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- Mon May 06, 2024 2:24 am
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Netflix’s Alexander..
- Replies: 15
- Views: 8660
Re: Netflix’s Alexander..
It seems to have been enjoyed by people who aren't hugely familiar with Alexander. The whole time, they kept emphasizing that 98% of the viewers would know nada about him, so it had to make sense to them. Us ouside the USA (and most within it) grew up reading, hearing, and watching things set in vi...
- Mon Oct 30, 2023 8:09 pm
- Forum: Book reviews
- Topic: Fred Naiden's Life of Alexander
- Replies: 0
- Views: 7402
Fred Naiden's Life of Alexander
The new issue of Mouseion reminds me that Fred Naiden published a life of Alexander with the title Soldier, Priest, and God in 2019. I have not read it in full but Fred Naiden is a good scholar. The chapter on geography seemed to have the idea that Alexander had not memorized all the itineraries of ...
- Sun Sep 24, 2023 11:52 pm
- Forum: Book reviews
- Topic: Robin Lane Fox Alexander the great
- Replies: 6
- Views: 7445
Re: Robin Lane Fox Alexander the great
Thanks for this. Gosh, it is a long, long time since I read this (1980s I think), but I do remember that it was full of detail. I wonder though whether any of it is now out of date, not the big things but interpretations and further details that were not known then. If its the book by Robin Lane Fo...
- Wed Apr 13, 2022 2:36 am
- Forum: The Diadochi
- Topic: New Open-Access Article on Pydna
- Replies: 0
- Views: 19227
New Open-Access Article on Pydna
https://grbs.library.duke.edu/article/view/16636/7487 "Reconstructing the Battle of Pydna" by Paul Johstono, Michael J. Taylor The reported topography of the battle (168 B.C.) places it near Kitros, and the maneuvers described suggest hasty deployment by both sides, an unintended ‘meeting ...
- Fri Feb 18, 2022 6:27 pm
- Forum: Book reviews
- Topic: Kathleen Toohey
- Replies: 2
- Views: 9553
Re: Kathleen Toohey
Yes, if you are tired of the attacks on strawmen and 'pretty pictures' on social media, the academia.edu chats on her thesis are great places to geek out!
- Wed Dec 22, 2021 4:47 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: A B Bosworth: Conquest and Empire
- Replies: 11
- Views: 15806
Re: A B Bosworth: Conquest and Empire
Now I want to see a story inspired by a western where one of Alexander's veterans in the mountains of Upper Macedonia is the force of destruction which local crooks accidentally get in the way of. Last time I started to read Arrian's Anabasis , I was stuck and horrified by his deletion of the murder...
- Tue Dec 21, 2021 11:56 pm
- Forum: 'Off-topic' forum
- Topic: Eugene Borza
- Replies: 0
- Views: 9516
Eugene Borza
I am told that Eugene Borza, the scholar of Argead Macedonia, has died at the age of 86. There is a tribute in the journal Karanos https://revistes.uab.cat/karanos/article/view/83/81
- Sat Jun 12, 2021 6:04 pm
- Forum: Art and Culture
- Topic: A poem to roses- New findings in Aegae
- Replies: 2
- Views: 12165
Re: A poem to roses- New findings in Aegae
Thank you system_1988
That is a good poem for the time of Philip V (and for those of us who are stuck in life!)
That is a good poem for the time of Philip V (and for those of us who are stuck in life!)
- Sat Jun 12, 2021 6:04 pm
- Forum: Philip and Alexander's predecessors
- Topic: R. Taylor, The Macedonian Phalanx (2020)
- Replies: 1
- Views: 19089
R. Taylor, The Macedonian Phalanx (2020)
I have a review of Richard Taylor's "The Macedonian Phalanx" up https://bookandsword.com/2021/06/12/rev ... n-phalanx/
- Wed Feb 10, 2021 7:27 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: what is the origin of this proverb
- Replies: 11
- Views: 59425
Re: what is the origin of this proverb
All the peoples of Iran are great and creative and kind, and I don't know anyone who had to fight them who said they were not tough, but ...
according to an anonymous Wikipedia editor in 2013.
- Fri Jan 15, 2021 9:39 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: The inscription of Bahariya temple
- Replies: 4
- Views: 8104
Re: The inscription of Bahariya temple
Happy New Year! I'm glad to recommend this paper by Francisco Bosch-Puche: 'L' "autel" du temple d'Alexandre à Bahariya retrouvé ', BIFAO 108 (2008), pp. 29-44.(I found it in Academia.edu). The author has found again an altar and a stele of a temple excavated in 1938 in Bahariya, but misl...
- Fri Jan 15, 2021 9:30 pm
- Forum: The Diadochi
- Topic: New book on Ptolemaic armies
- Replies: 0
- Views: 27579
New book on Ptolemaic armies
Spreading an understanding of Hellenistic armies as armies (versus the narrative drawn from pro-Roman writers and modern orient stereotypes that they were just Alexander's army but bloated and passive) is like trying to get a 40er to turn about or thousands of cavalry to halt a charge. There is a ne...
- Sun Jan 03, 2021 8:29 am
- Forum: 'Off-topic' forum
- Topic: HAPPY CHRISTMAS!
- Replies: 2
- Views: 11170
Re: HAPPY CHRISTMAS!
you too A. As I said elsewhere, I think we need to treat our problems as the structural problems which require long-term solutions which they are. None of them is going to shrivel up when a new invention or a new leader or a new year arrives. Alexander did not march to the Indus in a year!
- Thu Nov 26, 2020 10:05 pm
- Forum: Alexander's contemporaries
- Topic: Three books on the Achaemenids
- Replies: 3
- Views: 22646
Re: Three books on the Achaemenids
Glad to see Brosius's book. I use her smaller one, The Persians , in my ANE class. Will be sure to put the new one on order. But what do you mean she "quit" the ancient racket? Last time we talked, she was about to take early retirement from the University of Toronto and look for somethin...
- Fri Nov 20, 2020 7:20 pm
- Forum: Art and Culture
- Topic: Cavalry battle from Lycia
- Replies: 2
- Views: 10280
Re: Cavalry battle from Lycia
You are welcome! A chapter in Lâtife Summerer and Alexander von Kienlin's book The return of colours (2010) talks about possible connections between these painted tombs and the painted tombs in Tuscany in the same period. Refugees from Phocaea sailed west to Italy.