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by Alexias
Thu Mar 03, 2016 10:22 pm
Forum: Art and Culture
Topic: A brilliant morning at Delphi III
Replies: 13
Views: 5736

Re: A brilliant morning at Delphi III

Thanks for the photos, John. Hope you enjoy your trip to Germany, and don't forget your umbrella! http://i769.photobucket.com/albums/xx338/kizzikat2010/DSCI7586_zps7db9umxw.jpg The size and position of Craterus's monument so close to the temple of Apollo, just goes to show how phenomenally wealthy A...
by Alexias
Tue Feb 09, 2016 10:09 pm
Forum: Philip and Alexander's predecessors
Topic: Philip in Lefkada (Ionian island)
Replies: 4
Views: 12588

Re: Philip in Lefkada (Ionian island)

I should have looked it up. Nicholas Hammond says: Philip then moved his army towards two colonies of Corinth, Leucas and Ambracia, which was the chief exporter of timber and animal products from eastern Epirus. The reactions of Corinth and her allies, including Athens, were such that he withdrew. (...
by Alexias
Tue Feb 09, 2016 10:20 am
Forum: Philip and Alexander's predecessors
Topic: Philip in Lefkada (Ionian island)
Replies: 4
Views: 12588

Re: Philip in Lefkada (Ionian island)

At a guess, I would say the nearest Philip ever got to Lefkada would have been Delphi, and that he wouldn't have bothered sending any troops there. Perhaps the island sent a delegation to him at Corinth as it seems to have been a Corinthian colony and this has found its way into local myth.
by Alexias
Mon Feb 01, 2016 4:45 pm
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: The Sphinxes Guarding the Lion Tomb Entrance at Amphipolis
Replies: 1585
Views: 542228

Re: The Sphinxes Guarding the Lion Tomb Entrance at Amphipolis

gped wrote "2) The parts of the Lion that were discovered by the Greek army and later on by English forces were originally scatter in a 4 km wide area extending towards Kastas. Part of the lion's back was discovered by the current investigators close to Kastas, part of the lon's mane was found...
by Alexias
Tue Jan 26, 2016 11:03 am
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: Hello everybody
Replies: 1
Views: 1585

Re: Hello everybody

Hi Atikk, that sounds fascinating and I'd love to see some photos. Pothos isn't really designed to host photos. If you upload them to Pothos you are limited to 3 per post, so you would be better to upload them to somewhere like Photobucket or Flickr and then post a link to them. I wouldn't recommend...
by Alexias
Tue Jan 19, 2016 10:49 pm
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: The Sphinxes Guarding the Lion Tomb Entrance at Amphipolis
Replies: 1585
Views: 542228

Re: The Sphinxes Guarding the Lion Tomb Entrance at Amphipolis

This is not directly relevant but I was looking for something else and came across this and thought it might be of interest. It comes from 'Pella: Alexander the Great's Capital' by Photias Petsas (1978) and shows an 'A' inscribed on a block of masonry. The circle's mine. http://ic.pics.livejournal.c...
by Alexias
Sun Jan 17, 2016 9:09 pm
Forum: Art and Culture
Topic: Statues of Alexander and Hephaestion, National Museum of Athens
Replies: 38
Views: 18409

Re: Statues of Alexander and Hephaestion, National Museum of Athens

There are traces of a diadem on the Hephaestion head, on the left hand side.
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There are other heads, reputed to be Hephaestion, with diadems
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by Alexias
Sun Jan 03, 2016 11:16 pm
Forum: Art and Culture
Topic: Statues of Alexander and Hephaestion, National Museum of Athens
Replies: 38
Views: 18409

Re: Statues of Alexander and Hephaestion, National Museum of Athens

Andrew Stewart (Faces of Power, 1993) says this about the statuettes: Their open-toed boots with soles that are strongly indented at the front date them not earlier than the second century, and most prefer to put them in the first. The only full-length marble portraits of Alexander and (presumably) ...
by Alexias
Sun Jan 03, 2016 10:39 pm
Forum: Art and Culture
Topic: Alexander the Great in early Medieval Russia
Replies: 6
Views: 5052

Re: Alexander the Great in early Medieval Russia

Fascinating post, Delos. Oral tales of Alexander may well have travelled back to Russia with the Swedish Vikings (the Rus) who ruled part of modern Russia from the 9th to 11th cent. and who travelled down the Dnieper to the Black Sea and Miklagard (Byzantium), where they formed the Varangian Guard. ...
by Alexias
Sun Jan 03, 2016 10:06 pm
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: alex in afghanistan
Replies: 44
Views: 24532

Re: alex in afghanistan

The photojournalist David Adams featured these people in his Alexander series https://davidadamsfilms.wordpress.com/
by Alexias
Sat Dec 26, 2015 4:03 pm
Forum: 'Off-topic' forum
Topic: Ancient holiday traditions
Replies: 4
Views: 2845

Re: Ancient holiday traditions

The giveaway should have been the stockings, hiphys! Don't think hoplites had stockings, partly because knitting hadn't been invented. In cold weather, boots tended to be stuffed with wool or straw in lieu of socks.
by Alexias
Thu Dec 17, 2015 10:12 pm
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: Xmas present for the past
Replies: 5
Views: 3526

Re: Xmas present for the past

1/ for Atg - an undiscovered son old enough to rule when he died OR a fast motor car. Bet he'd choose the car

2/ 'Faces of Power' by Andrew Stewart

3/ for the others - Craterus and his troops in Babylon when Alexander died OR modern social media. Wonder who would win at selling themselves?
by Alexias
Mon Dec 14, 2015 11:27 am
Forum: The Diadochi
Topic: Macedonian Military Numbers
Replies: 136
Views: 404067

Re: Macedonian Military Numbers

I don't want to be mean, but Sheldon's arguments tend to go round in tautological circles until he wins by a process of attrition :D Penny: I give up, he's impossible Sheldon: I can't be impossible, I exist. I believe what you meant to say is, "I give up, he's improbable." Me: No, Sheldon,...
by Alexias
Sun Dec 13, 2015 7:17 pm
Forum: The Diadochi
Topic: Macedonian Military Numbers
Replies: 136
Views: 404067

Re: Macedonian Military Numbers

I think that's 'Big Bang Theory'? I don't watch it but might if you reckon it's worth it; I do watch some comedy but not normally the American sort, BBC's 'Episodes' tends to confirm my prejudices in a very funny way. But Alexias, why not just point out where you disagree with the arguments (if you...
by Alexias
Sun Dec 13, 2015 6:53 pm
Forum: The Diadochi
Topic: Macedonian Military Numbers
Replies: 136
Views: 404067

Re: Macedonian Military Numbers

Hmm, "plague"? Carefully chosen word, I'm sure. Well, here we go. I have previously said I don't want to see discussions about "how" something is debated, nor remarks directed at those who post. And here I am, doing that exact thing myself. I went from posting what I thought was...