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- Tue Jan 05, 2021 9:54 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: The inscription of Bahariya temple
- Replies: 4
- Views: 462
Re: The inscription of Bahariya temple
Hi Hiphys, thanks for this. I knew it rang a bell so I did a search and there was a Robin Lane Fox which mentioned it. See this post here for a bit more detail http://www.pothos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=3946&p=38240&hilit=bahariya#p38240 There is also an interesting thread here http://www.potho...
- Sat Dec 26, 2020 3:31 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Alexander sacked the city of Baalbek?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2744
Re: Alexander sacked the city of Baalbek?
Thanks a lot for that, Spartan. It makes a lot of sense of course that Alexander would have secured the hinterland for Tyre and Sidon, but knowing where to find the information is difficult.
- Thu Dec 24, 2020 2:25 pm
- Forum: 'Off-topic' forum
- Topic: HAPPY CHRISTMAS!
- Replies: 2
- Views: 473
HAPPY CHRISTMAS!
Happy Christmas, everyone, and hopefully 2021 will be a bit better than 2020!
- Tue Nov 17, 2020 8:06 pm
- Forum: Art and Culture
- Topic: Cavalry battle from Lycia
- Replies: 2
- Views: 583
Re: Cavalry battle from Lycia
Fascinating, thanks. It might be Persian but it recognisably shares the same world as Greek art of the period.
- Fri Oct 23, 2020 10:06 am
- Forum: 'Off-topic' forum
- Topic: From the exhibition of the National Museum of Athens
- Replies: 1
- Views: 393
Re: From the exhibition of the National Museum of Athens
Imagine the sun shining on that. It would dazzle the opponent.
- Thu Oct 15, 2020 10:20 am
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: The palace at Pella
- Replies: 1
- Views: 279
Re: The palace at Pella
Thanks - one for the bucket list when Covid disappears.
- Sun Oct 11, 2020 6:12 pm
- Forum: Alexander the Great in the Media
- Topic: Alexander sources website
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1025
Alexander sources website
A good few years ago, Susan Holmes and various others translated quite a lot of the Alexander source documents and posted them all in one place. I quite often used to refer to this site especially for some of the less well-known sources such as Athenaeus. It used to be here https://sites.google.com/...
- Thu Sep 24, 2020 1:11 pm
- Forum: Alexander's contemporaries
- Topic: Hephaiston's death
- Replies: 12
- Views: 5564
Re: Hephaiston's death
If Hephaestion was already suffering from a perforated intestine, an emetic could have caused further perforations of the stomach, esophagus, bowl or intestine. However, causing someone to vomit in a weakened state, could have meant Hephaestion choked on his own vomit. That would account for the spe...
- Sat Sep 05, 2020 2:39 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: The death of Alexander the Great - poisoning hypothesis
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1317
Re: The death of Alexander the Great - poisoning hypothesis
Hi, thanks for this. Just FYI, Andrew Chugg didn't come up with the malaria theory. This has been around since at least the early 1970s when Peter Green and Robin Lane Fox were writing their biographies, and they both speak as though it is already a well accepted theory. Peter Green also mentions pl...
- Mon Aug 17, 2020 8:54 pm
- Forum: Comments, help, suggestions etc
- Topic: Light again
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1241
Re: Light again
Hi. I don't really know what to suggest. Perhaps you could try deleting your cookies as this might reload the software for you. Unfortunately I don't know how to tell you to do this on your tablet.
- Sun Aug 16, 2020 2:52 pm
- Forum: Comments, help, suggestions etc
- Topic: Light
- Replies: 3
- Views: 609
Re: Light
Hi, does anyone else have this issue? Everything is fine on my laptop. Are you using a tablet or mobile phone?
- Mon Aug 10, 2020 5:34 pm
- Forum: Comments, help, suggestions etc
- Topic: Updated layout
- Replies: 1
- Views: 266
Updated layout
You might have noticed we had an issue with posting for a few days. Thomas has now updated the layout and fixed the issues. Thanks! 

- Sun Aug 02, 2020 9:26 pm
- Forum: Art and Culture
- Topic: Pergamon Head
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1410
Pergamon Head
20200802_215308b.jpg I have wanted a replica of the Pergamon head for years and finally bought one from here https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/788957012/alexander-the-great-marble-bust-statue?ref=shop_home_active_3&frs=1 . It was a little bigger than I had an anticipated, but it really is excellent q...
- Sun Jul 26, 2020 10:47 am
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: The death of Alexander the Great - poisoning hypothesis
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1317
Re: The death of Alexander the Great - poisoning hypothesis
Hi, and welcome. As you can imagine, this topic has been touched on many times on this forum, most recently here http://www.pothos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=12&p=46932#p46932 . Alexander's cry may have been caused by a sudden cramp on drinking chilled wine, or a rupture of a something internal. In i...
- Sun Jul 05, 2020 9:11 pm
- Forum: Alexander's contemporaries
- Topic: Hephaiston's death
- Replies: 12
- Views: 5564
Re: Hephaiston's death
I wonder if Alexander executed the doctor because he gave Hephaestion an emetic, which might have had a catastrophic effect.