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- Sun Dec 30, 2007 5:47 am
- Forum: 'Off-topic' forum
- Topic: Help with a Greek Word
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4554
Help with a Greek Word
Hi All, While not Alexander-related, I was wondering if I could get a little help in coming up with a word in ancient Greek? In English, it needs to mean some permutation of 'the dwellers beneath'. I understand 'troglodyte' (in Greek) is fairly close, but I'm trying to avoid using that word because ...
- Fri Aug 17, 2007 8:33 pm
- Forum: Book reviews
- Topic: Mary Renault's Alexander
- Replies: 68
- Views: 22133
- Thu Aug 09, 2007 5:55 am
- Forum: Book reviews
- Topic: A Bit of Shameless Self-Promo
- Replies: 19
- Views: 8254
Amyntoros, I'm happy to hear you enjoyed the book! And thanks for the kind words. If the scene in Rhodes is the one I'm thinking about, then I think that's the scene that sold the book to my publisher -- it made her bawl on the subway ;) I understand what you're saying, especially about Artabazus. T...
- Sun Aug 05, 2007 12:25 am
- Forum: Book reviews
- Topic: A Bit of Shameless Self-Promo
- Replies: 19
- Views: 8254
Thanks Vergina, Derek, and Jan! Jan, Memnon was originally published in hardcover in the US, but it's from a smaller publisher (no where near the size of Transworld, which is a division of Random House). Most bookstores should be able to order a copy, or there's always Amazon ;) My future releases (...
- Mon Jul 30, 2007 6:48 am
- Forum: Book reviews
- Topic: A Bit of Shameless Self-Promo
- Replies: 19
- Views: 8254
Thanks, Ruthaki! And belated thanks for the postcard from Greece :) It's sitting on my desk where I can see it -- so it can remind me to return to Antiquity once I'm done working on my Arabian Nights pastiche (I still have a couple of Greek books in me . . . and maybe a Roman one, too -- lol). Best,...
- Mon Jul 30, 2007 6:13 am
- Forum: Book reviews
- Topic: A Bit of Shameless Self-Promo
- Replies: 19
- Views: 8254
- Sat Jul 28, 2007 5:48 am
- Forum: Book reviews
- Topic: A Bit of Shameless Self-Promo
- Replies: 19
- Views: 8254
Thanks Theseus, Paralus, and Semiramis :) Paralus, you forgot pizza deliverin', beer-drinkin' clerk-boy . . . from Alabama . When it comes to resources for researching the ancient world, Alabama pretty much ranks at the bottom of the heap. All I can say is thank god for the internet. Transworld wasn...
- Fri Jul 27, 2007 9:01 pm
- Forum: Book reviews
- Topic: A Bit of Shameless Self-Promo
- Replies: 19
- Views: 8254
A Bit of Shameless Self-Promo
Hi All, I've been lurking for the most part, but I thought I'd step out for a time-honored bit of horn tooting :) If you live in the UK, parts of the EU, SA or Aus, then beginning August 1st my novel Memnon should be available in bookstores. From the back cover: In the 4th century BC, the Mediterran...
- Sun Apr 01, 2007 7:25 pm
- Forum: Alexander's contemporaries
- Topic: Confusion about the number of Bagoases
- Replies: 12
- Views: 6081
Ramblings . . .
Well, I learn something new every day :) Personally, I would have never imagined Bagoas the Kingmaker to be Egyptian, though now I'm curious as to what his true name was since 'Bagoas' isn't even remotely an Egyptian name (makes a case for it being the Greek version of the Persian word for 'eunuch',...
- Sat Mar 31, 2007 7:49 pm
- Forum: Alexander's contemporaries
- Topic: Confusion about the number of Bagoases
- Replies: 12
- Views: 6081
- Fri Mar 30, 2007 7:30 am
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Justin's comparison of Philip and Alexander
- Replies: 100
- Views: 31228
Here is what confuses me about our extant sources: how do we know these ancient authors weren’t any less biased than their modern counterparts? An author is the product of his or her times, of their environment, and no matter the arena – religious or secular – an element of personal bias is bound to...
- Tue Mar 27, 2007 7:18 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Effeminate?
- Replies: 28
- Views: 10943
James Davidson's excellent and very accessible book Courtesans and Fishcakes: The Consuming Passions of Classical Athens covers the subject of homoerotic relationships very well, I think. One thing that struck me from reading it is that male/male relationships were not universally 'Greek', but accep...
- Fri Mar 23, 2007 7:53 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Did Alexander learn the persian language?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3746
If I recall correctly, at the Sogdian Rock Alexander's interpreter was Cophen, one of the sons of Artabazus; all of old Artabazus' children were supposedly bi-lingual (for all we know, it was Barsine who served as translator between Alexander and Sisygambis). I wonder, though, if they spoke Persian ...
- Fri Mar 23, 2007 2:42 pm
- Forum: 'Off-topic' forum
- Topic: Greek Treachery Defeated the 300
- Replies: 20
- Views: 7424
- Thu Mar 22, 2007 5:15 am
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Concrete Evidence
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4408
Re: Proof
Alexandria in Egypt was mostly built by Alexander's successors, rather than by himself, so just going the name isn't, strictly speaking, "concrete" proof. Isn't there a saying in archaeology: "Absence of evidence isn't evidence of absence"? I've gotten into similar arguments wit...