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Thanks Azara.Checked the book out - not the one! It definitely wasn't contemporaneous with Alexander. From memory it was set (at the earliest) in the twenty first century (which in the seventies was like my view then of my current age - a long way off!).That novel sounds an interesting "what if...

Don't know if any other Pothosians can help here.Many moons ago I read a novel. I believe it may have been science-fiction but am not certain. The premise was that Alexander had not died and that the Macedonian - or better put, Alexandrian - Empire had not fragmented. The dynasty was secured and the...

Yes Kenny, the sources say almost that:"Now Spithridates had his scimitar raised, ready for a blow at Alexander from behind; but Clietus ("The Black"), son of Dropidas, was too quick for him and severed his shoulder scimitar and all" (Arrian, 1.16)Problem is, it happened some thr...

I believe I'd have to agree with you Karl - or Agesilaos.I'd have to admit to being well into a bottle of Shiraz (the amount of which consumed during a film indicates how it is playing - bad film/more red) by the time Gaugamela made it to screen in Stone's 'epic'. The compression of Granicus/Issus/G...

It really matters not the length of the film. It matters most the quality of the film. That quality defined by what? In a 'director's cut' (and I've not seen it) one would expect that it is defined by the director. To paraphrase Paul Cartledge ("Alexander The Great") the "conceit"...

Yes, I'd find it hard to see how rates of cellular mutaion could be well enough understood to be predictive in terms of time lines - forward or back. As to those other "dating techniques" you so eloquently describe "Agesilaos", I think you may be on to some dating methodology tha...

Given that Erbil (near enough to Gaugamela) lies some 90 km north of Kirkuk, we could reasonably surmise that the two share reasonably similar climes?Not certain if there is any great difference of altitude (relief maps indicate the battlefield is as described: a plain between "the two rivers&q...

Evidently a posting limit? (And no, html and hyperlinks not allowed) The end follows...Possibly a short scene or two illustrating the slaughter of the Thebans (and subsequent razing of Thebes) and of some eighteen thousand Greek mercenaries in the Persian army at Granicus may have knocked the ideali...

I saw the cinematic version in what is termed a "cine-lounge". Comfortable lounge chairs, food and drink. Having begun with a light beer and nachos, I soon found the need for a bottle of Shiraz. The experience from an historical point of view was frustrating at best and downright misleadin...