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Hi once again, I have given this a bit of thought over night. Given the discussion we've had, (now this is not meant to be a contraversial statement, or relate to contemporary arguments), if the Makedones were not Hellenes, there's a distinct possibility we may not pick this up through the sources d...

So would it be fair to say then Marcus, that the names of deities are really given by the writer as opposed to what is historically factual. Then presumably we'd have to work out to whom and what purpose the writer was indeed recording this information for!Heading for troubled waters here! lolhmmmm,...

hi Linda, interesting, I never thought of it in that manner. That potentially, there were a number of versions of the Illiad, and Aristotal put together the correct version of it for him.hmmmm, I'm still under the impression all he did was to include some additional footnotes but on what?thanks for ...

thanks again for your feedback:) Then is that to say that when ATG was in India, as Bosworth suggests, Dionysus really wasn't worshipped, rather the gods Inra and Civa?A question to you both! why then do the sources refer to these native deities in hellenistic terms? I mean to say, they surely were ...

Hi all, Plutarch states ATG regarded his copy of the Illiad as a handbook of the art of war! He goes on to say that Aristotle had annotated his copy for him. What sort of annotations do you think Aristotle was qualified in, to include into ATG's copy? Surely Aristotle was no General. Thanks to anyon...

Hi Marcus & S, I was just reading about Zeus having over 150 epithets, so I guess he was representaive of whatever you wanted him to be, not unlike our current 'almighty'. So presumably did the remaining 11 deities. I guess there had to be some aspects they couldn't represent due to it encraochi...

How does this differ to any other kingship of the time? What makes it unique to Homer?

Zeus, Zeus the Saviour, Olympian Zeus, Zeus, the Lord of safe landings, Zeus Herceius, Zeus the King.Seems to be a Zeus for all occassions, anyone with classical mythology training know why so many faces to Zeus. Or are they seperate enteties?Many thanks to who ever may respond.
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hi wmp,I'm envious of you being able to visit Pella again, My one and only trip there was some 20 years ago, and was the only time I've been arrested by the law in my life,lol. After having access to the site for some two hours, the caretaker finaly arrived with the police and held us for questionin...

Hi Kit and Tre,for what it's worth I also agree with you Kit, that Parmenio was targeted by ATG. As to a lack of evidence, it seems unique to most of what we believe of the times., as to motivation ,well thats a different story! The end result for Parmenio, would cleary suggest he was well and truel...

Hi,I've always been of the belief, Antipater was behind ATG's untimely death, the type of poison is probably of no importance, as there would be huge array of poisonous weeds from Europe or Asia that could do the job. Rather than going into a lengthy discussion as to why he was poisoned, and Antipat...

Reminds me of a surfer from the Gold Coast, (thats Queensland Australia) for those who may never of heard of the Gold Coast!I'm not real impressed with the costumes, I was always under the impression the cloaks worn by the Companions were a sandy brown! That off white ,hmmm, just can't take to it.:(...

I don't have my books with me, but I'm quite certain Justin(Trogus) is the only one that mentions the name Myrtale, and if I recall correctly that was her original name. The name Olympias is given to her by Philip in honour of the success he had at the Olympic games with his horses.As to whether she...

Hi Poli, As basic as it seems, the implication of an affair relates to Olympias' openly advertised relationship with a higher being. Cassander may have used this later on in the P.R war that existed between the two but it was well established very early on, that she had some weird and wonderful ways...

Hi,I'm not into the movie stuff, and romantic novels written on ATG, but I've not heard the term limey before. Excuse my ignorance, but whats a 'limey'?