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- Sun May 19, 2024 3:00 pm
- Forum: Art and Culture
- Topic: Bettany Hughes - Bulgaria
- Replies: 9
- Views: 575
Re: Bettany Hughes - Bulgaria
Marcus: I think we should give Bettany Hughes a bit of a break - she's making popular history programmes, and for those who aren't well versed in ancient history it's easier to designate the wife of a king as a queen, even though *we* know that there were no such things as 'queens' in Macedonia. I ...
- Sat May 18, 2024 7:58 pm
- Forum: Art and Culture
- Topic: Bettany Hughes - Bulgaria
- Replies: 9
- Views: 575
Re: Bettany Hughes - Bulgaria
Recent archaeology out of northern Greece, as well as ancient Thrace and Illyria is demonstrating that the Greek take on the "barbarism" of these people well back into the Late Iron Age (Archaic Era) is more political/philosophic fiction than reality, and later Roman Second Sophistic take...
- Sat May 18, 2024 7:46 pm
- Forum: Art and Culture
- Topic: Bettany Hughes - Bulgaria
- Replies: 9
- Views: 575
Re: Bettany Hughes - Bulgaria
In other words, there is no evidence that Meda threw herself on Philip's funeral pyre, merely a theory based on very shaky peripheral evidence and a number of Occam-razor-like assumptions. :-) Yes, I was about to post exactly the same - bending the evidence to fit the theory that it was Philip II's...
- Sat May 18, 2024 7:27 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Alexander's Last Days: Reconstruction
- Replies: 4
- Views: 34
Re: Alexander's Last Days: Reconstruction
Interesting, thanks. Maybe you could highlight the bits that don't come from the romances and don't deal with the poisoning so that you can read the fever narrative and see how it has been embroidered by the poisoning narrative. Interestingly, if you read this narrative from Arrian (Book VII, XXV): ...
- Thu May 16, 2024 9:30 am
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Herculaneum papyri
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4402
Re: Herculaneum papyri
I don't think this lad got a mention in the Channel 5 programme, though they did mention the word 'purple'. And Jeanne appears in the video!
- Sun May 12, 2024 10:20 pm
- Forum: Alexander Sources
- Topic: Strabo #9 Persians
- Replies: 0
- Views: 64
Strabo #9 Persians
The Geography of Strabo Literally translated with notes. The first six books by H. C. Hamilton, Esq.The remainder by W. Falconer, M.A. Published by Henry G. Bohn, London, 1856 Book XV. Chapter I . 69. India. Historians also relate that the Indians worship Jupiter Ombrius (or, the Rainy), the river ...
- Sun May 12, 2024 6:27 pm
- Forum: Art and Culture
- Topic: Bettany Hughes - Bulgaria
- Replies: 9
- Views: 575
Re: Bettany Hughes - Bulgaria
Visually this was very interesting, although a bit misleading in places. For example, Bettany was walking through one of the large rooms off the central courtyard at Aigai, but gave the impression that it was the courtyard itself, which could house 4,000 people. There was also a large drainage chann...
- Sun May 12, 2024 3:40 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Herculaneum papyri
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4402
Re: Herculaneum papyri
There is a programme tonight (Channel 5 9 pm) where Professor Alice Roberts talks to Brent Searles about this work.
- Sat May 11, 2024 10:39 am
- Forum: Art and Culture
- Topic: Bettany Hughes - Bulgaria
- Replies: 9
- Views: 575
Re: Bettany Hughes - Bulgaria
Apparently tonight's episode (7 pm Channel 4) features the "birthplace of Alexander the Great" Aigai, to see artifacts that are being restored. Should be worth seeing.
- Mon May 06, 2024 2:15 pm
- Forum: Comments, help, suggestions etc
- Topic: Posting issues
- Replies: 2
- Views: 6988
Re: Posting issues
Hi, I have approved this post as I am sure you mean to be helpful, but I think you may have missed the point. You cannot post unless you are logged in, but sometimes you get timed out when you attempt to submit the post, though this hasn't happened for a while now. Welcome, though!
- Sun May 05, 2024 8:41 pm
- Forum: Alexander Sources
- Topic: Strabo #8 India
- Replies: 0
- Views: 76
Strabo #8 India
The Geography of Strabo Literally translated with notes. The first six books by H. C. Hamilton, Esq.The remainder by W. Falconer, M.A. Published by Henry G. Bohn, London, 1856 Book XV. Chapter I . 29. India. Between the Hydaspes and Acesines is the country of Porus,(1) an extensive and fertile dist...
- Tue Apr 30, 2024 8:13 pm
- Forum: Alexander Sources
- Topic: Strabo #7 India
- Replies: 0
- Views: 123
Strabo #7 India
The Geography of Strabo Literally translated with notes. The first six books by H. C. Hamilton, Esq.The remainder by W. Falconer, M.A. Published by Henry G. Bohn, London, 1856 Book XV. Chapter I. 2. India. The reader must receive the account of this country with indulgence, for it lies at a very gr...
- Sun Apr 28, 2024 9:56 pm
- Forum: Art and Culture
- Topic: Bettany Hughes - Bulgaria
- Replies: 9
- Views: 575
Bettany Hughes - Bulgaria
The latest episode of Bettany Hughes' 'Treasure of the World' concentrated on Bulgaria ie the Thracians, and it was most interesting. I confess I have tended to regard the Thracians in the same way the Greeks seem to have regarded them - as barbarians - meaning with the modern connotation of uncivil...
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 3:01 pm
- Forum: Alexander Sources
- Topic: Strabo #6
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1585
Strabo #6
The Geography of Strabo Literally translated with notes. The first six books by H. C. Hamilton, Esq.The remainder by W. Falconer, M.A. Published by Henry G. Bohn, London, 1856 Excerpt from Book XIII. Chapter I. 2. The Troad. The coast of the Propontis extends from Cyzicene and the places about the ...
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 4:35 pm
- Forum: Alexander Sources
- Topic: Strabo #5
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1293
Strabo #5
The Geography of Strabo Literally translated with notes. The first six books by H. C. Hamilton, Esq.The remainder by W. Falconer, M.A. Published by Henry G. Bohn, London, 1856 Excerpt from Book XI. Chapter XIII. 3. Media. The other parts of this country are fertile, but that towards the north is mo...