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Has anyboy read "The Death of Alexander the Great: What - or - Who Really Killed the Young Conqueror of the Known World?" by Paul Doherty?
Is Tsouras' book worth reading?
thanks

The elephant headdress coins were minted by Ptolemy. The series started around 320 B.C. (318/7 at the latest). Their significance is much debated, but I think the most plausible interpretation is that they depcit Alexander as conqueror of India. There are also a few Seleucid coins with Alexander wit...

Hi Jona,it's a very interesting article and it's very good initiative to 'promote' the Babylonian documents. There are, i think, two 'technical' errors in it: something is wrong in this sentence in the translation about the lunar eclipse of 20 September 331: "Its was completely covered at the m...

P. BRIANT, Darius dans lGÇÖombre dGÇÖAlexandre, Paris 2003, pp. 255-264.M. BROSIUS, GÇÿAlexander and the PersiansGÇÖ, in J. ROISMAN (ed.),BrillGÇÖs Companion to Alexander the Great, Leiden GÇô Boston 2003, pp. 169-193.E.A. FREDRICKSMEYER, GÇÿAlexander and the Kingship of AsiaGÇÖ, in A.B. BOSWORTH &a...

check the chapter "The campaign in Iran" in A.B. Bosworth, The Legacy of Alexander. Politics, Warfare, and Propaganda under the Successors, Oxford 2002.

Indeed not really new. I'm not sure whether the movie has anything to do with it. It looks like the typical "excavation in need of money and thus in need of spectacular finds"-thing.

i'm not sure, but if my memory is right, you can find more on Alexander and Herodotus in Michael Zahrnt's article 'Alexanders +£bergang ++ber den Hellespont' in Chiron 36 (1996), pp. 129-147.

i don't know who made these claims and unfortunately i have no time to check it now, but you might find something in A. STEWART, Faces of Power. AlexanderGÇÖs Image and Hellenistic Politics (Hellenistic Culture and Society 11), Berkeley GÇô Los Angeles GÇô Oxford 1993, passim, who discusses it (see ...