of a darker hue; they skim this off in globules and use it for sheep and cattle. Among other people also occur springs with a similar oiliness, like the one in...
by Alexias
Tue Mar 05, 2024 10:24 pm
Forum: Art and Culture
Topic: Ancient Greek music
Replies: 2
Views: 240

Ancient Greek music

There was a programme on BBC 4 last night about, mainly, ancient Greek music. For anyone with access to BBC iplayer, you may be able to catch it on there, or perhaps it will turn up on PBS America. It was called Discovering the Music of Antiquity. Anyway, a small piece of folder papyrus was found in...