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- Tue Apr 23, 2024 4:54 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Netflix’s Alexander..
- Replies: 15
- Views: 3086
Re: Netflix’s Alexander..
But if lot of liberties were taken because of the lack of money, why Netflix added a lot of nonsense to Alexander's history, such as the old Egyptian priestess, the Persians playing polo, Alexander begging the Persian governor of Egypt on his knees, and so on? Is it necessary to tell so many lies on...
- Sun Apr 07, 2024 5:34 am
- Forum: Book reviews
- Topic: Myth, Genesis and Sexuality by Daniel Ogden
- Replies: 13
- Views: 6209
Re: Myth, Genesis and Sexuality by Daniel Ogden
Right, writers weren't interested in intimate details of men's relationship, but they were very interested in royal behaviour and who exercised power. Hephaestion was taller and more handsome than Alexander and it might have appeared that he held the power in their relationship. Therefore ancient wr...
- Thu Apr 04, 2024 5:37 pm
- Forum: Book reviews
- Topic: Myth, Genesis and Sexuality by Daniel Ogden
- Replies: 13
- Views: 6209
Re: Myth, Genesis and Sexuality by Daniel Ogden
You are right, for this reason Alexander rebuked openly Hephaestion, but "in private" Crateros, when they quarrelled (Plut. Life of Alex. 47, 11). But there is another school of thought suggesting that subsequent or Roman writers have erased the sexual partnership between Alexander and Hep...
- Tue Apr 02, 2024 9:02 pm
- Forum: Book reviews
- Topic: Myth, Genesis and Sexuality by Daniel Ogden
- Replies: 13
- Views: 6209
Re: Myth, Genesis and Sexuality by Daniel Ogden
On the relationship between Alexander and Hephaestion I found a passage particularly interesting in James Davidson, The Greeks & Greek Love, London 2007 (Phoenix), pp. 373-379. I like above all this quote: "Alexander's relationship with Hephaestion really does stand out. The combination of ...
- Sun Mar 03, 2024 2:31 am
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Netflix’s Alexander..
- Replies: 15
- Views: 3086
Re: Netflix’s Alexander..
I watched the whole of the Netflix series on Alexander and I'm upset and angry. I read comments on many mistakes of the series (army, tactics, dress and so on), but I think the whole planning is wrong: its true headline should have been "Alexander Romance". Even the so-called 'experts' had...
- Fri Feb 23, 2024 6:30 am
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Dionysius of Halikarnassos
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4681
Re: Dionysius of Halikarnassos
Hegesias of Magnesia (a rhetorician founder of 'asianism', a flowery literary current) lived in III century B.C., Dionysius of Halikarnassos (who supported 'atticism' an opposite literary current) in I cent. B.C. Therefore Dionysius quoted Hegesias.
- Sun Jan 07, 2024 2:08 am
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Johannes of Hildesheim and Alexander
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3338
Johannes of Hildesheim and Alexander
Today is Epiphany and I found a legend about this Christian holiday. Johannes of Hildesheim (Germany) a Carmelite monk (1310-1375 A.D.), in his book 'Historia Trium Regum (History of Three Kings, i.e.the Magi)', told a legend connected with the gold given to the Child Jesus by Melchior. He said the ...
- Thu Oct 05, 2023 6:25 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Herculaneum papyri
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4164
Re: Herculaneum papyri
Hi Dean, your questions are very interesting. In ancient times memory was more developed than ours and oral tradition was the main way to hand down names, deeds, poems, customs, and history. But 'oral' doesn't mean 'incorrect', 'wrong' or 'imprecise': sometimes memory is better than writing, as you ...
- Thu Jun 01, 2023 12:37 am
- Forum: Topics for study
- Topic: Timeline of Alexander's Life - Brief
- Replies: 2
- Views: 7338
Re: Timeline of Alexander's Life - Brief
I remember the debate we held here in pothos about the birthday of Alexander, some time ago. There were astronomical dates supporting July 20, but I don't know any argument for July 26. Does Nick have this date on good authority? Thanks.
- Fri Mar 03, 2023 6:43 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Dissertation on the Ancient and Modern Treatment of ATG
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3148
Re: Dissertation on the Ancient and Modern Treatment of ATG
Thank you very much. I tried over and over, and in the end I succeeded in seeing the whole document. Till now I read only the Appendix V "Hephaestion": it seems to me not so dark as I feared and not so new as I wished. When I'll read the rest I'll tell what I think of this study. Best rega...
- Thu Mar 02, 2023 2:12 am
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Dissertation on the Ancient and Modern Treatment of ATG
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3148
Re: Dissertation on the Ancient and Modern Treatment of ATG
Sorry, I can't open the link!
- Tue Feb 14, 2023 10:51 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Alexander, Hephaestion and "twinship"
- Replies: 0
- Views: 3973
Alexander, Hephaestion and "twinship"
"Psichologists give the label "twinship" to the relationship that lies behind friendships of this intensity. Twinship can be viewed as a special form of narcissistic link, protecting an individual from feelings of dependency and helplessness. Clinical research has shown that in the &q...
- Fri Jan 27, 2023 6:40 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Plutarch: The Education of Children
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2135
Re: Plutarch: The Education of Children
After the end of India's expedition there were many rumors about Alexander returning to Greece, for many reasons: the flight of Harpalos, the exiles' decree and its consequences, e.g. Athens unwillingness to leave Samos (that fosterered the offer of Gorgos to Alexander of suits of armour for the sie...
- Sat Jan 21, 2023 4:18 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Plutarch: The Education of Children
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2135
Re: Plutarch: The Education of Children
Plutarch quotes this passage as an example of inability to control tongue. The rhetorician Theocritus of Chios was at loggerheads with Alexander, but, above all with Antigonus, the One-Eyed. Alexander wished that his companions wore Persian purple clothes, but his wish was misinterpreted in many way...
- Sun Dec 11, 2022 6:37 pm
- Forum: Art and Culture
- Topic: An alleged head of Hephaestion
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1804
Re: An alleged head of Hephaestion
Very interesting. I'll ask two questions about this head: 1) What is the dating. 2) I see a groove in the hair: is it possible he wore a diadema?
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