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- Fri Sep 02, 2022 2:34 am
- Forum: Alexander's contemporaries
- Topic: Hephaiston's death
- Replies: 21
- Views: 34232
Re: Hephaiston's death
I don't understand why no one ever tought about a possible pulmonary embolism for the sudden death of Hephaestion. Even Mary Renault, herself a nurse, believed that Hephaestion died too fast. Death by peritonitis may occur within a few days indeed, but by pulmonary embolism (or even intestinal ische...
- Wed Aug 24, 2022 3:13 pm
- Forum: Book reviews
- Topic: The Young Alexander by Alex Rowson
- Replies: 4
- Views: 7657
Re: The Young Alexander by Alex Rowson
Dear Alexias, thank you for recommending this book: it's full of archaeological exaustive footnotes, all of them up to date. I read it and learnt a lot of things that I didn't know before. Very useful indeed.
- Wed Aug 24, 2022 3:00 pm
- Forum: 'Off-topic' forum
- Topic: Epigraphies from Argos PART 3
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3619
Re: Epigraphies from Argos PART 3
Dear Pauline, thank you for posting this transcription of a bronze plaque found in Argos. In line 8-9 there is a name very interesting: Aischylos Temenidas. Was he too a true descendant of Herakles and a relative of the royal family of Macedonia?
- Thu Jul 21, 2022 1:53 am
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: If music be the food of love...
- Replies: 6
- Views: 6716
Re: If music be the food of love...
Aischines (Against Timarchus 1, 168) as a eyewitness, described the performance of Alexander during a symposium (held in Pella in 346 B. C.), before the Greek ambassadors. He was ten years old: "...[Demosthenes] was describing the boy Alexander, telling how, at a certain banquet of ours, he pla...
- Sun Jul 10, 2022 10:33 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: If music be the food of love...
- Replies: 6
- Views: 6716
Re: If music be the food of love...
According to Plutarch (Life of Alexander 29, 1-6), Alexander was very fond of tragedy, comedy and other poetic contests. When he stopped in Phoenicia - after the foundation of Alexandria and before the battle of Gaugamela - he arranged splendid spectacles of this kind. The two kings of Cyprus, Nicoc...
- Fri Jun 10, 2022 10:16 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Alexander's greatest moment
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4051
Alexander's greatest moment
Alexander the Great died 2345 years ago. Someone wondered what was his single greatest moment and answered his victory at Gaugamela. But I don't think so: for me his best moments are all in his last year of life, such as his marriage at Susa together with 90 Companions and 10. 000 soldiers ; the int...
- Thu Feb 10, 2022 6:40 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: New members: Ask a question
- Replies: 15
- Views: 13099
Re: New members: Ask a question
A.B. Bosworth (From Arrian to Alexander. Studies in Historical Interpretation, Oxford 1988, p. 119, n.110) stresses that Arrian had no liking for Callisthenes, because he lived in a totally different age (II A. D.) when imperial power, authority, and etiquette was well established and no one called ...
- Mon Dec 27, 2021 5:08 pm
- Forum: Book reviews
- Topic: Memories of Hephaestion A R Valeson
- Replies: 4
- Views: 5397
Re: Memories of Hephaestion A R Valeson
Recently I read a lot of novels about Alexander the Great (and Hephaestion), and 'Memoirs of Hephaestion', by Valeson, was one of them. But I can't tell I liked it. I liked best another novel by Sigrid SIMMS, 'Lion of Macedon. The life of Alexander the Great', (2020). It tells the whole life of Alex...
- Wed Jan 06, 2021 5:50 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: The inscription of Bahariya temple
- Replies: 4
- Views: 6056
Re: The inscription of Bahariya temple
Thank you, Alexias, and your tenacious memory! I forgot completely the lecture of Mr. Robin Lane Fox that you kindly posted on pothos.org in 2013. Nevertheless I think that the paper of F. Bosch-Puche is known too little, till now. Even when I read it for the first time, ten years ago, my attention ...
- Sun Jan 03, 2021 5:47 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: The inscription of Bahariya temple
- Replies: 4
- Views: 6056
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 misla...
- Fri Sep 18, 2020 2:35 pm
- Forum: Philip and Alexander's predecessors
- Topic: Philip and Illirian women habits
- Replies: 0
- Views: 10459
Philip and Illirian women habits
I'm reading the book "Alexander the Great: a New History", by W. Heckel and L. A. Tritle, Wiley-Blackwell 2011, and I found a quote of the chapter 10, by Elizabeth D. Carney, very interesting. She writes:" Cynnane was trained to fight as a warrior (...) and would train her daughter in...
- Sun Jun 14, 2020 6:04 pm
- Forum: Philip and Alexander's predecessors
- Topic: Demosthenes by Ian Worthington and buddies
- Replies: 7
- Views: 11258
Re: Demosthenes by Ian Worthington and buddies
By the way, I think actually no one of our ancient sources allow us to stretch Aristion's presence at Alexander's court more than 331 b. C.
- Sat Jun 13, 2020 4:40 pm
- Forum: Philip and Alexander's predecessors
- Topic: Demosthenes by Ian Worthington and buddies
- Replies: 7
- Views: 11258
Re: Demosthenes by Ian Worthington and buddies
Thank you, Dean! Your quote of Worthington is very interesting. If I interpret well his opinion, Demosthenes didn't restrict himself to sending Aristion to Hephaestion, but he managed to keep him "to live with Alexander's close friend". I wonder whether he had to play the hostage, as well,...
- Fri Jun 05, 2020 10:16 am
- Forum: Philip and Alexander's predecessors
- Topic: Demosthenes by Ian Worthington and buddies
- Replies: 7
- Views: 11258
Re: Demosthenes by Ian Worthington and buddies
Is in this book any hint of Aristion, the man Demosthenes sent to Hephaestion - according to Diyllus - for the purpose of a reconciliation with Alexander (Jacoby, FGrHist 135 F 2)?
- Sat Mar 28, 2020 11:42 am
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Xenophon
- Replies: 11
- Views: 9647
Re: Xenophon
Very sad news, indeed. I read a lot of interesting comments by him, here. Rest in peace, Paul.