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Daniel Ogden has a very useful book on Seleukos, called The Legend of Seleucus: Kingship, Narrative, and Mythmaking in the Ancient World. Daniel is an impeccable scholar, and the book examines the creation of his own legend both during his lifetime, and by his descendants later.

There is a discussion of Hephaistion's likeness at the back of Andrew Stewart's Faces of Power , regarding the statues and which ones are likely to be authentic. It's been a while since I read it, but he's the leading expert art historian on ATG's image, imo, and familiar with the provenances, etc. ...

These reconstructions are kinda cool. Unfortunately, in this case, they picked a very dubious statue. It's the one in the Getty, which 1) is quite possibly a forgery, and 2) isn't named. It might be Hephaistion, or it might just be "some guy" (e.g., a heroized young man). I wish we had mor...

Sweetmemory, the first 2 years are, alas, too often overlooked in scholarship, the razing of Thebes aside. Aside from the primary sources, already listed, there are a couple articles about those years as well. A rather interesting take comes from Tim Howe, "Cleopatra-Eurydike, Olympias, and a '...

If you can lay hands on it, let me recommend two articles from Beth Carney, out of her 2015 King and Court in Ancient Macedonia: Rivalry, Treason, and Conspiracy . The book is a collection of her various articles pertaining to the Macedonian court (as the title suggests). Not only are they neatened ...

Ah, okay. There are days I agree with her. LOL. I realized just recently that I'm about 5 years from retirement as of next fall. Covid has made me wish it was less. Ha. Although I'd like to get a sabbatical before the end. Got things to write!

Glad to see Brosius's book. I use her smaller one, The Persians, in my ANE class. Will be sure to put the new one on order.

But what do you mean she "quit" the ancient racket?

Interesting question, Alexias! Quite possible.

For all they were decent physicians (compared to other eras) their lack of knowledge of diagnostics combined with things such as Humor Theory, they sometimes caused the very death they were trying to avoid.

Arriving very soon (as in October 1st) is a new bio on Philip that has textbook potential. Ed(ward) Anson is a long-time Macedoniast, teaches in Arkansas, has authored multiple articles and tends to deal especially with both pre-Alexander and post-Alexander (early Hellenistic, including the infamous...

JHarris ... yes, that's generally true. But it's all rather more complicated, as issues of ethnos and genos and the borders of the oikumene changed across time (as we can imagine). Some groups of barbaroi were viewed as "more civilized" while others were less so. In general, east and south...

Some while back the University of Mary School of Medicine took this on. What made their analysis a bit different was that they actually called in a historian to help them understand the biases in the texts, instead of taking everything at face value...something a lot of medical people don't do, resu...

Sikander! You got in! Yay! As for Barbaros, the term's meaning shifted (as words do). Initially, it meant only "Somebody who doesn't speak Greek," using the Persian tongue which, to Greeks, sounded rather like "Bar-bar-bar," so it means "the Bar-bar people." Obviously, ...

Basically what Alexias said. If it had been poison, or even the suspicion of it, given ATG's mental state at the time, he'd have turned out the hounds. He did kill the physician, but for malpractice (at least, IHO). Keep in mind that Alexander did have some medical training, but emotions were in con...

I'm very sad to hear this. I've been only intermittently on Pothos in the last decade or more, but I do remember him. having just lost, in April, a very old friend of mine, I can empathize with a known and valued voice going silent.

My best wishes to his family and friends.

Thanks to everybody. And I'm very familiar with Morris's "Hell" series, which I enjoyed. So I will try to track it down.