pothos.org

I would hesitate to put "Alexander had a bipolar disorder" on a list of myths. The problem here is that he did exhibit some strong traits of the disorder.I am pretty certain that I first saw this mentioned in ATG The Invisible Enemy by John Maxwell O'Brien. I remember thinking that this wa...

Hello Susan:Here is the link:http://www.american-pictures.com/geneal ... 2.htmThere aren't any further links to any page outside of the genealogy charts, so unfortunately it is impossible to find out who created this, or why.Linda Ann

Poor Olympias! I have to believe that she was a desirable woman in her youth, but history has painted such an unfavorable portrait of her that it's not difficult to poke fun. :-)The book, Philip of Macedon by Ekdotike Athenon, has a geneology chart that gives Kleopatra's date of birth as 353. Unfort...

Hello Susan. Well I wasn't holding out for other mentions of Aristion, but there was always hope! As it stands, if I had aspirations to write, I think he would be a good subject for a first-person short story on Alexander (not enough for a novel). Aristion was beautiful, had a relationship with Demo...

.... I'm being cynical here, but I believe that if the wife died at a young age in childbirth, then there wasn't a big investment in her either emotionally or financially and the husband could just try again. Of course, the wife's family, who might have secured their finances and status through the ...

Hello to Susan, Nick and Sikander: I have been gratefully pouring over your responses today - giving new meaning to "crunching the numbers!" What little information I could find regarding the birth of Darius generally gives the year as 380 or 381. With Stateira born around 360 and taking S...

This is from Aeschines' speech "Against Ctesiphon" in 330 BC. Ctesiphon had proposed honoring Demosthenes with a gold crown six year's earlier and although this speech is supposed to be a (delayed?) response, it is really an attack on Demosthenes. The following extract though, has mention ...

Susan, thanks for a very well thought out response. I had considered that Roxane *could* have been as young as 12 - in my own family history back in good ol' Doncaster, there were marriages of females (and pregnancies) in the 1960's and 70's where the girls were only 15 or 16. And at the risk of bei...

I forgot - I found a real bit of Alexander related trivia yesterday. My local library had a sale, and I skimmed through the National Geographic magazines and bought anything of interest. In March 2000 they had their third in a series of articles on Ancient Greece - this one being a piece about Alexa...

How about 'information' on Alexander that is already written down, albeit in modern fiction? You could take "Alexander slept with snakes" from Renault, and "Alexander had a panic disorder" from Doherty. (That last one makes me groan just writing it down.)Here's one of my own: Ale...

There were two sisters here in the US who have written advice columns for decades - Ann Landers and Dear Abby. (Ann Landers died last year.) Whenever there are any letters written regarding epilepsy or being left-handed, Alexander is included in the lists of famous people in the response. The column...

I do agree - this is about Stone's fantasies. He obviously had the costumers dream up something that would look likely to shock the Macedonian troops. Unfortunately - unless I'm greatly mistaken - it was the simplicity of Alexander's "Persianized" costume that truly disturbed them. Plutarc...

Colin hasn't confined his "exposure" to the set. Apparently, he took it out so often in his hotel bar that he upset Angelina Jolie and had to move hotels! (This little gem from the Oliver Stone forum.)As for the costumes - so is this supposed to be Alexander in Persianized dress? More mode...

Well, I had been guilty myself for posting on another forum that Hephaistion might have been poisoned at the end of his illness - and I put forward Roxane as a possible culprit! Only later did I realize that it was a suggestion from Mary Renault that had stayed in my subconcious for years.Just today...

The appears to be a quote about Alexander's voice in Aeilian. I knew I had read about it somewhere in a modern source, but couldn't find it - then I checked Renault's The Nature of Alexander. She says:"As a boy, he played and sang to the lyre; for this we have first-hand evidence from one who h...