Search found 259 matches
- Sat May 14, 2016 1:22 pm
- Forum: Alexander the Great in the Media
- Topic: The Sword of Alexander in the Batman vs Superman film
- Replies: 47
- Views: 46523
Re: The Sword of Alexander in the Batman vs Superman film
In general, there is good reason for the length of swords in ATG's era. The quality of the steel available, was still too primitive to produce length with strength. This would come later with the Roman legion's infamous short sword. Spear points, daggers, short swords (shorter and heavier, if memor...
- Thu May 12, 2016 10:48 am
- Forum: Alexander the Great in the Media
- Topic: The Sword of Alexander in the Batman vs Superman film
- Replies: 47
- Views: 46523
Re: The Sword of Alexander in the Batman vs Superman film
There is definitely the possibility of finding more dedications by Alexander as more sanctuaries are excavated and the finds cleaned and published. Just think of those elephant medallions. Mostly I see this as an indication that Hollywood doesn't understand ancient Greek/Macedonian warfare--which is...
- Mon May 09, 2016 6:11 pm
- Forum: Art and Culture
- Topic: MACEDONIAN LEGAL SYSTEM OR LACK THEREOF
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4536
Re: MACEDONIAN LEGAL SYSTEM OR LACK THEREOF
The story of the advice which Anaxarchus of Abdera gave to Alexander ( Plut. Al. 52 ) has some similarities to and some differences from Herodotus' story of how Cambyses decided whether it was lawful to marry his sister (Hdt. 3.31). I am in the middle of translating something which looks at the pic...
- Sun May 08, 2016 4:29 pm
- Forum: Alexander's contemporaries
- Topic: Conspiracy against Philotas By Waldemar Heckel
- Replies: 42
- Views: 51285
Re: Conspiracy against Philotas By Waldemar Heckel
There's a series of articles about this topic. At the risk of sounding arrogant and citing myself, see the link below. I note it because I cite the academic "conversation" in articles about the Philotas Affair. I have never seen anything wrong with citing oneself to avoid rewriting someth...
- Fri May 06, 2016 10:59 am
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: A terrible loss - Agesilaos; Karl
- Replies: 22
- Views: 12118
Re: A terrible loss - Agesilaos; Karl
He will be missed by people around the world!
- Thu May 05, 2016 9:17 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Amphipolis
- Replies: 28
- Views: 17612
Re: Amphipolis
Amyntoros, that seems like an awful lot of work to undertake. Sean, I'm curious. Why have you chosen now to voice your complaints about this forum? Because a series of events in my personal and family life have hurt me very, very deeply and that has struck off the chains of politeness from my tongu...
- Thu May 05, 2016 11:41 am
- Forum: Art and Culture
- Topic: MACEDONIAN LEGAL SYSTEM OR LACK THEREOF
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4536
Re: MACEDONIAN LEGAL SYSTEM OR LACK THEREOF
The story of the advice which Anaxarchus of Abdera gave to Alexander ( Plut. Al. 52 ) has some similarities to and some differences from Herodotus' story of how Cambyses decided whether it was lawful to marry his sister (Hdt. 3.31). I am in the middle of translating something which looks at the pict...
- Thu May 05, 2016 11:24 am
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Amphipolis
- Replies: 28
- Views: 17612
Re: Amphipolis
Yes, and balancing the wishes of the posters who prefer a concise, scientific style of discussion and the posters who prefer to have a long chat with lots of rhetorical flourishes, nudges at conversation mates, and fun spotting and avoiding the rhetorical traps set by other posters. Threads which go...
- Wed May 04, 2016 11:06 pm
- Forum: Alexander's contemporaries
- Topic: Conspiracy against Philotas By Waldemar Heckel
- Replies: 42
- Views: 51285
Re: Conspiracy against Philotas By Waldemar Heckel
Also, in terms of organization, even modern bureaucratic armies and navies have two broad strategies: some rely on orders from the top through a hierarchy to the individual combatants, and others rely on giving the individual combatants general directions and training them to solve the problems in f...
- Wed May 04, 2016 10:16 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Amphipolis
- Replies: 28
- Views: 17612
Re: Amphipolis
I think that the decline in posting had something to do with all the arguments and very long threads. Some people enjoy that but its not my cup of tea. As that other place became uncomfortable to people who were more interested in Greeks than Romans, I moved to chats with my academic colleagues, and...
- Wed May 04, 2016 9:31 pm
- Forum: Alexander's contemporaries
- Topic: Conspiracy against Philotas By Waldemar Heckel
- Replies: 42
- Views: 51285
Re: Conspiracy against Philotas By Waldemar Heckel
And I guess we could bring in the military inscription from Amphipolis, and what kind of army it is describing. I am some personal difficulties right now and I don't have energy for a nice juicy talk about Macedonian armies! I hope to have some things to talk about in the fall. But I am convinced th...
- Wed May 04, 2016 9:27 pm
- Forum: Book reviews
- Topic: Editions of Curtius Rufus
- Replies: 0
- Views: 13402
Editions of Curtius Rufus
In another thread Nicator asked about editions of, translations of, and commentaries to Curtius Rufus. Rather than change the subject there, lets talk about our favourite versions here! The Loeb edition is affordable and has both the Latin and an English translation. Lacus Curtius has the Latin text...
- Fri Mar 25, 2016 10:46 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Sogdian Rock
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5673
Re: Sogdian Rock
Thanks for the link! My thought about these genetic studies is that they have so many potential points of error (the genetics, the statistics, the software, the assumptions used to interpret the genetics, and the history used to interpret those results) that it would take a lot of work to look them ...
- Thu Dec 31, 2015 8:46 am
- Forum: Art and Culture
- Topic: Ancient Greek toys
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3670
Re: Ancient Greek toys
Thanks system1988! I appreciate all of the news from Greece which you pass on. I hope that you have an excellent new year.
- Fri Dec 18, 2015 7:42 pm
- Forum: Art and Culture
- Topic: Ecbatana and the nearby temple of Anahita
- Replies: 11
- Views: 10038
Re: Ecbatana and the nearby temple of Anahita
Yes, people in the ancient world often called a minor or foreign god by the name of a major or familiar one. In the hands of advanced thinkers this could drift in the direction of monotheism but I suspect that most people were just trying to sort out which gods were really important and which they d...