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Ahh, you are absolutely right Marcus. Of course healthy debate about the 'origins of these ancients' should be discussed freely and without prejudice. In this spirit, I will endeavour to start multiple threads with weighty topics such as:-Why did the ancient sources often claim that the Macedonians ...

The Romans were indeed quite versed in Hellenistic culture. Out of the early emperors Augustus main tutor was a Greek, Tiberius spent many years at the aforementioned Rhodes, Nero granted Greece it's freedom and competed in the Olympics (a farce of course). Of the later emperor's some like Marcus Au...

Hi everyone. I came across this excerpt's of Theopompus in Strabo:"Between Tr+ôzen and Epidaurus, there was a fortress Methana, and a peninsula of the same name. In some copies of Thucydides Methone is the common reading, a place of the same name with the Macedonian city, at the siege of which ...

"he was ignorant, no doubt, of the wise answer given by Alexander the Great to his mother when she was urging him to put to death an innocent person, and in the hope of getting what she wanted reminded him that she had carried him for nine months in her womb. 'Ask some other boon, my good mothe...

Not to mention he has Philip's bust under 'Antipatros' playing card...

This topic has indeed come up before. As it stands, there is no evidence to accurately describe Alexander's hair color. While Plutarch gives him a 'fair' and 'ruddy' skin pigmentation, he doesn't talk about hair color. Also, some sources such as Aelian claim Alexander was 'xanthein', but in ancient ...

heh, heh..it seems that the Athenians may have had your exact same thought, although in not quite so detached of a position:"The story is told that in the drinking after dinner Philip downed a large amount of unmixed wine and forming with his friends a comus in celebration of the victory parade...

You see, that is again a subjective opinion. I do believe that there is 'anti' evidence. For example, along with Alexander's renunciation of the proferred boys (I do not agree with the 'prostitute' angle) would point out something like this:"Affectionate regard for boys of good character was pe...

Hmm, I do believe Efsthathios point is that the alleged bi-sexuality is not an undisputable fact. There are sources that can be interpretated as pro and there are sources that can be interpretated as anti. It really is to the discretion of each individual to weigh the source and context, and come to...

"Affectionate regard for boys of good character was permissible, but embracing them was held to be disgraceful, on the ground that the affection was for the body and not for the mind. Any man against whom complaint was made of any disgraceful embracing was deprived of all civic rights for life....

Hi Marcus,I absolutely believe that Shakespeare was an Anglophone and Englands greatest poet. Tino,(Hopefully making some kind of point...)

You insult yourself with the drivel you post here time after time. You can repeat your garbage a hundred times, and seeing how this site is about ATG and the ancient Greeks (including the Macedonians, no doubt about it) it just means a hundred messages I'll ignore...

Well, it looks like the cat is out of the bag spoiling for another fight. So be it."The underlying point to your post is that the Makedones spoke 'Greek'. As all the above speak English. I find this comment difficult to separate from points of view's which are considered undesirable by others o...

Curtius may have used Alexander to criticize the despotic power of the Caesars of his age. He could not very well criticize the Emperors of his age without fear of death, but a famous king centuries past was a safe target to level subtle and not to subtle barbs against the Nero's of his age...

Hello all,I recall a Alexander quote that when asked the secret of his success Alexander replied 'by not putting off until tomorrow what can be done today' or something similar.Anybody know the location of this passage?Thanks in advance.