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by Alexias
Thu Jan 11, 2024 9:59 pm
Forum: Alexander the Great in the Media
Topic: The making of aGod ,Netflix
Replies: 1
Views: 863

Re: The making of aGod ,Netflix

Looks like Stone's movie updated by Game of Thrones!
by Alexias
Wed Jan 03, 2024 8:43 am
Forum: Alexander the Great in the Media
Topic: A Worthwhile Documentary on Alexander’s Conquest of Persia
Replies: 1
Views: 1170

Re: A Worthwhile Documentary on Alexander’s Conquest of Persia

Thanks. I have only listened to the first hour so far, up to the start of the Halicarnassus siege. The pronunciation is annoying (computer generated?), and Olympias did not eliminate cousin Amyntas and stepmother Cleopatra on Alexander's orders. If Alexander himself didn't deal with Amyntas, then th...
by Alexias
Thu Dec 28, 2023 9:07 am
Forum: Alexander Sources
Topic: Oxyrhynchus Chronicle
Replies: 0
Views: 1797

Oxyrhynchus Chronicle

Oxyrhynchus Chronicle [4] [In the 109th Olympiad] [344 B.C.] Aristolycus [of Athens won the stadion race], and the archons at Athens were [Lyciscus], Pythodotus, Sosigenes and Nicomachus. In the second year Dionysius II, tyrant of Sicily, fell from power and sailed off to Corinth, where he survived...
by Alexias
Thu Dec 28, 2023 8:57 am
Forum: Alexander Sources
Topic: Libanius
Replies: 0
Views: 1528

Libanius

Libanius (1) When Alexander of Macedon restores the sons of the tyrant Philades to Messene, Demosthenes alleges that this is a violation of the treaties that he had made with the Athenians and the rest of the Greeks. He also says that the Macedonians have violated the treaties in many other ways, a...
by Alexias
Thu Dec 28, 2023 8:55 am
Forum: Alexander Sources
Topic: Herodotus on Macedonian origins
Replies: 0
Views: 1567

Herodotus on Macedonian origins

Herodotus "This Alexander was seventh in descent from Perdiccas, who got for himself the tyranny of Macedonia in the way that I will show. Three brothers of the lineage of Temenus came as banished men from Argos to Illyria, Gauanes and Aeropus and Perdiccas; and from Illyria they crossed over ...
by Alexias
Thu Dec 28, 2023 8:50 am
Forum: Alexander Sources
Topic: Hegesias on the siege of Gaza city
Replies: 0
Views: 1565

Hegesias on the siege of Gaza city

Hegesias …. The subject which the sophist is treating is as follows. Alexander, when besieging Gaza, a strongly fortified position in Syria, is wounded during the assault and captures the place after some time. Carried away by anger he massacres all the surviving inhabitants, allowing his Macedonia...
by Alexias
Tue Dec 19, 2023 11:00 pm
Forum: Alexander Sources
Topic: Johannes Malalas
Replies: 0
Views: 1541

Johannes Malalas

Johannes Malalas - pages 195-213 Johannes Malalas wrote a chronicle of world history, from the creation up until his own time (565 A.D.), in 18 books. His chronicle is especially valuable for the local information which he preserves about Syria and the city of Antioch. However the chronicle should ...
by Alexias
Mon Dec 18, 2023 11:10 pm
Forum: Alexander Sources
Topic: Aeschines: Against Timarchus
Replies: 0
Views: 1515

Aeschines: Against Timarchus

Aeschines: Against Timarchus (extract) Aeschines. Aeschines with an English translation by Charles Darwin Adams, Ph.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1919. 1.165 Now let me tell you how it happens that it has become the prevailing custom to say, that persons...
by Alexias
Sun Dec 17, 2023 12:14 pm
Forum: Alexander Sources
Topic: Heidelberg Epitome
Replies: 0
Views: 1533

Heidelberg Epitome

155: "Heidelberg Epitome" This is an anonymous summary of events after the death of Alexander, from 323 to 316 B.C. [1] When Alexander died, he left behind his wives and an unborn son by Roxane. His followers quarrelled about who should become king, but Alexander's half-brother Arrhidaeus...
by Alexias
Sat Dec 16, 2023 12:05 pm
Forum: Alexander Sources
Topic: Flavius Josephus - Antiquities of the Jews
Replies: 0
Views: 1841

Flavius Josephus - Antiquities of the Jews

Flavius Josephus The Complete Works of Josephus Translated and annotated by William Whiston, A. M. (1667-1752) Excerpt from Antiquities of the Jews - Chapter XVI. 5 - (How the sea was divided asunder for the Hebrews, when they were pursued by the Egyptians, and so gave them an opportunity of escapi...
by Alexias
Thu Dec 14, 2023 10:51 pm
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: Dionysius of Halikarnassos
Replies: 10
Views: 2354

Dionysius of Halikarnassos

I've just posted an extract from Dionysius of Halikarnassos about the death of Batis, the governor of Gaza city which withstood a siege by Alexander for a couple of months. Alexander ordered Batis to be dragged to death by his heels behind a chariot for his refusal to submit to Alexander. This is su...
by Alexias
Thu Dec 14, 2023 9:23 pm
Forum: Alexander Sources
Topic: Dionysius of Halikarnassos/Hegisias
Replies: 0
Views: 2415

Dionysius of Halikarnassos/Hegisias

Dionysius of Halikarnassos .. The subject which the sophist is treating is as follows. Alexander, when besieging Gaza, a strongly fortified position in Syria, is wounded during the assault and captures the place after some time. Carried away by anger he massacres all the surviving inhabitants, allo...
by Alexias
Wed Dec 13, 2023 10:59 pm
Forum: Alexander Sources
Topic: Cornelius Nepos - Life of Eumenes
Replies: 0
Views: 2382

Cornelius Nepos - Life of Eumenes

Cornelius Nepos - Life of Eumenes (1) Eumenes was a native of Cardia. If success equal to his abilities had been granted him, he would not, indeed, have been a greater man (for we estimate great men by merit, not by fortune), but he would have been much more renowned, and more honored. As he happen...
by Alexias
Wed Dec 13, 2023 10:45 am
Forum: Alexander Sources
Topic: Chares of Mitylene
Replies: 0
Views: 2367

Chares of Mitylene

Chares of Mitylene 'Stories of Alexander' (12.538B-539A) 'But Chares in the tenth book of his 'Stories of Alexander' writes: When he had taken Darius, he celebrated his own marriage and the marriages of his Friends, building ninety-two marriage chambers in the same place. The hall contained a hundr...
by Alexias
Tue Dec 12, 2023 10:02 pm
Forum: Alexander Sources
Topic: The Attic Nights of Aulus Gellius
Replies: 0
Views: 2643

The Attic Nights of Aulus Gellius

The Attic Nights of Aulus Gellius Translated by J. C. Rolfe The Loeb Classical Library Harvard University Press, 1961 Volume I, Book II. 27.1-5 The criticism of Titus Castricius passed upon passages from Sallust and Demosthenes, in which the one described Philip, the other Sertorius. This is Demost...