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Yes, Delphi, of course perched up on the hillside, and the Argive Plain is typical - a ring of hill forts eying each other over the fertile (and perhaps waterlogged) plain - Argos, Mycenae, Midea and Tiryns. The exception is Tiryns, which kept getting flooded! http://ic.pics.livejournal.com/kizzikat...

I haven't been able to find a date for the rebuilding of the walls at Mycenae, but I think the Argives might have had a hand in it. They destroyed Mycenae and Tiryns in 468 BC, and if they allowed Pyrrhos' troops to raid the tombs at Mycenae (or weren't in a position to prevent it) approx. 272 BC, t...

Ah, that's interesting about Pyrrhus. It might partly explain the rebuilding of part of the walls at Mycencae in the Hellenistic period. I think there was a new tower built in the western wall.

She does have a point to some extent as Alexander's influence on Indian history was not as great as it was on other parts of the world.

David Adams did a series of documentaries about Alexander in this region https://www.youtube.com/user/davidadamsfilms and visited these people. To be honest, I can't remember what his conclusion about the origin of these people was. See this page here http://pothos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=...

Noman has deleted the original post, but this was the link https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ZABSepHO1FMC&pg=PA603&lpg=PA603&dq=Subhuti+of+Paropamisdae&source=bl&ots=GjE_fNppR6&sig=6LHc_JSB7DXO5amCVPXAhdeKfOM&hl=en&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Subhuti%20of%2...

Then in a few years, just after the triumphant reconquest of Egypt, the Persian monarchy is overthrown by a bunch of Ionians from a kingdom nobody in the centre of the empire has ever heard of. There wasn't a precedent to deal with that, in the way that the Romans were used to a general marching on...

Pauline asked me to post this picture of a recently reconstructed bath for a Mycenean queen at Knossos (from this Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/Knossoss/?fref=nf ). 18034373_1705283719768716_3423661884344775942_n.jpg This is the only known similar one from Nestor's palace at Pylos. 1383146_...

A little far from my country of residence... Well, in theory I will be giving a paper on "Darius III and the Crisis of Achaemenid Ideology" in Tartu in June http://caemc.ut.ee/icaem2017 I don't see any papers on Alexander in the program though ... mine is on how the Persians and Egyptians...

Interesting food for thought. How much did Philip's court differ from that of his predecessors? What innovations did he make, what new roles did he create? Alexander's court must have been heavily influenced by the logistical needs of the expedition, and subsequently by taking on the Persian civil s...

Pauline kindly sent me this link to a lecture in English by Katerina Peristeri - some excellent photos in it.

https://www.livemedia.gr/video/274511

In 'Mycenae Agamemnon's capital' by Elizabeth French (who excavated at Mycenae with her father A J B Wace), when discussing the Hellenistic history of the site, she says The treasuries he (Pausanius) mentions must be the tholos tombs several of which remained partially visible. It has been suggested...

She refers to 328/327 because our years run January to December, whilst Greek calendars generally began in Autumn ( e.g. Macedonian began 1st Dios =1st October aprox - because it was lunar this would shift slightly year to year). The main exceptions were Boeotia, whose calendar began in mid-winter,...

I think you may have missed my point. Have another read of my last post. 'Heracles' is supposedly born, or is claimed to have been born, at more or less the same time as Roxane's baby Alexander, who died at nine months. Many people would know that a son of Alexander was born at that time. My apolog...

Sorry, I have just re-read this and realised that you are trying to prove that because Heracles' birth is not recorded in the sources, the mention of the death of the first child of Roxane makes Heracles' parentage dubious. This is surely flawed logic as the death of one child does not disprove the ...