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I can confirm Liz is working on a trans and commentary of the Metz as we speak. With the glacial pace of publication these days though, it's hard to say when it will be available.. cheers Pat

People tended not to get into 'Alliances' with Alexander. You either submitted unconditionally and he treated you as his whims dictated, or you resisted and were destroyed (though Porus seems to have come out of it more-or-less OK).
Gotta stay realistic about the guy...he wasn't nice!

Craterus has always been underdone by scholars it seems to me; I wrote an Honours Dissertation on him in about 1993 in Western Australia, and one of my lecturers, Norman Ashton, wrote an article on him early in the 90s,which is probably not circulated much, but is very good. Waldemar Heckel's treatm...

Hi Michael, sorry to take so long to reply, I've been in Melbourne for the AFL Grand final, my team made it for a change (but lost, alas!). That is the article, 'The Enigma of Clearchus' indeed, worth reading on the subject, and Sherylee's credentials are impeccable. I'm turning back to Demetrius ve...

Much of Larry Tritle's argument for evidence for PTSD is extremely effectively rebutted by Sherylee Basset in an article in Ancient History Bulletin around 2001 or so; she should know, I'd say, as she's married to a very good psychiatrist, and also has a PhD under A.B. Bosworth (she and I studied to...