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Yeah, the agenda is the publisher hoping book clubs pick up the novel. Ha.

FWIW ... the questions are typically a decision made by the publisher. I don't know who they're aiming it at, but I was asked to provide some for mine. I expect she was, as well. I doubt it's often an author's decision any more than cover choices, back-matter, or (occasionally) even the book's title...

So Tomb I, currently widely thought to be Philip Arrhidaeus and Adea-Eurydike's tomb, A minor correction...I don't know many people at all who thing Tomb *I* is theirs. Tomb II, yes, and quite a few. But not Tomb I. It's pretty well accepted as too early to be theirs, although this new data would m...

Not a book review, but a publishing announcement. Our festschrift for Ed Anson has been released. Some really good chapters in this one. It ain't cheap, but that's par for the academic-publisher course. It's Peeters. Macedon and its Influences: Narratives of Politics and War in Honor of Edward M. An...

Thanks. (On the book.) Hope to spent the summer working further on the Hephaistion-Krateros monograph. Plus a couple other things.

sikander wrote: ↑Sun Apr 13, 2025 11:19 pmOh dear.....

That pretty accurately sums it up, I think. LOLOL

Jonathan Hall has a very interesting (and think probably correct) supposition that Tomb II was actually begun for ALEXANDER shortly after his death, then construction halted when Ptolemy stole the body. It was repurposed by Kassandros so he didn't have to pay for a new one, in order to bury Arrhidai...

This is pretty old. It was made and then never released until, apparently, recently. I looked in vain for a way to get it not long after it came out. I figured it would be quite bad, from what I could see. The fact Sam Heughan is in it is no doubt why it ever saw the light of day.

Interesting, as I JUST downloaded an article by him about Kalanos as a probable Buddhist. Didn't do more than skim it, but I'm intrigued.

All very very interesting. Thanks, folks!

Thanks, Alexias.

The Getty head is, if not an outright forgery, then surely idealized into uselessness as a portrait. Nor is it labeled as Hephaistion. I wish we knew more about the Prado Bronze. It's now IDed as Demetrios P., although when I compare it to other Demetrios portraits, I don't see it as all that simila...

FWIW, I agree on the idea that a later tomb may have incorporated earlier tombs, which might point to a family site, not unlike the Lyson and Kallikles tomb in Macedonia proper. Tomb reuse and/or reincorporation was hardly uncommon. And I'd bet on a time after Kassandros's death, and possibly even a...

Things moved too fast. By the time Krateros heard ATG was dead, Perdikkas had already worked out a settlement back in Babylon. I think Krateros decided to throw in his lot with Antipatros. But that's some of what I'll be looking at in the book, yes.

It would be very interesting to know if Hephaestion was influential in Alexander changing his mind about who was to blame in the Eumenes' quarrel about the accommodation. But even if he didn't, people were afraid of Hephaestion (Eumenes and Apollodorus, and probably other satraps). Did he misuse hi...