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- Mon May 20, 2024 7:55 pm
- Forum: Art and Culture
- Topic: Bettany Hughes - Bulgaria
- Replies: 10
- Views: 727
Re: Bettany Hughes - Bulgaria
I'd suggest you watch the episode on catch-up and you might see why I am getting annoyed with her. Historians should aim for a balanced neutrality, not bend history to fit their own agenda. That is a very dangerous thing to start doing if you are not aiming for objectivity. I appreciate that the ai...
- Mon May 20, 2024 7:50 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Alexander's Last Days: Chronological Source Rearrangement (without the poison narrative and the romances)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 46
Re: Alexander's Last Days: Chronological Source Rearrangement (without the poison narrative and the romances)
Inspired by Alexias, I made a chronological source rearrangement of Alexander's last days without the poison narrative and the romances. However, this is not a reconstruction like I did in this thread: https://www.pothos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7309. Here I quote the sources explicitly so there i...
- Sun May 19, 2024 9:07 am
- Forum: Art and Culture
- Topic: Bettany Hughes - Bulgaria
- Replies: 10
- Views: 727
Re: Bettany Hughes - Bulgaria
In other words, there is no evidence that Meda threw herself on Philip's funeral pyre, merely a theory based on very shaky peripheral evidence and a number of Occam-razor-like assumptions. :-) Yes, I was about to post exactly the same - bending the evidence to fit the theory that it was Philip II's...
- Sat May 18, 2024 3:00 pm
- Forum: Art and Culture
- Topic: Bettany Hughes - Bulgaria
- Replies: 10
- Views: 727
Re: Bettany Hughes - Bulgaria
Anyway, we were also told that Queen Meda, Philip's sixth wife, threw herself on Philip's funeral pyre. And the evidence for this? Not given. A quick look around on t'Internet says that the theory that Meda slew herself came from NGL Hammond. I will do some more digging to find out where he said th...
- Sat May 18, 2024 10:37 am
- Forum: Art and Culture
- Topic: Bettany Hughes - Bulgaria
- Replies: 10
- Views: 727
Re: Bettany Hughes - Bulgaria
Anyway, we were also told that Queen Meda, Philip's sixth wife, threw herself on Philip's funeral pyre. And the evidence for this? Not given. A quick look around on t'Internet says that the theory that Meda slew herself came from NGL Hammond. I will do some more digging to find out where he said th...
- Sun May 12, 2024 3:58 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Herculaneum papyri
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4435
Re: Herculaneum papyri
There is a programme tonight (Channel 5 9 pm) where Professor Alice Roberts talks to Brent Searles about this work. It should be good. I hope it is - my friend made the programme! :-) It is worth noting that the programme is called "The Lost Scrolls of Pompeii", but they were in fact from...
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 7:26 pm
- Forum: Comments, help, suggestions etc
- Topic: New pages
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1337
Re: New pages
Hi Marcus, if you would like to start on something I would like to revise the mini-biographies that are currently online (eg the Olympias one is just wrong as she did not rule Macedonia for three decades!) it would be a help if you could make a start on this. Heckel's Who's Who, which you can downl...
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 7:23 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Netflix’s Alexander..
- Replies: 15
- Views: 3471
Re: Netflix’s Alexander..
There were a LOT of liberties taken, many all about cost. For example, the (daughter) Barsine is too old because it's apparently super-expensive to bring minors onto a set. And there aren't nearly enough people, even guards for Alexander, due to lack of money. They couldn't afford a lot that was su...
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 10:48 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Cheronea ,The Protagonistes
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1475
Re: Cheronea ,THE CAMPAIGN OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT
THE MIDDLE PART OF THE INSCIPTION ( i think it is a very important incription ) This is uncanny, because I have literally just spent the last hour looking at that very same inscription ... then logged on to Pothos and there's the translation from your catalogue. If you're interested in the original...
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 6:43 pm
- Forum: Comments, help, suggestions etc
- Topic: New pages
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1337
Re: New pages
You should see a new link along the top of the page - 'About pothos.org'. I've discovered a few toys I can play about with, so you may see some changes! We now have plenty of space on the new host, so I may upload some translations, photos. The main pages of the site really need updating as well, s...
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 2:26 pm
- Forum: Art and Culture
- Topic: Metal button found in Denmark
- Replies: 3
- Views: 893
Re: Metal button found in Denmark
System1988 found this item about a Roman-era shield button bearing an image of Alexander. It was found in Denmark by metal detectorists. https://greekreporter.com/2024/04/12/bronze-fitting-depicting-alexander-the-great-found-in-denmark/#:~:text=The%20discovery%20was%20made%20by,face%20of%20Alexande...
- Fri Apr 12, 2024 9:55 pm
- Forum: 'Off-topic' forum
- Topic: New excavations and art in Pompeii
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1269
Re: New excavations and art in Pompeii
Super! I don't have Instagram, so cannot see all the pictures in their entirety; but they look gorgeousAlexias wrote: ↑Thu Apr 11, 2024 9:01 pm A few pictures/videos on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/pompeii_parco_archeologico/
- Thu Apr 11, 2024 6:07 pm
- Forum: 'Off-topic' forum
- Topic: New excavations and art in Pompeii
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1269
Re: New excavations and art in Pompeii
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-68777741 The three-part series, Pompeii: The New Dig, begins on Monday 15 April, 21:00 BST, on BBC Two and BBC iPlayer. It will become available internationally. There is also an Open University website connected with the series. iPlayer link https://w...
- Sun Apr 07, 2024 1:49 pm
- Forum: Book reviews
- Topic: Myth, Genesis and Sexuality by Daniel Ogden
- Replies: 13
- Views: 6794
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 w...
- Fri Apr 05, 2024 12:25 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: location of Peuce
- Replies: 11
- Views: 5064
Re: location of Peuce
I'm sure there was an island called Peuce in the Danube delta and obviously quite well known in the ancient world, It's interesting that I was looking up something else entirely, and ended up click a link to the Wiki page on Peuce. Obviously there's no guarantee that this is correct; but there's a ...