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The inscription says: "To the hero Hephaestion from Diogenes"... 4) Diogenes, who dedicated the relief, was, most probably one of the 10.000 veterans of Crateros who made it back to Macedonia Of course Diogenes is a perfectly familiar Greek name, just as “Smith”, or “Tailor” or “Baker” or...

Hi all!! The text that follows was posted by me in a more "fans-of-literature" yahoo group but I thought it deserved a re - post here as I think you may find it interesting as well. I am sure that you are all aware of the inscribed Hephaestion relief located in Pella Museum. This relief is...

Hi all! I don't know whether or not any of you know this yet but I recently learned that there will be an opening of a huge Alexander exhibition on the Louvre the October to come titled: "Inside Alexander the Great's kingdom - The ancient Macedonia". :D The exhibition will be open from Oct...

System1988, Just out of curiosity, what is average pricetag on these copies? The official and unofficial? Is there a big difference in cost because someone buys an official copy rather than an unofficial one? Im sure there is some difference. But id just like to know if its a substantial one. And a...

Systen1988, I always understood that in Greek tourist shops you could differentiate museum replicas by the metal seal attached. However, when you are young, don't have much money, and can't get to the museum shops, cheap tourist replicas seem wonderful, and I still love mine! Same thing applies whe...

In Greek museum shops they sell casts of the Pella head, Akropolis head, Olympia head, Pella statuette, the little heads from the tomb of Philip, the relief with Hephaistion. These don't appear to be available online, but courtesy of the wonderful system1988 I have just acquired full-sized replicas...

In Greek museum shops they sell casts of the Pella head, Akropolis head, Olympia head, Pella statuette, the little heads from the tomb of Philip, the relief with Hephaistion. These don't appear to be available online, but courtesy of the wonderful system1988 I have just acquired full-sized replicas...

The only time I've ever read anything that has to do with Philip of Macedon has come from our sources on Alexander. Is there any other source not involving Alexander that would have information on Philip? Something contemporary to Philips time or within a few hundred years of his death? The two mai...

And about the inscription,.. Alexander refrained from using the words "King Alexander" and instead chose to use, "Alexander, son of Philip". I think that says a lot about how he wanted the Greeks to see him. Less the tyrant, more the Leader. It probably seemed more paletable to ...

Marcus said: An intriguing question. The reason why I doubt that it had anything specifically to do with Leonidas is the fact that the panoplies were sent to the Athenians. I think that he could not have sent the armors to Sparta either way. He sent them to Athens who was Spartas greatest arch rival...

Dear all From lilies and battles, ankles and grovels great generals and kings as well as angry kids with knifes, behold the stone tablet that is worth as much as hundreds of literal sources: I have finally managed to upload it!! Risking the activation of the site's auto- correction systems because o...

Well, Alexander seems to have had an international fame as an extremely elegant man. I imagine a table of his full of perfumes and him applying the perfumes of the king Abdalonymus and thinking "hmm excelent, this fits for my drinking party tonight!"

I would like to report to all of you about the existence of an bilingual inscription from Kos island (Aegean Sea). I do not know whether this has been posted already or if some of you may already know about what I am going to say. Its rarity made it impossible for me to resist posting it here. I unf...

http://www.archaeology.org/online/features/alexander/tomb.html try this link; it ought to calm your fears of conspiracy. The only foul play is the nonsense spoken by this damned woman. :twisted: I agree with the text your link led to. Conspiracy for what though? In case the tomb of Alexander the Gr...

Even if I have already been a part of some topics in this forum I think that I have forgotten the fact that I have not introduced myself to you! My line of work may concern handling of antiquities but what I believe that characterizes me is my passion and love for ancient history English is not my n...