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- Sun Mar 03, 2024 6:53 pm
- Forum: Comments, help, suggestions etc
- Topic: New users
- Replies: 5
- Views: 108
Re: New users
I doubt it! Most new users are spammers or don't post at all.
- Sun Mar 03, 2024 6:51 pm
- Forum: Comments, help, suggestions etc
- Topic: All the source material
- Replies: 2
- Views: 258
Re: All the source material
Hi, Marcus, yes I have restricted access to the two new forums as I didn't want them to be muddled up with random entries, as they are meant to be study aids, so some sort of order and coherence seemed essential. With the alexandersources site, I have been reading these through before posting them, ...
- Sat Mar 02, 2024 8:32 pm
- Forum: Comments, help, suggestions etc
- Topic: New users
- Replies: 5
- Views: 108
Re: New users
Thank you for this, mavra. I think I have sorted it. I must have inadvertently changed something. My apologies and thanks again.
- Sat Mar 02, 2024 8:20 pm
- Forum: Comments, help, suggestions etc
- Topic: New users
- Replies: 5
- Views: 108
Re: New users
Thank you so much for that. I will try to investigate it.
- Sat Mar 02, 2024 3:08 pm
- Forum: Alexander Sources
- Topic: Aelian - Varia Historia #2
- Replies: 0
- Views: 82
Aelian - Varia Historia #2
Aelian - Varia Historia Book 6.1 When Philip won the battle of Chaeronea he was buoyed up by his achievement, as were all the Macedonians. The Greeks were very frightened of him, and their cities surrendered individually; this was the decision of Thebes, Magara, Corinth, the Achaeans, Elis, Euboea,...
- Fri Mar 01, 2024 8:08 pm
- Forum: Alexander Sources
- Topic: Aelian - Varia Historia #1
- Replies: 0
- Views: 80
Aelian - Varia Historia #1
Aelian - Varia Historia Book I.25 Alexander son of Philip (if anyone thinks he was the son of Zeus, it makes no difference to me) added the formula of greeting to his letters, they say, only when writing to the Athenian general Phocion. Such was the impression Phocion had made on the Macedonian. Bu...
- Fri Mar 01, 2024 10:17 am
- Forum: Comments, help, suggestions etc
- Topic: New users
- Replies: 5
- Views: 108
New users
I have noticed that we haven't had any new users register for 6 months. This might be simply that the site's low activity means that it is not showing up in searches online, but if anyone is having any difficulty with the site, I have set up an email address to contact me. It is pothos@writeme.com
- Fri Mar 01, 2024 10:02 am
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Netflix’s Alexander..
- Replies: 7
- Views: 300
Re: Netflix’s Alexander..
I haven't seen it, but the general opinion seems to be that it is just for mass-consumption rather than the purists.
- Thu Feb 29, 2024 3:02 pm
- Forum: Alexander Sources
- Topic: Polyaenus #8 Women
- Replies: 0
- Views: 76
Polyaenus #8 Women
Polyaenus Stratagems of War Translated by E. Shepherd. F.R.S. Unchanged reprint of the Edition: London 1793. Ares Publishers, Inc. 8.40 Timoclea Timoclea was sister of Theagnes the Theban: that Theagnes, who fought Philip at Chaeronea; when he called out, whither would you pursue me? and was answer...
- Thu Feb 29, 2024 10:02 am
- Forum: Alexander Sources
- Topic: Polyaenus #7 Anaxagoras, Dromichaetes, The Thracians
- Replies: 0
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Polyaenus #7 Anaxagoras, Dromichaetes, The Thracians
Polyaenus Stratagems of War Translated by E. Shepherd. F.R.S. Unchanged reprint of the Edition: London 1793. Ares Publishers, Inc. 6.49 Anaxagoras Anaxagoras, Codrus, and Diodorus, sons of Echeonax, slew Hegesias, tyrant of Ephesus: when Philoxenus, governor of Ionia under Alexander, demanded them ...
- Thu Feb 29, 2024 9:56 am
- Forum: Alexander Sources
- Topic: Polyaenus #6 Agathostratus, Nearchus, Memnon, Mentor
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Polyaenus #6 Agathostratus, Nearchus, Memnon, Mentor
Polyaenus Stratagems of War Translated by E. Shepherd. F.R.S. Unchanged reprint of the Edition: London 1793. Ares Publishers, Inc. 5.18 Agathostratus The Rhodians being engaged in a war with Ptolemy, whose fleet then lay at Ephesus; Chremonidas, Ptolemy’s admiral, embarked, and put to sea, intendin...
- Sun Feb 25, 2024 10:06 pm
- Forum: Alexander Sources
- Topic: Polyaenus #5 Lysimachus, Craterus, Polysperchon, Ptolemy, Attalus
- Replies: 0
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Polyaenus #5 Lysimachus, Craterus, Polysperchon, Ptolemy, Attalus
Polyaenus Stratagems of War Translated by E. Shepherd. F.R.S. Unchanged reprint of the Edition: London 1793. Ares Publishers, Inc. 4.12 Lysimachus [1] Lysimachus apprehensive lest the Autariatae, who had been plundered of their baggage in an engagement with Demetrius, barbarians as they were*, and ...
- Sun Feb 25, 2024 9:58 pm
- Forum: Alexander Sources
- Topic: Polyaenus #4 Eumenes, Seleucus, Perdiccas, Cassander
- Replies: 0
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Polyaenus #4 Eumenes, Seleucus, Perdiccas, Cassander
Polyaenus Stratagems of War Translated by E. Shepherd. F.R.S. Unchanged reprint of the Edition: London 1793. Ares Publishers, Inc. 4.8 Eumenes (1) Eumenes, closely pursued by the Galatians, and at the same time so indisposed in health, as to be carried on a litter, when he found it impracticable to...
- Fri Feb 23, 2024 9:48 am
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Dionysius of Halikarnassos
- Replies: 10
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Re: Dionysius of Halikarnassos
Hegesias of Magnesia (a rhetorician founder of 'asianism', a flowery literary current) lived in III century B.C., Dionysius of Halikarnassos (who supported 'atticism' an opposite literary current) in I cent. B.C. Therefore Dionysius quoted Hegesias. Thanks, hiphys. I should have worked it out for m...
- Thu Feb 22, 2024 8:27 pm
- Forum: Alexander Sources
- Topic: Polyaenus #3 Antipater, Parmenio, Antigonus, Demetrius
- Replies: 0
- Views: 59
Polyaenus #3 Antipater, Parmenio, Antigonus, Demetrius
Polyaenus Stratagems of War Translated by E. Shepherd. F.R.S. Unchanged reprint of the Edition: London 1793. Ares Publishers, Inc. 4.4 Antipater (1) Antipater, in the Thracian war, having advanced into the country of the Tetrachoritae, ordered fire to be set to the horses’ hay, which lay before his...