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Thanks. Agnes Saville also says, several times but without offering any evidence, that Cassander would not allow any positive biography of Alexander to be published. I think she may just be extrapolating that backwards because Ptolemy didn't get round to writing his memoirs until he was an old man. ...

I have been reading Agnes Saville's "Alexander the Great and his Time" (1955). She says that Alexander didn't take Cassander to Asia with him because of Cassander's poor health. This gave him an inferiority complex, and partly accounts for his eradication of Alexander's family. I couldn't ...

Are they not aware that the Prado hasn't identified that bronze head as Hephaestion for 3 or 4 years? They now identify it as more likely to be Demetrios Polioketes, son of Antigonos https://www.museodelprado.es/en/the-collection/art-work/portrait-of-demetrios-poliorketes-/56e2bd91-856c-4e22-9052-00...

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...

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. (...

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.

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...

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...

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...

There are traces of a diadem on the Hephaestion head, on the left hand side.
There are other heads, reputed to be Hephaestion, with diadems

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) ...

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. ...

The photojournalist David Adams featured these people in his Alexander series https://davidadamsfilms.wordpress.com/

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.

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?