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Actually, even fiction is hard to find. Last I found was Manfredi's. From a personal point of view, I would strongly suggest not touching Manfredi's books with a barge-pole. I am constantly disappointed by fictional accounts of Alexander - in fact, I can't remember a single one since Mary Renault t...

Then I'll be sure to look up Marcus' suggestion. Finding them is the only problem. Lane Fox's version has long been gone from bookstores here. I've searched every bookstore in the vicinity that I can find. Through ebooks I managed to find the psuedo-Callisthenes version and I'm wondering if that's ...

And if you get the Loeb edition you get the Greek and a mass of essays by P A Brunt , the Landmark edition has good accompanying essays, the Penguin has a rather free translation and little supporting material but is cheap :D I would always suggest that the Penguin translation is the better startin...

Cleitus sort of went a little further than you'd suggest with that extended hand and the comments about Alexander's pretense toward being deemed a god. But the belittling of Philip was perhaps one of the more interesting bits that came out here. And that this strange condescension against his own f...

Welcome, Kahiel. I agree with Hypaspist's suggestion, although I would add that you really can't do worse than to read the ancient sources - you have Plutarch, but get a copy of Arrian's Anabasis as well. After that you should read the other sources, but if you're just starting on your Alexandrian j...

Loyalty would still have counted, had he been disloyal, or even suspected, Kleitos could have gone the way of Parmenion and Philotas; though, just maybe the fact that he was Philotas' natural replacement ensured that he was of a totally different Court Faction, the Antipatrids' perhaps since his mu...

It should also be remembered that Kleitos was the ilarch of the senior squadron, the ile basilike, making him next in rank to Philotas and his most likely successor; it is frequently said that his appointment was a sop to the Old Guard but it seems more likely that Hephaistion's was intended to mit...

Though, in Alexander's defense, replacing Philotas with Cleitus the Black (Hep not withstanding) was still putting another member of the old guard back in charge of the Companions. One wonders just how greatly the whole program suffered strategically, tactically, and logistically as a result of thi...

A few years older and already working with his father and Philip. The interesting aspect of this conjecture is that Philotas would have had already some expertise and perhaps specialism in militaristic matters but without a formal education. Thus, groomed for military life solely and completely whi...

Does anybody know whether or not Philotas, or any of Parmenion's sons, were taught at Mieza by Aristotle? As far as I recall, without running upstairs to my library, we have no certain identification of any of the students with Alexander at Mieza. We can make a few assumptions, based on comments ab...

'Paul Cartledge runs the whole gamut of Alexander scholarship, from A to B!' to paraphrase... :roll: As Dorothy Parker would have said ... :D I wonder how far it could be called a "by-product", however, as it must have been written before the film was released. (The film was released in 2...

Marcus, thank you for the "warning" about Worthington's book on Alexander. I was considering taking this book in the library but now I think I am going to skip this reading. I'm glad I have it in my library, but I really don't think it's a particularly good book, and rather too hysterical...

From some of your former comments it seems that Worthington considers the Upper Macedonians non-Macedonian, this is b#ll#cks, of course, I have not got this book but was not impressed with his Alexander; I will have to check in J R Ellis' "Philip IIand Macedonian Imperialism" which did im...

Nattydreadbushdoc wrote:Might be able to provide more photos of this fortress if there is an interest. Please let me know I don't want to waste anyone's time.

I would be surprised if *anyone* here would see it as a waste of your time! Please post away, if you are able to.

I, for one, would love to see some more pics.

The affair is a murky one; were Philotas' assessment incorrect, that Dymnos and Kebalinos were just squabbling, it is surprising that the trial does not pursue the conspirator's involved in this original plot but focusses solely on the vilification of Philotas and his coterie. It certainly has the ...