And it does seem as if Dionysius was not a fan!
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- Tue Feb 20, 2024 3:20 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Dionysius of Halikarnassos
- Replies: 10
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- Tue Feb 20, 2024 3:18 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Dionysius of Halikarnassos
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2411
- Mon Feb 19, 2024 2:32 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Dionysius of Halikarnassos
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2411
Re: Dionysius of Halikarnassos
I hadn't seen the Dionysius version of the story before, which it seems came originally from Hegesias of Magnesia. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, On Literary Composition, Chap 18.)
- Mon Feb 19, 2024 2:13 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Johannes of Hildesheim and Alexander
- Replies: 1
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Re: Johannes of Hildesheim and Alexander
I've never come across this before but, yes, having now searched for a copy of the text there it is: Capitulum xxjm.
Great find!
Great find!
- Wed Aug 20, 2014 10:10 am
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: The Sphinxes Guarding the Lion Tomb Entrance at Amphipolis
- Replies: 1585
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Re: The Sphinxes Guarding the Lion Tomb Entrance at Amphipol
Yes, Aristonous should be on the list, which is not exhaustive, a poll would just be a way of nailing something to a putative mast and seeing if the cat licks it. Sounds like a good idea, Agesilaos. I shall have to find out how to set up a poll! :D Leave it with me, and I'll see what I can do. (See...
- Fri Aug 15, 2014 2:17 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Yet ANOTHER potential tomb...
- Replies: 24
- Views: 11956
Re: Yet ANOTHER potential tomb...
Allow people their dreams, dear Paralus ...Paralus wrote:Oh dear..
- Wed Aug 13, 2014 5:46 pm
- Forum: Book reviews
- Topic: My historical novel SHADOW OF THE LION is now published
- Replies: 6
- Views: 7971
Re: My historical novel SHADOW OF THE LION is now published
My novel SHADOW OF THE LION: Blood on the Moon (Volume One) is now available on Amazon and soon in book stores. My historical fiction novel is now available on Amazon and soon in book stores: http://www.amazon.com/SHADOW-OF-THE-LION-BLOOD/dp/0992715512/ref=sr_1_fkmr1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1407528500&am...
- Fri Jul 25, 2014 11:15 pm
- Forum: Alexander's contemporaries
- Topic: How did Bagoas (Alexander's lover) die?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 6820
Re: How did Bagoas (Alexander's lover) die?
Indeed.agesilaos wrote:NO; in Curtius and Plutarch he is Alexander's sex toy, as he had been Dareios', Nabarzanes makes the relationship quite plain.
- Sat Jun 07, 2014 6:52 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Marakanda/Afrosiab photos.
- Replies: 28
- Views: 15304
Re: Marakanda/Afrosiab photos.
At the time I went they hadn't exposed much of the walls, but there was a lovely cross-section excavation in the side of the 'acropolis'. I'll have to dig out some of my photos ...ATB When did you go? I wonder when the palace walls were exposed. Does the photo (in the link I provided) of the palace...
- Fri Jun 06, 2014 8:15 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Marakanda/Afrosiab photos.
- Replies: 28
- Views: 15304
Re: Marakanda/Afrosiab photos.
Thanks Marcus. Glad you got there too. Going through my photos and then comparing them to images found on google, I realised that although I went to Afrosiab, I did not go to the palace. How could I have missed it?! It's the only standing structure surrounded by nothing but flat sandy terrain for m...
- Thu Jun 05, 2014 9:12 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Marakanda/Afrosiab photos.
- Replies: 28
- Views: 15304
Re: Marakanda/Afrosiab photos.
Hi Hando, I'm glad you were able to find Afrosiab! I went there back in 2009, and enjoyed a wonderful couple of hours in the ruined citadel - it was very exciting to think that, somewhere amidst those ruins was the spot where Alexander killed Cleitus! (Assuming they were in the citadel and not in ca...
- Thu May 01, 2014 11:14 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Another Finding of Alexander's Tomb?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4808
Re: Another Finding of Alexander's Tomb?
A lady on Alexander's Army says the picture is of the Catacombs of Kom el Shoqafa. She is due to visit Alexandria soon and is hoping to visit the site and give us some news. I can confirm that it most definitely is of the catacombs of Kom el Shoqafa. Here's my photo of the same place, taken in 2003...
- Tue Apr 08, 2014 7:39 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Alexander the Great: Beginning the Campaign
- Replies: 37
- Views: 22486
Re: Alexander the Great: Beginning the Campaign
I wouldn't recommend it even for a thirteen-year-old.Kahiel wrote:Is it really THAT bad?LJLJ wrote:Please don't read Manferdi¡s, unless you are 13
It's *terrible*. And I mean T-E-R-R-I-B-L-E!
- Sun Apr 06, 2014 3:36 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Alexander the Great: Beginning the Campaign
- Replies: 37
- Views: 22486
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: 22486
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...