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- Mon May 27, 2024 5:31 pm
- Forum: Comments, help, suggestions etc
- Topic: New website - opinion
- Replies: 2
- Views: 38
Re: New website - opinion
I have been working on a new front page for the website. Please could you take a look and give me your opinion and any comments or suggestions. https://pothos.org/contentnew/index.html . It doesn't look too bad on my phone! Do you think it is too flashy? Do you think it will attract new members? I ...
- Sat May 25, 2024 9:07 am
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Alexander's Last Days: Chronological Source Rearrangement (without the poison narrative and the romances)
- Replies: 28
- Views: 464
Re: Alexander's Last Days: Chronological Source Rearrangement (without the poison narrative and the romances)
Having said that, I don't think it follows that Antipater was recalled at the same time that Craterus set out, so he hadn't necessarily had a year to plot Alexander's death. Of course we don't know exactly what happened, but it is possible that Craterus was actually sent with Antipater's recall pap...
- Fri May 24, 2024 10:58 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Alexander's Last Days: Chronological Source Rearrangement (without the poison narrative and the romances)
- Replies: 28
- Views: 464
Re: Alexander's Last Days: Chronological Source Rearrangement (without the poison narrative and the romances)
Having checked this, Craterus seems to have left for Greece in June 324 BC (Hephaestion dying in the October), but 12 months later was no further than Cilicia. Heckel says his ill-health and trouble in Cilicia had held him up, but Antipater therefore must have known for 12 months that Alexander had...
- Thu May 23, 2024 6:02 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Alexander's Last Days: Chronological Source Rearrangement (without the poison narrative and the romances)
- Replies: 28
- Views: 464
Re: Alexander's Last Days: Chronological Source Rearrangement (without the poison narrative and the romances)
So when Antipater heard that Craterus was going to replace him, he first poisoned Hephaestion (or do you think Hephaestion died of pneumonia too?) because he would most probably succeed Alexander, and then a year later he poisoned Alexander. Actually, I think Antipater might have been in cahoots wi...
- Mon May 20, 2024 7:55 pm
- Forum: Art and Culture
- Topic: Bettany Hughes - Bulgaria
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1060
Re: Bettany Hughes - Bulgaria
I'd suggest you watch the episode on catch-up and you might see why I am getting annoyed with her. Historians should aim for a balanced neutrality, not bend history to fit their own agenda. That is a very dangerous thing to start doing if you are not aiming for objectivity. I appreciate that the ai...
- Mon May 20, 2024 7:50 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Alexander's Last Days: Chronological Source Rearrangement (without the poison narrative and the romances)
- Replies: 28
- Views: 464
Re: Alexander's Last Days: Chronological Source Rearrangement (without the poison narrative and the romances)
Inspired by Alexias, I made a chronological source rearrangement of Alexander's last days without the poison narrative and the romances. However, this is not a reconstruction like I did in this thread: https://www.pothos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7309. Here I quote the sources explicitly so there i...
- Sun May 19, 2024 9:07 am
- Forum: Art and Culture
- Topic: Bettany Hughes - Bulgaria
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1060
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 3:00 pm
- Forum: Art and Culture
- Topic: Bettany Hughes - Bulgaria
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1060
Re: Bettany Hughes - Bulgaria
Anyway, we were also told that Queen Meda, Philip's sixth wife, threw herself on Philip's funeral pyre. And the evidence for this? Not given. A quick look around on t'Internet says that the theory that Meda slew herself came from NGL Hammond. I will do some more digging to find out where he said th...
- Sat May 18, 2024 10:37 am
- Forum: Art and Culture
- Topic: Bettany Hughes - Bulgaria
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1060
Re: Bettany Hughes - Bulgaria
Anyway, we were also told that Queen Meda, Philip's sixth wife, threw herself on Philip's funeral pyre. And the evidence for this? Not given. A quick look around on t'Internet says that the theory that Meda slew herself came from NGL Hammond. I will do some more digging to find out where he said th...
- Sun May 12, 2024 3:58 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Herculaneum papyri
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4500
Re: Herculaneum papyri
There is a programme tonight (Channel 5 9 pm) where Professor Alice Roberts talks to Brent Searles about this work. It should be good. I hope it is - my friend made the programme! :-) It is worth noting that the programme is called "The Lost Scrolls of Pompeii", but they were in fact from...
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 7:26 pm
- Forum: Comments, help, suggestions etc
- Topic: New pages
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1462
Re: New pages
Hi Marcus, if you would like to start on something I would like to revise the mini-biographies that are currently online (eg the Olympias one is just wrong as she did not rule Macedonia for three decades!) it would be a help if you could make a start on this. Heckel's Who's Who, which you can downl...
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 7:23 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Netflix’s Alexander..
- Replies: 15
- Views: 3795
Re: Netflix’s Alexander..
There were a LOT of liberties taken, many all about cost. For example, the (daughter) Barsine is too old because it's apparently super-expensive to bring minors onto a set. And there aren't nearly enough people, even guards for Alexander, due to lack of money. They couldn't afford a lot that was su...
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 10:48 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Cheronea ,The Protagonistes
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1625
Re: Cheronea ,THE CAMPAIGN OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT
THE MIDDLE PART OF THE INSCIPTION ( i think it is a very important incription ) This is uncanny, because I have literally just spent the last hour looking at that very same inscription ... then logged on to Pothos and there's the translation from your catalogue. If you're interested in the original...
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 6:43 pm
- Forum: Comments, help, suggestions etc
- Topic: New pages
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1462
Re: New pages
You should see a new link along the top of the page - 'About pothos.org'. I've discovered a few toys I can play about with, so you may see some changes! We now have plenty of space on the new host, so I may upload some translations, photos. The main pages of the site really need updating as well, s...
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 2:26 pm
- Forum: Art and Culture
- Topic: Metal button found in Denmark
- Replies: 3
- Views: 999
Re: Metal button found in Denmark
System1988 found this item about a Roman-era shield button bearing an image of Alexander. It was found in Denmark by metal detectorists. https://greekreporter.com/2024/04/12/bronze-fitting-depicting-alexander-the-great-found-in-denmark/#:~:text=The%20discovery%20was%20made%20by,face%20of%20Alexande...