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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...

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.

Happy Christmas, everyone, and hopefully 2021 will be a bit better than 2020!

Fascinating, thanks. It might be Persian but it recognisably shares the same world as Greek art of the period.

Imagine the sun shining on that. It would dazzle the opponent.

Thanks - one for the bucket list when Covid disappears.

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/...

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...

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...

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Hi, does anyone else have this issue? Everything is fine on my laptop. Are you using a tablet or mobile phone?

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!

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...

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...

I wonder if Alexander executed the doctor because he gave Hephaestion an emetic, which might have had a catastrophic effect.