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- Fri Mar 29, 2024 9:50 am
- Forum: 'Off-topic' forum
- Topic: Well, I'm back . . .
- Replies: 1
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Re: Well, I'm back . . .
Hi Scott, welcome back. With all the changeover issues, and notifications going into my junk folder, I've only just seen this. Hope your book goes well and we'll see you around. Our ranks are sadly depleted these days!
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 3:17 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Pothos now inherited by Alexias and on a new server.
- Replies: 12
- Views: 207
Re: Pothos now inherited by Alexias and on a new server.
Thank you very much, Thomas, for all your hard work. I am most grateful.
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 9:19 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Pothos now inherited by Alexias and on a new server.
- Replies: 12
- Views: 207
Re: Winding down pothos/Keeping Pothos alive!
The 'Comments, help, suggestions' board isn't showing up unless you log in.
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 3:04 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Pothos now inherited by Alexias and on a new server.
- Replies: 12
- Views: 207
Re: Winding down pothos/Keeping Pothos alive!
Hi all, Thank you for your patience while we deal with this issue on the website. The initial problem was that spam bots were causing too many hits on the site and exceeding Thomas's allowed bandwidth usage. In order to preserve the site in its current state, and to ensure that it continues to be av...
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 7:46 am
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Pothos now inherited by Alexias and on a new server.
- Replies: 12
- Views: 207
Re: Winding down pothos
Thomas and I are discussing the process of transferring the site to me. I will freeze the boards so you won't be able to post anything until it is completed.
Many thanks to Thomas for hosting the site for so long.
Many thanks to Thomas for hosting the site for so long.
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 10:14 pm
- Forum: Art and Culture
- Topic: Image of Alexander in an aegis
- Replies: 0
- Views: 37
Image of Alexander in an aegis
This is a test to see if I can post a photo as there may be an issue. I don't remember where I got this photo from.
- Tue Mar 19, 2024 8:37 pm
- Forum: Alexander Sources
- Topic: Strabo - Intro
- Replies: 0
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Strabo - Intro
The Geography of Strabo Literally translated with notes. The first six books by H. C. Hamilton, Esq.The remainder by W. Falconer, M.A. Published by Henry G. Bohn, London, 1856 NOTICE. The present translation of Strabo, the great Geographer of Antiquity, is the first which has been laid before the E...
- Tue Mar 19, 2024 7:46 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Boeotian helmet
- Replies: 1
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Boeotian helmet
As a follow up to System1988's Chaeronea posts, a helmet worn by one of Alexander's cavalrymen. I can't remember if I've posted this before but it is from Oxford's Ashmolean museum.
Wonder if he survived for Gaugamela, or whether he drowned?
Wonder if he survived for Gaugamela, or whether he drowned?
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 10:19 pm
- Forum: Alexander Sources
- Topic: Athenaeus - Deipnosophists Book XV
- Replies: 0
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Athenaeus - Deipnosophists Book XV
Athenaeus - Deipnosophists Book XV Book XV. 683 b First, roses which Midas of Odonia, when he left his realm in Asia, grew in the Emathian* glebes, roses ever luxuriant with sixty petals all round. * Emathia, poetic name of Macedonia. Book XV 684 e A flower called ambrosia is recorded by Carystius ...
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 10:18 pm
- Forum: Alexander Sources
- Topic: Athenaeus - Deipnosophists Book XIV
- Replies: 0
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Athenaeus - Deipnosophists Book XIV
Athenaeus - Deipnosophists Book XIV Book XIV. 614 d - 615 a Hippolochus of Macedon, again, in his Letter to Lynceus mentions as jesters Mandrogenes and Straton of Athens. For at Athens there was an abundance of these clever gentry. At any rate, in the temple of Heracles, in the deme Diomeia, they w...
- Sun Mar 17, 2024 10:26 pm
- Forum: Alexander Sources
- Topic: Athenaeus - Deipnosophists Book XIIIb
- Replies: 0
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Athenaeus - Deipnosophists Book XIIIb
Athenaeus - Deipnosophists Book XIIIb Book XIII. 594 d – 596 b Harpalus, the Macedonian who plundered large sums from Alexander’s funds and then sought refuge in Athens, fell in love with Pythionice and squandered a great deal on her, though she was a courtesan; and when she died he erected a monum...
- Sun Mar 17, 2024 10:23 pm
- Forum: Alexander Sources
- Topic: Athenaeus - Deipnosophists Book XIIIa
- Replies: 0
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Athenaeus - Deipnosophists Book XIIIa
Athenaeus - Deipnosophists Book XIIIa Book XIII 555 a The comic poet Antiphanes, friend Timocrates, was once reading one of his plays to King Alexander, who, however, made it plain that he did not altogether like it. “No wonder, sire,” the poet said; “for the man who likes this play of mine must ha...
- Sun Mar 17, 2024 4:01 pm
- Forum: Book reviews
- Topic: Alexander the Great: A New History
- Replies: 1
- Views: 182
Alexander the Great: A New History
Alexander the Great: A New History edited by Waldemar Heckel and Lawrence A. Tritle This book was originally intended as a quasi-response to Oliver Stone's 2004 film 'Alexander' but it wasn't published until 2009. It is a broad introduction to the study of Alexander, but it is not a book for beginne...
- Sun Mar 17, 2024 3:27 pm
- Forum: Alexander Sources
- Topic: Athenaeus - Deipnosophists Book XII
- Replies: 0
- Views: 35
Athenaeus - Deipnosophists Book XII
Athenaeus - Deipnosophists Book XII Book XII. 513 e – 515 a (On the Persians.) The first men in history to become notorious for luxurious living were the Persians, whose kings wintered in Susa and summered in Ecbatana. (Now Susa was so called, according to Aristobulus and Chares, because of the bea...
- Sun Mar 17, 2024 3:23 pm
- Forum: Alexander Sources
- Topic: Athenaeus - Deipnosophists Book XI
- Replies: 0
- Views: 32
Athenaeus - Deipnosophists Book XI
Athenaeus - Deipnosophists Book XI Note: Book XI starts with sections 459 through 466, jumps to sections 781 through 784, and then returns to section 466. Book XI. 781 f Parmenion, summing up the booty taken from the Persians, in his Letters to Alexander, says: “Gold cups, weight seventy-three Baby...