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- Sun May 26, 2024 12:12 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Alexander's Last Days: Chronological Source Rearrangement (without the poison narrative and the romances)
- Replies: 28
- Views: 436
Re: Alexander's Last Days: Chronological Source Rearrangement (without the poison narrative and the romances)
It doesn't matter why there were such diseases and illnesses, but if and how it was possible to heal, without antibiotics and other modern medicines.
- Sat May 25, 2024 5:39 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Alexander's Last Days: Chronological Source Rearrangement (without the poison narrative and the romances)
- Replies: 28
- Views: 436
Re: Alexander's Last Days: Chronological Source Rearrangement (without the poison narrative and the romances)
We can't compare diseases in the age of Alexander with the ones of our times; for this reason I quoted William Osler, a doctor of early XX cent., who knew nothing of antibiotics, X-rays, ultrasounds and blood transfusions. Besides , it is universally known that in ancient times there were more death...
- Fri May 24, 2024 8:17 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Alexander's Last Days: Chronological Source Rearrangement (without the poison narrative and the romances)
- Replies: 28
- Views: 436
Re: Alexander's Last Days: Chronological Source Rearrangement (without the poison narrative and the romances)
Let me insist on pneumonia (or better on a sum of causes, pneumonia among them). In 1901 (not 2024!) William Osler wrote: "The most widespread and fateful of all acute diseases, pneumonia is now the 'Captain of the Men of Death', to use the phrase applied by John Bunyan to consumpion" (Wil...
- Thu May 23, 2024 6:16 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Alexander's Last Days: Chronological Source Rearrangement (without the poison narrative and the romances)
- Replies: 28
- Views: 436
Re: Alexander's Last Days: Chronological Source Rearrangement (without the poison narrative and the romances)
No, Hephaestion died after Craterus' departure from Opis/Ecbatana. I rather wonder why AdamKvanta don't mention among the possible cause of pneumonia in Alexander's illness the chest wound in the Malloi city, perhaps with pneumothorax complications.
- Mon May 20, 2024 7:07 am
- Forum: Alexander's contemporaries
- Topic: Itanes - Roxane's brother
- Replies: 5
- Views: 9780
Re: Itanes - Roxane's brother
It seems very likely that the marriages between Macedonians and Bactrian women took place: after all the tradition of intermarriages was a long practice in Macedonia (and even in arcaic Greece). Besides, there is even in Curtius a hint of this fact, before Alexander wedding of Roxane; he says "...
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 4:54 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Netflix’s Alexander..
- Replies: 15
- Views: 3757
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: 7008
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: 7008
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: 7008
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: 3757
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: 4904
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: 3512
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: 7
- Views: 4491
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: 7607
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: 3263
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...