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It is completely irrelevant to cite evidence concerning Antigonus being seen as acting against the kings in opposing Eumenes BEFORE the death of Olympias against my arguments about the situation AFTER the death of Olympias, when Antigonus became an outspoken royalist again as we see from Diodorus's ...

Two horses mean two headless horsemen? And a culty mystery is solved too. :D I'm trying to get all my ducks in a row with the third chamber. We have a cist grave which, from the cremated remains still inside, was used to inter the cremation. Presumably in some form of container in the smaller porti...

None of the Diadochoi took the Royal title before Demetrios and Antigonos were so style by the sychophantic Athenian State in 306 and then they all did with even Agathokles of Sicily getting in on the act. What singles Antigonos Monopthalmos out is that he expunged Alexander IV from his dating form...

...while Seleukos was satrap Babylonian documents were dated by the regnal years of Alexander IV but as soon as Antigonos took over in 315 the dating formula changes to the years of his ‘generalship’, until he in his turn was ousted in 311 and Seleukos re-instated dating by Alexander IV until his a...

An analysis worthy of Agnes Saville, herself, nay it surpasses her, she merely uncritically accepted what was in the sources and extrapolated backwards, this simply ignores swathes of evidence and invents an entire milieu; if this is ‘for the record’ then it must be for one by Bernard Cribbens or C...

For the record, the political situation in the period 316BC - 310BC was finely balanced. Whereas Cassander controlled Macedon, he was a minor player relative to Antigonus, who made it clear that he regarded Alexander IV as the king. Cassander's position was also therefore that Alexander IV was king ...

Thanks. Agnes Saville also says, several times but without offering any evidence, that Cassander would not allow any positive biography of Alexander to be published. I think she may just be extrapolating that backwards because Ptolemy didn't get round to writing his memoirs until he was an old man....

...from a first look I can replicate the results they have within an accuracy of 1-2 years they provide (i.e. most probable date for the death of the wood is 362 instead of 360 BC etc) Have you put in the 1-year correction for the fact that the BC-AD scale has no year zero? Thus the year 360BC is t...

Hi Andrew, just added the data in my tools and from a first look I can replicate the results they have within an accuracy of 1-2 years they provide (i.e. most probable date for the death of the wood is 362 instead of 360 BC etc), so that is the correct calibration curve. Maybe the offset you see is...

The uncalibrated radiocarbon age is 2250 BP plus/minus 30 years. Whoever wants to make exact calculations instead of drawing lines by eye on the plot Andrew supplied, can use the latest calibration curve for the northern hemisphere for which the data is here: http://www.radiocarbon.org/IntCal13.htm...

The author of the piece must truly be a moron, the C14 dates almost completely exclude the life of Alexander (he was ten when the 2 sigma section ends with the rest of his life falling in a 2% probability section) and the rest is just the old 'Roman' strawman. The pictures are nice but the text is ...

...That Lefantzis has not sent to anyone on this forum these "uncropped" photos means you are right? That Lefantzis has not provided such to this forum means he is withholding information?... The point was rather that Lefantzis has not made the information public at all and that he does n...

…No matter how loud the excavation team promotes the Hephaestion theory, it doesnt prove anything as long as they do not publish the findings together with all necessary details. And that includes the inscriptions. …I doubt that the team has forged or falsified raw data in such an extreme way. It i...

Well, I hope I at least know better Greek to understand what he means, but I think he is clear in his last sentence, saying practically, that even if you consider that one cannot write where the drafting was, you can still fit the Π. I don't think the 10-12 minutes of conference presentation by Lef...

People can see for themselves from the photos below that if Lefantzis is saying that there is stone in the place that the pi would have been (and it is not at all clear whether he is saying that), then he is incorrect.
Best wishes,
Andrew