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According to Plutarch (Life of Alexander 53, 1), Callisthenes declared that himself accompanied Alexander in Asia in order to persuade the king to rebuild the city of Olynthus and repopulate it with its former inhabitants.

Thank you, sean_m and Paralus! I was in urgent need of your help! When debating on history it's necessary not only to use the correct chronology, but I think we'd distinguish accurately astronomy from astrology. When I say that Plutarch's date for Alexander's birth means the king was born in the con...

An important point is that Plutarch’s (or Cleitarchus’s or Timaeus’s) date for Alexander’s birth means the king was born when the Sun was in the constellation of Leo the lion (i.e. his star sign was Leo). This is why Alexander is strongly associated with lions and why he wore his hair in a style th...

Today, anniversary of the Battle of Gaugamela, I found another link with news, photos, and video concerning the archaeological mission, called "Land of Nineveh" that discovered the site of the famous Battle: http://www.nationalgeographic.it/.../ar ... _sco.../1/

Very beautiful building! I wonder if there is left something of the furnishings.

Thanks for the replies, and particularly for Alexias' link.

Reading A. Chugg, Concerning Alexander the Great. A Reconstruction of Cleitarchus (2015), I found an interesting piece of information. In the chapter "The Date of Alexander's Birth", he writes: "Hence we can say that Alexander was born on 20th July 356 BC in the JULIAN CALENDAR (capit...

Sorry, I forgot the quote of Euripides' Heracles verses number: 151, and 156-164.

In ancient Greek world hunting was the activity practised in place of war, but with the same rules of war. Mostly war was fought for the supremacy of a city-state over another city-state, of an army over another army, of a man over another man. Therefore the main target was to scare the enemy, not t...

The correct spelling of the river is PINARUS.

Professor Daniele Morandi Bonacossi (University of Udine, Italy) has found the place where Alexander defeated Darius for the second time at Gaugamela. The site is called now Tell Gamel and he found here many hellenistic reliefs with winged victories, horsemen, and Argead stars. See: www.archeostorie...

I found some maps of this campaign in the books of N.G.L. Hammond. The last of these books I bought is: 'The Genius of Alexander the Great', London 1997. The maps are at page 33 (the Balkan area) and 38 (The manoeuvres at Pelium). Sorry, I'm not able to post a photo...

Yes, you are right, homonoia is connected also with "alla agathà", because it is impossible to do otherwise. The sentence indeed is made to stress that "Alexander, besides the normal good things he was accustomed to pray for", prayed also for two new and special things, i.e. &quo...

I'll try to answer to your last question:"Yes, the two words homonoia and koinonia are related IMHO to " Makedosi kai Persais". Don't mind if the standard given by LSJ or other dictionaries shows only the construction of homonoia with "pros + accusative". Dictionaries show v...

Very interesting, thank you Pauline! I tried to read the inscription but I miss some letters. I'm not very good with III c.B.C. cursive writing.