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'Dionysus was the "guiding star" for Alexander, who in turn brought civilization, founded cities and spread Greek language and art from Mediterranean to Central Asia and India'(Sydney Morning Herald). I am sure that with "brought civilization" the author implied "Greek"...

I visited the site of this guy, and, well! If you wish, believe in what he told! I know two more reports of this kind, in which Alexander is involved, the first published by André Malraux (Hotes de passage, Gallimard 1975, pp.85 ss.), the second in a Pendragon book (www.pendragon.it, 2006). As alway...

But now Green's biography of Alexander is (at most) out of fashion, yet it is always quoted!

Thank you very much, Alexias, you are right! I only wondered, in my poor English, why Peter Green's book is so widely known.
Hiphys

Hi Chris!
Thank you very much! You are perfectly right on Peter Green and his biography of Alexander! I never understood why it is currently so succesful, especially among common people. God bless you for your so outright criticism of this awful book!
Hiphys

I found for this quote (Arrian 1. 14, 4) another translation: "Where they observed Alexander himself - he was unmistakable, from the splendour of his equipement and the enthusiasm of the men in attendance round him - aiming at their left, they massed their cavalry squadrons on the bank there&qu...

I apololgize for being unable to explain myself. There are two kinds of questions in this inscription. 1) Is it Ionic or Attic or neither? 2) Which century does the inscription belong to: V or IV B.C.? 1) The first question is related very strictly to the second: if the inscription is Ionic, the alp...

I never wrote that Eukleides' reform intoduced newly invented letters, but rather that Athens adopted Ionic alphabet: here omega and H as long \e\ were characteristic features. As for masculine singular genetive in Ionic prose inscriptions is never -oio, but -o (long): the former feature occurs only...

I think that the dating of this inscription, as reported by the book (334-305 BC.), is quite exact, for many reasons: 1) It seems this alphabet is written according to the 'reform of Eucleides', that took place in 403\2 BC. In this alphabet there was a place for 'omega', H was the letter for long \e...