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by hiphys
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...
by hiphys
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.
by hiphys
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?
by hiphys
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...
by hiphys
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...
by hiphys
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...
by hiphys
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 ...
by hiphys
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...
by hiphys
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 ...
by hiphys
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...
by hiphys
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...
by hiphys
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.
by hiphys
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,...
by hiphys
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)?
by hiphys
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.