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This might be the link to the original post on the subject you meant http://www.pothos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1639&p=13765&hilit=no+more+worlds+to+conquer#p13765 . (You need to put the web address between the two sets of square brackets). Any way you look at it, the quote makes Al...

I hope Delos won't mind me passing this link on, but following her recent trip to Greece she has posted lots of excellent photos of various Alexander places and other sites here https://www.facebook.com/Modern-Geograp ... 881417395/.

I think you might be thinking of the crossing of the Hindu Kush into central Asia. They ran out of grain and had to slaughter the pack animals. In Michael wood's documentary 'In the Footsteps of..' I think he said that they ate the meat raw (because they were above the tree line and so had no wood t...

Thank you, Pauline. Alexander was also accused of being too feminine, apparently by his parents - even more reason to hide the real nature of his relationship with Hephaestion if he felt it would impair his military reputation. I am less certain than you that Amphipolis is Hephaestion's tomb, but if...

Jeanne, I specifically said I was commenting on the blog, not the podcasts. but I did read your blog here http://www.achillesgene.com/blog/alexander-hephaestion-lovers#commenting=about Alexander and Hephaestion's relationship. Having commented on the blog, which was about why Alexander and Hephaesti...

Thank you for your condescension. My apologies for forgetting anyone other than an expert was entitled to express an opinion.

I haven't had time to listen to these podcasts yet, but I did read your blog here http://www.achillesgene.com/blog/alexander-hephaestion-lovers#commenting= about Alexander and Hephaestion's relationship. For me, Hephaestion not being interested in a physical relationship with Alexander beyond adoles...

sean_m wrote:Thanks for letting us know, I see a Pothos-member among the speakers.

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I was talking to a Greek lady recently and she told me that her mother, a screen writer, was writing a book on Greek history seen from the perspective of the Mysteries. She also said that Alexander was conceived on Samothrace when his parents attended the Mysteries there. It is easy to see where thi...

I've never heard this story before. It has all the hallmarks of local apocrypha, invented later on. Alexander is known to have sent stuff back from his travels, including plants (and soil if living presumably) to Aristotle for study, and he would also have sent things to his mother, with possibly lo...

Sounds like a huge piece of work. Unfortunately the links don't seem to work though.

Nevertheless, even with one's bear eye -and of course a little experience in this area, the profile of the handles can be seen to be fake. The photograph of my little jug may be misleading you: it isn't that shape, it is the same as the other photograph. The links below show olpes from the Universi...

Yes, the horseman in the statute could be anyone. But who is the horseman on the coins? Any particular god or hero?

I was browsing this website http://edgarlowen.com/greek-art.shtml and came across these items being sold as Alexander http://edgarlowen.com/b2953.jpg Alexander the Great. He sits on his rearing horse holding the reins in one hand and a Macedonian type shield in the other, the whole wonderfully compo...

He is young. Fortunately they fear less than their elders or the world would not have produced Alexander!