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- Sun Apr 06, 2014 3:36 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Alexander the Great: Beginning the Campaign
- Replies: 37
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Re: Alexander the Great: Beginning the Campaign
I agree with Nikas on Ellis, a really good book, for the Macedonian background I would add Eugene Borza's 'In the Shadow of Olympus' and Malcolm Errington's 'History of Macedonia' which packs alot into its 300 pages, it would be churlish not to mention N G L Hammond's 'The Macedonian State' but he ...
- Fri Apr 04, 2014 8:26 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Alexander the Great: Beginning the Campaign
- Replies: 37
- Views: 22062
Re: Alexander the Great: Beginning the Campaign
Though..true. It's a shame that there's no preview. I would have liked to see even at least a few pages of it. To me, even if Ptolemy has no reputation as a stylist as Agesilaos had stated....the fact it's an account made by one of Alexander's companions makes all the difference to me. Though I'm c...
- Thu Apr 03, 2014 9:12 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Alexander the Great: Beginning the Campaign
- Replies: 37
- Views: 22062
Re: Alexander the Great: Beginning the Campaign
Actually, even fiction is hard to find. Last I found was Manfredi's. From a personal point of view, I would strongly suggest not touching Manfredi's books with a barge-pole. I am constantly disappointed by fictional accounts of Alexander - in fact, I can't remember a single one since Mary Renault t...
- Wed Apr 02, 2014 9:16 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Alexander the Great: Beginning the Campaign
- Replies: 37
- Views: 22062
Re: Alexander the Great: Beginning the Campaign
Then I'll be sure to look up Marcus' suggestion. Finding them is the only problem. Lane Fox's version has long been gone from bookstores here. I've searched every bookstore in the vicinity that I can find. Through ebooks I managed to find the psuedo-Callisthenes version and I'm wondering if that's ...
- Mon Mar 31, 2014 7:12 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Alexander the Great: Beginning the Campaign
- Replies: 37
- Views: 22062
Re: Alexander the Great: Beginning the Campaign
And if you get the Loeb edition you get the Greek and a mass of essays by P A Brunt , the Landmark edition has good accompanying essays, the Penguin has a rather free translation and little supporting material but is cheap :D I would always suggest that the Penguin translation is the better startin...
- Mon Mar 31, 2014 7:10 pm
- Forum: Alexander's contemporaries
- Topic: Conspiracy against Philotas By Waldemar Heckel
- Replies: 42
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Re: Conspiracy against Philotas By Waldemar Heckel
Cleitus sort of went a little further than you'd suggest with that extended hand and the comments about Alexander's pretense toward being deemed a god. But the belittling of Philip was perhaps one of the more interesting bits that came out here. And that this strange condescension against his own f...
- Sun Mar 30, 2014 9:02 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Alexander the Great: Beginning the Campaign
- Replies: 37
- Views: 22062
Re: Alexander the Great: Beginning the Campaign
Welcome, Kahiel. I agree with Hypaspist's suggestion, although I would add that you really can't do worse than to read the ancient sources - you have Plutarch, but get a copy of Arrian's Anabasis as well. After that you should read the other sources, but if you're just starting on your Alexandrian j...
- Sun Mar 30, 2014 9:00 pm
- Forum: Alexander's contemporaries
- Topic: Conspiracy against Philotas By Waldemar Heckel
- Replies: 42
- Views: 51336
Re: Conspiracy against Philotas By Waldemar Heckel
Loyalty would still have counted, had he been disloyal, or even suspected, Kleitos could have gone the way of Parmenion and Philotas; though, just maybe the fact that he was Philotas' natural replacement ensured that he was of a totally different Court Faction, the Antipatrids' perhaps since his mu...
- Sun Mar 30, 2014 1:29 pm
- Forum: Alexander's contemporaries
- Topic: Conspiracy against Philotas By Waldemar Heckel
- Replies: 42
- Views: 51336
Re: Conspiracy against Philotas By Waldemar Heckel
It should also be remembered that Kleitos was the ilarch of the senior squadron, the ile basilike, making him next in rank to Philotas and his most likely successor; it is frequently said that his appointment was a sop to the Old Guard but it seems more likely that Hephaistion's was intended to mit...
- Fri Mar 28, 2014 7:31 pm
- Forum: Alexander's contemporaries
- Topic: Conspiracy against Philotas By Waldemar Heckel
- Replies: 42
- Views: 51336
Re: Conspiracy against Philotas By Waldemar Heckel
Though, in Alexander's defense, replacing Philotas with Cleitus the Black (Hep not withstanding) was still putting another member of the old guard back in charge of the Companions. One wonders just how greatly the whole program suffered strategically, tactically, and logistically as a result of thi...
- Thu Mar 27, 2014 7:58 pm
- Forum: Alexander's contemporaries
- Topic: Conspiracy against Philotas By Waldemar Heckel
- Replies: 42
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Re: Conspiracy against Philotas By Waldemar Heckel
A few years older and already working with his father and Philip. The interesting aspect of this conjecture is that Philotas would have had already some expertise and perhaps specialism in militaristic matters but without a formal education. Thus, groomed for military life solely and completely whi...
- Mon Mar 24, 2014 7:33 pm
- Forum: Alexander's contemporaries
- Topic: Conspiracy against Philotas By Waldemar Heckel
- Replies: 42
- Views: 51336
Re: Conspiracy against Philotas By Waldemar Heckel
Does anybody know whether or not Philotas, or any of Parmenion's sons, were taught at Mieza by Aristotle? As far as I recall, without running upstairs to my library, we have no certain identification of any of the students with Alexander at Mieza. We can make a few assumptions, based on comments ab...
- Tue Mar 18, 2014 8:56 pm
- Forum: Alexander's contemporaries
- Topic: Parmenion, Paeonian chief?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 9562
Re: Parmenion, Paeonian chief?
'Paul Cartledge runs the whole gamut of Alexander scholarship, from A to B!' to paraphrase... :roll: As Dorothy Parker would have said ... :D I wonder how far it could be called a "by-product", however, as it must have been written before the film was released. (The film was released in 2...
- Mon Mar 17, 2014 8:23 pm
- Forum: Alexander's contemporaries
- Topic: Parmenion, Paeonian chief?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 9562
Re: Parmenion, Paeonian chief?
Marcus, thank you for the "warning" about Worthington's book on Alexander. I was considering taking this book in the library but now I think I am going to skip this reading. I'm glad I have it in my library, but I really don't think it's a particularly good book, and rather too hysterical...
- Sat Mar 15, 2014 7:35 pm
- Forum: Alexander's contemporaries
- Topic: Parmenion, Paeonian chief?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 9562
Re: Parmenion, Paeonian chief?
From some of your former comments it seems that Worthington considers the Upper Macedonians non-Macedonian, this is b#ll#cks, of course, I have not got this book but was not impressed with his Alexander; I will have to check in J R Ellis' "Philip IIand Macedonian Imperialism" which did im...