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All of this assumes the Ephimerides were real ... which is actually disputed from Badian forward, for some very good reasons, just as the so-called "last plans" may have been half Peridkkas' fabrication. There may have *been* ephimerides, at least while ATG was in Babylon (following ancie...

Thanks for the comments. Maybe you could highlight the bits that don't come from the romances and don't deal with the poisoning so that you can read the fever narrative and see how it has been embroidered by the poisoning narrative. Well, dealing with the poisoning is not just in the romances and I ...

I made a reconstruction of the last days of Alexander the Great. It is basically a harmonization of all the available sources. I haven't seen it done by anyone. I think the best literature about this topic is in Curtius Rufus, Histories of Alexander the Great, Book 10 . Clarendon Ancient History Ser...

so I advocate to work backwards: Guillan Barre is a syndrome, not a disease. It develops as a complication of another disease. If Arrian is to be believed, Guillan Barre was the fatal complication that killed Alexander. So any disease that doesn't cause Guillan Barre, can be crossed off the list. O...

I don't think Alexander died from West Nile fever. I read the article https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3034319/ and it didn't convince me. I see several problems there: 1) The author relies on Plutarch but Plutarch's source about Alexander's death is the so-called Royal Diary which is th...

Hi, thank you for your reply. I still think the arsenic hypothesis is the best explanation for Alexander's death. It best explains the good body preservation after his death and the fact that ancient historians mentioned the Styx River as the source of the poison. This hypothesis doesn't require tha...

Hi, This topic has inevitably been touched on numerous times. First topic of poisoning, I read that Theophrastus had written about stryccnine, its uses and how its effectiveness could be over several days and with wine the taste could be disguised. With Alexander’s reaction to Cassander when he rea...

Hi Adam, I am not sure what is going on here, but I have approved a post from you this morning. I assumed it was a reply to my post of yesterday. However you appear to have edited your original post. This is only going to lead to confusion as I think you have substantially altered your original pos...

Thank you for your reply. You made a really good point, that it is unlikely that the poison conspiracy was known during the life of Antipater. So, if nobody knew about it, there was nothing to suppress during Antipater's life and that was my mistake to suggest that. In fact, Plutarch explicitly ment...

Thanks for this. I haven't followed up all the links, but I think there are a few things that are worth considering. 1/ Was Alexander actually poisoned? The poisoning theory only arose about 5 years after Alexander's death when the various factions were slinging mud at each other. 2/ If he was pois...

Even though this topic was already discussed in this thread https://www.pothos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=30626, I will try to present new arguments for the arsenic hypothesis. For a general overview of Alexander's death: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Alexander_the_Great https://www.academia...

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