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thanks for the advice. I suspected something like this but you summary is apprecicated. i'll look up the suggested topic as well.

Thanks again, Agesilaos. A bit more expensive on Amazon where I live (Canada) but new paperbacks still more or less affordable.

agesilaos wrote:although he does take Arrian's month's at face value

- sorry, what do you mean by that?

Thanks, Agesilaos. I see that you prefer to teach how to fish instead of giving me a fish already caught.

I still didn't buy Engels' Logistics, looks like your comment is going to be the last drop and I have to open my purse for yet another expense on Alexander.

Dear members of Pothos: I am looking for information about the timing of Alexander's army being at Nysa. According to Arrian, it happen before the battle of Hydaspes, so I presume visit to Nysa takes place between end of 327 and beginning of 326. Is a more precise timing known? And, on a general not...

hiphys wrote:No wonder Alexander declared only three people were licensed to portrait himself: Lysippos, Apelles, and Pyrgoteles, and this bronze isn't Lysippean at all.

I am very partial to Leochares and wish his statues of Alexander survived!

I thank everybody so much for such an interesting discussion. I followed it with great interest and it was very educational for me. Reading most of the posts I was vividly reminded of the age old adagio - be careful what you wish for, because I never anticipated, asking my question, to get these kin...

Two preserved corpses hardly constitute a culture of preserving the dead. Agesilaos is only preserved because he is a King, Alexander goes one better by being a God; Hephaistion was neither. I think because Hephaistion was declared a Hero by Siwa Oracle (the same Oracle that declared Alexander a go...

The King was intensely grieved at [Hephaistion’s death] and entrusted his body to Perdiccas to conduct to Babylon, where he proposed to celebrate a magnificent funeral for him… The total height of the pyre was more than one hundred and thirty cubits. I was hoping, taking into account the extensive ...

A question that has always puzzled me about the size of Hephaestion's pyre though is, would it have been hot enough to disintegrate bone? Surely Alexander would have wanted to collect the bones to inter (as Philip's were), so how would you find any bones in that huge pile of ash that would probably...

It is by no means certain that the pyre was ever built, Hephaistion was probably burned at Ecbatana and his ashes brought to Babylon; the Greeks tended not to leave corpses to rot over five or six months before dealing with them, and he does not seem to have been buried. I never knew that there was...

Hello, everyone: Since it's my first post and till now I was just browsing here, never commenting on anything, I think it will be polite to start with a short introduction. I am interested in Alexander as a historical figure and in people who surrounded him, the times he lived and the different opin...