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Well hello and welcome back. I don’t disagree – more of a venting of frustration. Thanks, I have not really been gone actually, but I hardly found the time to post. And I know that you were venting frustration. So was I actually: I am just very much in a "war on Quellenforschung" mood the...

complete silence about the two years of warfare in Babylonia following the "peace of the dynasts". Hieronymus, with respect to the later, prefers to regale us with an explanation for his failure at the bitumen pits in the ME. It is a most frustrating lapse and one only - marginally - illu...

Is it possible by public transport? It is possible. See the Pothos travel guide: http://www.pothos.org/content/index.php?page=travel---alexander-s-footsteps#greece. I went there last year by public transport and found it fairly convenient. Just take a good and recent travel guide with you and take ...

The name of Kassandros' officer was Kallas (Diodorus XIX 35.3). Indeed, he bribed Polyperchon's soldiers who consequently deserted (Diodorus XIX 36.6). The names of Polyperchon's officers are unknown.

Andronikos and his team recorded many elements which would exclude Arrhidaios, but none of those are undisputed.

But if being Arridaeus’ tomb means its contents include some of Alexander’s personal possessions – then sod the Lochness Monster. That is of course if it means that. Arrhidaeus certainly will have had his own shield etc. And even if he continued to carry around Alexander's possessions after June 32...

The timeline on site Theseus gave the link to seems to be a very thorough exposition of the low chronology, i.e. the one Perdikkas' death in 320 (haven't really checked it in detail though). Indeed, as Paralus says, The Legacy of Alexander would be a very useful book for you Ruthaki, if you do not h...

The chronology of these years is a hotly debated topic. It has already been discussed here before, e.g. here: http://www.pothos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3247 . It was either the winter of 317/316 or that of 316/315. Scholars have been arguing about this for decades now, and a consensus does not see...

These four crown games were indeed more prestigious: they formed a kind of 'Grand Slam'.
see http://ancientolympics.arts.kuleuven.be ... 012EN.html

(...) if one were to describe Polyperchon as having received "the power over the empire", would that not imply "power" over its armed forces? Up until then the only other "challenger" will have been the "strategos of Asia" - Antigonus - and in the narrative t...

The correct chronology can be retrieved from several crucial synchronisms in Diodorus' text re events in Makedonia and Asia, and from Chris Bennett's and my own recent work on Makedonian chronology. The key latter points are that Philip III was executed on 1 Dios 317, after which Antigonos and Ptol...

Siebert is surely right about the technical language vis-a-vis the successors since Diodoros source, Hieronymos was precise or at least more consistent than usual in his usage To my mind Seibert is certainly wrong here. Even if Hieronymus was Diodorus' source for the entire Successor narrative or i...

Can you give some more details on which events you mean? It is not clear to me, even after checking the articles 'Polyperchon' in the Realencyclopaedie and Heckel's Who is who . Do you mean the desertion of Polyperchon's troops to Kassandros' general Kallas in Perrhaibia? If so, Diodorus (XIX 36.5-6...

Ptolemy was more careful than Antigonus, and that is what made Antigonus look more acquisitive and what made Ptolemy more succesful. It does not seem to me that he was less ambitious. The hi-jacking of Alexander's body, the marriage plans with Kleopatra, his coinage all point to the aim of becoming ...

BMCR has a review of Ranajit Pal, Non-Jonesian Indology and Alexander , New Delhi: Minerva Press, 2002. Pp. 254. ISBN 81-7662-032-7. £21,50. @ http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/2007/2007-12-39.html The book seems to shed new light on a lot of problems from an Indian perspective, but assessing the argu...