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agesilaos wrote:NO; in Curtius and Plutarch he is Alexander's sex toy, as he had been Dareios', Nabarzanes makes the relationship quite plain.

Indeed.

At the time I went they hadn't exposed much of the walls, but there was a lovely cross-section excavation in the side of the 'acropolis'. I'll have to dig out some of my photos ...ATB When did you go? I wonder when the palace walls were exposed. Does the photo (in the link I provided) of the palace...

Thanks Marcus. Glad you got there too. Going through my photos and then comparing them to images found on google, I realised that although I went to Afrosiab, I did not go to the palace. How could I have missed it?! It's the only standing structure surrounded by nothing but flat sandy terrain for m...

Hi Hando, I'm glad you were able to find Afrosiab! I went there back in 2009, and enjoyed a wonderful couple of hours in the ruined citadel - it was very exciting to think that, somewhere amidst those ruins was the spot where Alexander killed Cleitus! (Assuming they were in the citadel and not in ca...

A lady on Alexander's Army says the picture is of the Catacombs of Kom el Shoqafa. She is due to visit Alexandria soon and is hoping to visit the site and give us some news. I can confirm that it most definitely is of the catacombs of Kom el Shoqafa. Here's my photo of the same place, taken in 2003...

Kahiel wrote:

LJLJ wrote:Please don't read Manferdi¡s, unless you are 13

Is it really THAT bad?

I wouldn't recommend it even for a thirteen-year-old.

It's *terrible*. And I mean T-E-R-R-I-B-L-E!

I agree with Nikas on Ellis, a really good book, for the Macedonian background I would add Eugene Borza's 'In the Shadow of Olympus' and Malcolm Errington's 'History of Macedonia' which packs alot into its 300 pages, it would be churlish not to mention N G L Hammond's 'The Macedonian State' but he ...

Though..true. It's a shame that there's no preview. I would have liked to see even at least a few pages of it. To me, even if Ptolemy has no reputation as a stylist as Agesilaos had stated....the fact it's an account made by one of Alexander's companions makes all the difference to me. Though I'm c...

Actually, even fiction is hard to find. Last I found was Manfredi's. From a personal point of view, I would strongly suggest not touching Manfredi's books with a barge-pole. I am constantly disappointed by fictional accounts of Alexander - in fact, I can't remember a single one since Mary Renault t...

Then I'll be sure to look up Marcus' suggestion. Finding them is the only problem. Lane Fox's version has long been gone from bookstores here. I've searched every bookstore in the vicinity that I can find. Through ebooks I managed to find the psuedo-Callisthenes version and I'm wondering if that's ...

And if you get the Loeb edition you get the Greek and a mass of essays by P A Brunt , the Landmark edition has good accompanying essays, the Penguin has a rather free translation and little supporting material but is cheap :D I would always suggest that the Penguin translation is the better startin...

Cleitus sort of went a little further than you'd suggest with that extended hand and the comments about Alexander's pretense toward being deemed a god. But the belittling of Philip was perhaps one of the more interesting bits that came out here. And that this strange condescension against his own f...

Welcome, Kahiel. I agree with Hypaspist's suggestion, although I would add that you really can't do worse than to read the ancient sources - you have Plutarch, but get a copy of Arrian's Anabasis as well. After that you should read the other sources, but if you're just starting on your Alexandrian j...

Loyalty would still have counted, had he been disloyal, or even suspected, Kleitos could have gone the way of Parmenion and Philotas; though, just maybe the fact that he was Philotas' natural replacement ensured that he was of a totally different Court Faction, the Antipatrids' perhaps since his mu...