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- Mon Jan 24, 2022 5:36 am
- Forum: Art and Culture
- Topic: Facial Reconstruction of Alexander
- Replies: 1
- Views: 4576
Re: Facial Reconstruction of Alexander
Ha yes, the mouth seems to small for the face. And there's something odd going on with the ear texture. Nevertheless, it's pretty impressive that neural nets can create a whole human face from descriptions and ancient portraits, whether or not it "actually" looks like him.
- Thu Jan 13, 2022 11:28 pm
- Forum: 'Off-topic' forum
- Topic: About Lysias
- Replies: 3
- Views: 6880
Re: About Lysias
Aww
- Thu Dec 30, 2021 3:33 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Schooling of Macedonian boys at Pella
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5501
Re: Schooling of Macedonian boys at Pella
Thank you very much Jeanne, that's super helpful! That's an expensive book, but I'm technically a part-time student at my local university, mostly so I can do things like request inter-library loans, which I have done :D Your tumblr looks great, perhaps I should dust off my own account. There certai...
- Thu Dec 30, 2021 12:17 am
- Forum: Book reviews
- Topic: Alexander, psychosis, and me
- Replies: 0
- Views: 12498
Alexander, psychosis, and me
Well, a novel it ain't, but I see other people have posted their fanfiction here before, so I figured I'd drop mine too: here's a short story that is a vehicle for my thoughts on Alexander and bipolar/psychosis. Oddly, it came to me in a way that had nothing to do with any of the many armchair diagn...
- Tue Dec 28, 2021 7:48 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Schooling of Macedonian boys at Pella
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5501
Re: Schooling of Macedonian boys at Pella
Thank you! That's definitely a lot closer to what I had assumed about the page situation, and that article looks great! Hilariously, I came across this while trying to find out what sources the claim about the boar+man rite of passage originally came from. Still haven't found that, but I did force m...
- Tue Dec 28, 2021 5:57 am
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Schooling of Macedonian boys at Pella
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5501
Schooling of Macedonian boys at Pella
So, while I was looking for something else, I came across this article: https://www.historynet.com/alexander-the-monster.htm Obviously, a lot of the rhetoric here is a matter of interpretation or opinion: to what extent would Alexander fit the modern category of "alcoholic," to what extent...
- Tue Dec 21, 2021 4:05 am
- Forum: Book reviews
- Topic: Memories of Hephaestion A R Valeson
- Replies: 4
- Views: 9545
Re: Memories of Hephaestion A R Valeson
The author seems to have only two other books, both published within the year, which are both m/m historical romance, making me assume they’re a new pseudonym of the kind of self-pub romance author whose industry basically demands a new book every couple months to stay “competitive” in the market. S...