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- Fri May 24, 2024 3:54 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Alexander's Last Days: Chronological Source Rearrangement (without the poison narrative and the romances)
- Replies: 24
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Re: Alexander's Last Days: Chronological Source Rearrangement (without the poison narrative and the romances)
Does typhoid fever really match the account of Hephaestion's death? in a word: no. Hephaestion went from walking, talking, eating & drinking to being dead within about hour. there are very few pathologies that can do that and infection isn't one of them. chris. PS: thanks for the chronology of ...
- Fri May 24, 2024 3:43 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Alexander's Last Days: Chronological Source Rearrangement (without the poison narrative and the romances)
- Replies: 24
- Views: 212
Re: Alexander's Last Days: Chronological Source Rearrangement (without the poison narrative and the romances)
Thanks for the comment, hiphys. I didn't mention Alexander's pneumothorax because usually, a healed pneumothorax has no long-term effect on health. Here are two sources: in the interest of accuracy: it is correct that a spontaneous pneumothorax does not have long term effects on health (except some...
- Tue Apr 02, 2024 2:03 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: location of Peuce
- Replies: 11
- Views: 5119
Re: location of Peuce
I came across this in Strabo thanks Alexias for the quotes. I'm sure there was an island called Peuce in the Danube delta and obviously quite well known in the ancient world, but I maintain that it was not the Peuce Arrian spoke of: Arrian is very clear that Alexander couldn't land because of the f...
- Mon Apr 01, 2024 11:26 am
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Pothos now inherited by Alexias and on a new server.
- Replies: 18
- Views: 7287
Re: Pothos now inherited by Alexias and on a new server.
Thanks to Thomas & Alexias for creating, maintaining and keeping pothos.org alive & well for all of us!
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- Fri Feb 23, 2024 12:45 am
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Dionysius of Halikarnassos
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4890
- Mon Jan 22, 2024 9:06 am
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: The ''staircase'' of Alexander
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4314
Re: The ''staircase'' of Alexander
Sorry, I don't see any smaller stones. That is fairly uniform in construction. You could probably get a mule up that pathway. I was wondering whether these square blocks outlined in black are manmade, to clad the mountain side to prevent rock fall. the wall outlined in red is new, but I agree with ...
- Sat Jan 20, 2024 9:58 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: The ''staircase'' of Alexander
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4314
Re: The ''staircase'' of Alexander
Thank you for this photo. Am I right in thinking that the photo shows a built up pathway on the right slope? I know Alexander had, certainly later on, excellent engineers, but this looks too big a construction to have been done rapidly, and speed was Alexander's intention. Maybe therefore the const...
- Sat Jan 20, 2024 9:41 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: The ''staircase'' of Alexander
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4314
Re: The ''staircase'' of Alexander
That's an amazing photo and assuming this is a pass between Olympus and Dion, then it is a possible location for the crossing. Apparently, Friedrich Staehlin was an expert on ancient Thessaly, so his views are not to be discarded lightly. I'd be keen to match this to an exact location. did you get t...
- Sat Jan 20, 2024 9:02 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: An Unconventional Take on the Vergina Tomb: Is it Alexander’s?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3186
Re: An Unconventional Take on the Vergina Tomb: Is it Alexander’s?
Incidentally, I have been thinking about Hephaestion's funeral lately and the pyre described by Diodorus I think, must refer to Alexander's planned monument. A pyre that size would have reduced any bones to ash, and it seems to have been the Macedonian custom to gather the large bones and inter the...
- Tue Aug 29, 2023 7:05 am
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Ancient Babylon 3D reconstruction
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4647
Re: Ancient Babylon 3D reconstruction
thanks for the best wishes for travel. but west of Pakistan, it doesn't look as rosy as you think for people wanting to retrace his route: * Turkey was struck by an earthquake earlier this year that affected tens of thousands around the wider area of the battle of Issus. (I did see the Granicus batt...
- Sun Aug 27, 2023 5:50 pm
- Forum: 'Off-topic' forum
- Topic: Retracing Alexander's route through Uzbekistan
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3744
Retracing Alexander's route through Uzbekistan
I found a UK based travel agent who can arrange a custom made tour that follows Alexanders footsteps through Uzbekistan & Takjikistan. The only section not accessible is along the Amyr Darya to Kelif where he crossed the river. the border crossings are still closed. Mosque visits are optional, t...
- Sun Aug 27, 2023 5:37 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Ancient Babylon 3D reconstruction
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4647
Re: Ancient Babylon 3D reconstruction
woa, thanks to all for this thread. narrowing down where Alexander spent his last hours. Amazing!
- Tue Aug 08, 2023 10:48 am
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Historical Perspective and Medical Maladies of Alexander the Great
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4460
Re: Historical Perspective and Medical Maladies of Alexander the Great
loved the article !! the language of is spot on. that's exactly how the layman's description of the sources translate into the language of modern medicine - which helps tremendously to visualize the course of Alexander's illness. and yes, the events of this final days are typical of the ascending fo...
- Sat Aug 05, 2023 11:18 am
- Forum: Art and Culture
- Topic: Excavations in Alexandria
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4725
Re: Excavations in Alexandria
thanks for posting the link! The paper says: "Now, they have reached down to the bedrock of Alexandria, locating the first roads built in the city, as well as the foundation of an enormous public building over two hundred feet long, which she has yet to fully uncover." my first response to...
- Sat Aug 05, 2023 11:05 am
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Historical Perspective and Medical Maladies of Alexander the Great
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4460
Re: Historical Perspective and Medical Maladies of Alexander the Great
thanks for that. it's an unusually good article on the topic because the docs who wrote it stick to the sources and have a clear understanding of how diseases do - and do not!! - manifest themselves. don't entirely agree with their conclusions, but it's a very good summary, written by doctors who ac...