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by hiphys
Tue Feb 04, 2020 2:00 am
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: Alexander's Late Marriages
Replies: 5
Views: 4096

Re: Alexander's Late Marriages

I agree totally with the paper of Elizabeth Baynham: I don't think a 13 years old son would change things at Alexander's death. Nobody can foresee the events, therefore nobody can solve this great "if" of history. Anyway I have two steady ideas on this matter: 1) I wondered often why many ...
by hiphys
Sun Feb 02, 2020 12:28 pm
Forum: Alexander's contemporaries
Topic: "Hephaestion himself"
Replies: 1
Views: 9249

Re: "Hephaestion himself"

Hi, Alexias, I think you are right, because Hephaestion is the only wounded man, in Arrian's passage, who belongs to the bodyguards (and, according to Diodorus 17, 61, 3, he was as well the "hegemon" of the "somatophylakes"). Therefore he was also the closest man to Alexander: it...
by hiphys
Sat Oct 26, 2019 7:35 pm
Forum: Philip and Alexander's predecessors
Topic: Callisthenes of Olynthus
Replies: 2
Views: 9487

Re: Callisthenes of Olynthus

According to Plutarch (Life of Alexander 53, 1), Callisthenes declared that himself accompanied Alexander in Asia in order to persuade the king to rebuild the city of Olynthus and repopulate it with its former inhabitants.
by hiphys
Tue Oct 15, 2019 3:28 pm
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: The Date of Alexander's Birth
Replies: 55
Views: 444707

Re: The Date of Alexander's Birth

Thank you, sean_m and Paralus! I was in urgent need of your help! When debating on history it's necessary not only to use the correct chronology, but I think we'd distinguish accurately astronomy from astrology. When I say that Plutarch's date for Alexander's birth means the king was born in the con...
by hiphys
Mon Oct 14, 2019 6:59 pm
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: The Date of Alexander's Birth
Replies: 55
Views: 444707

Re: The Date of Alexander's Birth

An important point is that Plutarch’s (or Cleitarchus’s or Timaeus’s) date for Alexander’s birth means the king was born when the Sun was in the constellation of Leo the lion (i.e. his star sign was Leo). This is why Alexander is strongly associated with lions and why he wore his hair in a style th...
by hiphys
Tue Oct 01, 2019 5:35 pm
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: The Battle of Gaugamela
Replies: 1
Views: 3154

Re: The Battle of Gaugamela

Today, anniversary of the Battle of Gaugamela, I found another link with news, photos, and video concerning the archaeological mission, called "Land of Nineveh" that discovered the site of the famous Battle: http://www.nationalgeographic.it/.../ar ... _sco.../1/
by hiphys
Fri Sep 20, 2019 5:01 pm
Forum: 'Off-topic' forum
Topic: Miesa ,Peukestas tomb
Replies: 2
Views: 5019

Re: Miesa ,Peukestas tomb

Very beautiful building! I wonder if there is left something of the furnishings.
by hiphys
Thu Sep 19, 2019 6:18 pm
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: The Date of Alexander's Birth
Replies: 55
Views: 444707

Re: The Date of Alexander's Birth

Thanks for the replies, and particularly for Alexias' link.
by hiphys
Thu Sep 12, 2019 7:24 pm
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: The Date of Alexander's Birth
Replies: 55
Views: 444707

The Date of Alexander's Birth

Reading A. Chugg, Concerning Alexander the Great. A Reconstruction of Cleitarchus (2015), I found an interesting piece of information. In the chapter "The Date of Alexander's Birth", he writes: "Hence we can say that Alexander was born on 20th July 356 BC in the JULIAN CALENDAR (capit...
by hiphys
Sat Aug 10, 2019 1:04 am
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: Hunting and archery
Replies: 8
Views: 4474

Re: Hunting and archery

Sorry, I forgot the quote of Euripides' Heracles verses number: 151, and 156-164.
by hiphys
Sat Aug 10, 2019 12:58 am
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: Hunting and archery
Replies: 8
Views: 4474

Re: Hunting and archery

In ancient Greek world hunting was the activity practised in place of war, but with the same rules of war. Mostly war was fought for the supremacy of a city-state over another city-state, of an army over another army, of a man over another man. Therefore the main target was to scare the enemy, not t...
by hiphys
Fri Jun 14, 2019 5:41 pm
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: Kathleen Toohey on the Pinarus River
Replies: 1
Views: 2415

Re: Kathleen Toohey on the Pindarus River

The correct spelling of the river is PINARUS.
by hiphys
Sun Apr 21, 2019 6:46 pm
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: The Battle of Gaugamela
Replies: 1
Views: 3154

The Battle of Gaugamela

Professor Daniele Morandi Bonacossi (University of Udine, Italy) has found the place where Alexander defeated Darius for the second time at Gaugamela. The site is called now Tell Gamel and he found here many hellenistic reliefs with winged victories, horsemen, and Argead stars. See: www.archeostorie...
by hiphys
Wed Apr 03, 2019 5:14 pm
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: Map of Alexander's campaign in Balkans
Replies: 8
Views: 4467

Re: Map of Alexander's campaign in Balkans

I found some maps of this campaign in the books of N.G.L. Hammond. The last of these books I bought is: 'The Genius of Alexander the Great', London 1997. The maps are at page 33 (the Balkan area) and 38 (The manoeuvres at Pelium). Sorry, I'm not able to post a photo...
by hiphys
Tue Jan 15, 2019 5:39 pm
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: The sentence at Arrian, Anab. VII: 11, 9
Replies: 8
Views: 3864

Re: The sentence at Arrian, Anab. VII: 11, 9

Yes, you are right, homonoia is connected also with "alla agathà", because it is impossible to do otherwise. The sentence indeed is made to stress that "Alexander, besides the normal good things he was accustomed to pray for", prayed also for two new and special things, i.e. &quo...