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- Mon Nov 24, 2014 6:27 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Cleitarchus (and others?) in Diodorus
- Replies: 24
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Re: Cleitarchus (and others?) in Diodorus
No, would be a short answer! But to treat your suggestion with the respect it deserves; no, IMHO, Diodoros does seem to choose a single source for the periods into which he chooses to divide his work, and to a certain extent the boundaries of these sources condition his book boundaries. It would, h...
- Sat Nov 22, 2014 9:11 am
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Cleitarchus (and others?) in Diodorus
- Replies: 24
- Views: 8898
Re: The Sphinxes Guarding the Lion Tomb Entrance at Amphipolis
Once you admit that Diodorus could put his own slant on his narrative, and drop in details from his background reading, don't you have to admit that he was writing history from a main source not writing a summary? It is common to write history from a main source, but that is very different from writ...
- Fri Nov 21, 2014 4:56 pm
- Forum: Art and Culture
- Topic: Greek horses
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3372
Re: Greek horses
Yes, a colleague of mine just completed a PhD thesis on the subject. She would be able to say how that horse compared to Greek, steppe, and Median types, but I don't have that skill. It is a big horse! The image of a rider leading a horse with one arm across its withers reminds me of that relief fro...
- Fri Nov 21, 2014 4:52 pm
- Forum: 'Off-topic' forum
- Topic: New Member Welcomes and Introductions
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3955
Re: Conspiracy against Philotas By Waldemar Heckel
My posting on RAT trailed off over the past three or four years, while I've stumbled across pothos now and then. My own research has taken me further and further from the Roman army, so even if that forum had not changed I am not sure how much I would have to say there! I confess that I have not had...
- Mon Nov 17, 2014 6:36 pm
- Forum: Alexander's contemporaries
- Topic: Conspiracy against Philotas By Waldemar Heckel
- Replies: 42
- Views: 55749
Re: Conspiracy against Philotas By Waldemar Heckel
I was reading this thread, as this issue has always fascinated me. In the end, histories, theories aside Alexander ran an army. That required rules and the application of discipline else, well, we all know what happens when insubordination occurs... Philotas, a very highly ranked officer, a general...