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- Mon Mar 18, 2024 10:18 pm
- Forum: Alexander Sources
- Topic: Athenaeus - Deipnosophists Book XIV
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Athenaeus - Deipnosophists Book XIV
Athenaeus - Deipnosophists Book XIV Book XIV. 614 d - 615 a Hippolochus of Macedon, again, in his Letter to Lynceus mentions as jesters Mandrogenes and Straton of Athens. For at Athens there was an abundance of these clever gentry. At any rate, in the temple of Heracles, in the deme Diomeia, they w...
- Sun Mar 17, 2024 10:26 pm
- Forum: Alexander Sources
- Topic: Athenaeus - Deipnosophists Book XIIIb
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Athenaeus - Deipnosophists Book XIIIb
Athenaeus - Deipnosophists Book XIIIb Book XIII. 594 d – 596 b Harpalus, the Macedonian who plundered large sums from Alexander’s funds and then sought refuge in Athens, fell in love with Pythionice and squandered a great deal on her, though she was a courtesan; and when she died he erected a monum...
- Sun Mar 17, 2024 10:23 pm
- Forum: Alexander Sources
- Topic: Athenaeus - Deipnosophists Book XIIIa
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Athenaeus - Deipnosophists Book XIIIa
Athenaeus - Deipnosophists Book XIIIa Book XIII 555 a The comic poet Antiphanes, friend Timocrates, was once reading one of his plays to King Alexander, who, however, made it plain that he did not altogether like it. “No wonder, sire,” the poet said; “for the man who likes this play of mine must ha...
- Sun Mar 17, 2024 4:01 pm
- Forum: Book reviews
- Topic: Alexander the Great: A New History
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Alexander the Great: A New History
Alexander the Great: A New History edited by Waldemar Heckel and Lawrence A. Tritle This book was originally intended as a quasi-response to Oliver Stone's 2004 film 'Alexander' but it wasn't published until 2009. It is a broad introduction to the study of Alexander, but it is not a book for beginne...
- Sun Mar 17, 2024 3:27 pm
- Forum: Alexander Sources
- Topic: Athenaeus - Deipnosophists Book XII
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Athenaeus - Deipnosophists Book XII
Athenaeus - Deipnosophists Book XII Book XII. 513 e – 515 a (On the Persians.) The first men in history to become notorious for luxurious living were the Persians, whose kings wintered in Susa and summered in Ecbatana. (Now Susa was so called, according to Aristobulus and Chares, because of the bea...
- Sun Mar 17, 2024 3:23 pm
- Forum: Alexander Sources
- Topic: Athenaeus - Deipnosophists Book XI
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Athenaeus - Deipnosophists Book XI
Athenaeus - Deipnosophists Book XI Note: Book XI starts with sections 459 through 466, jumps to sections 781 through 784, and then returns to section 466. Book XI. 781 f Parmenion, summing up the booty taken from the Persians, in his Letters to Alexander, says: “Gold cups, weight seventy-three Baby...
- Sun Mar 17, 2024 2:43 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Cheronea, a question
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Re: Cheronea, a question
I've merged the posts into two separate topics, basically the Sacred Band and the Macedonian pyre.
- Sun Mar 17, 2024 9:38 am
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Cheronea, a question
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2639
Re: Cheronea, a question
I have made a start on merging some of the posts together. I will get back to it in a bit. In the meantime, instead of starting a 'new topic'for each photo, you could 'post reply' to one of your topics to group the photos together,
- Sat Mar 16, 2024 9:26 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Cheronea, a question
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2639
Re: Cheronea, a question
I can certainly have a try to merge some of the posts together. It will have to be tomorrow though.
- Sat Mar 16, 2024 8:39 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Cheronea, a question
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Re: Cheronea, a question
Hi , i would like to ask Alexias and the other pothosians ,to continue posting the exhibits or has it become tiresome as a topic ? It will be followed by findings of the Macedonian funeral pyre, Macedonian and Theban weapons,a fresco from a Macedonian tomb unknown to many of us , as well some of th...
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 8:25 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Cheronea , exhibition Athens
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Re: Cheronea 3 Exhibition , Athens
Thank you for the photos, Pauline, and I hope you enjoyed the exhibition. Tiny question. I know we've had various discussions here https://pothos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6943 and here principally https://pothos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2841 about whether Alexander led the cavalry or the phalanx a...
- Tue Mar 12, 2024 9:40 pm
- Forum: Alexander Sources
- Topic: Athenaeus - Deipnosophists Book X
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Athenaeus - Deipnosophists Book X
Athenaeus - Deipnosophists Book X Book X. 423 c When, then, a large cup had been given Ulpian said: “Fill your ladle, slave, with stronger wine and pour it into my cup; not as the comic poet Antiphanes has it, who says in The Twins*: ‘He took and brought the big cup to me, and I made him pour in un...
- Tue Mar 12, 2024 8:55 pm
- Forum: Alexander Sources
- Topic: Athenaeus - Deipnosophists Book IX
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Athenaeus - Deipnosophists Book IX
Athenaeus - Deipnosophists Book IX Book IX. 393 b - c The middle syllable of the name for quail is prolonged in Attic Greek, just as in doidyka (pestle) and in keryka (herald); so Demetrius Ixion states in his treatise On the Alexandrian Dialect. But Aristophanes made it short in The Peace, for the...
- Tue Mar 12, 2024 8:51 pm
- Forum: Alexander Sources
- Topic: Athenaeus - Deipnosophists Book VIII
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Athenaeus - Deipnosophists Book VIII
Athenaeus - Deipnosophists Book VIII Book VIII. 334 a - b I know that Phylarchus also speaks somewhere of large fish, and green figs sent to them, by Patroclus, Ptolemy’s general, to King Antigonus by way of hinting what would happen to him, just as the Scythians did to Darius when he was invading ...
- Tue Mar 12, 2024 8:25 pm
- Forum: Alexander Sources
- Topic: Athenaeus - Deipnosophists Book VII
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Athenaeus - Deipnosophists Book VII
Athenaeus - Deipnosophists Book VII Book VII. 276 f – 277 a Philip of Macedon and his son Alexander were apple-lovers, according to Dorotheus in the sixth book of his History of Alexander. And Chares of Mitylene records that Alexander, finding that the best apples were in Babylonia, filled his ship...