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It's not so much the 'math' but rather the conga line of Macedonian identities flitting here, there and everywhere. It is something more than a surprise that Diodorus gets them all named and placed in a chronological context (when he's not moralising over escapees from Antigonid custody and the lik...

Ha, yes, there is that. It doesn't help that I'm really an Argead specialist, and prefer dealing with The Crazy that comes before Philip rather than The Crazy that comes after Alexander. :-D Although I do understand the fascination with the Hellenistic era. At least there are more sources (even if ...

Many thanks for your answer. I am aware about the astronomical diares and other evidence of this type; my interest was directed to the possibility of a number of reliable Oriental literary sources which can be used in a project. I myself did not find any (those I found are late and not worthy of tr...

The only other thing I can suggest is setting up a Google Alert (or similar) to ping once a month with all new contributions to Bryn Mawr Classical Review and EThOs (or similar) with keywords like "Alexander" "Macedon" "Argead" and so on. BMCR only covers books (except ...

My best advice is for folks to run searches and purchase a subscription to JSTOR, or if near a university, one might be able to request (probably for a minimal monthly or yearly fee) access to the university libraries and databases, which will sometimes include not just access to JSTOR, but also to...

Thanks for the picture! I did not know that figurine. Apparently some of the authors on gynaecology who nobody reads any more describe the use of birthing stools. One of my colleagues in Calgary was working on one of them. Eric Shanower depicts a birth with the aid of one in one of the early Age of ...

You are welcome. I have fixed the link: WordPress bends over backwards to do something with users' malformed HTML, but sometimes its algorithms are not as smart as they think they are. I do not have time right now to go through all of these either, but there must be people out there for whom one of ...

Three dissertations on military aspects of Alexander's world are now online at the University of Calgary Vault website. One deals with ancient horses, one with Greek and Macedonian tactics, and one with the skeletons in the tombs at Vergina. I have collected the links here.

All in all, I think that any serious proposal has to show that a particular location had some feature which could have been called the Dogs' Heads in antiquity. And that is the problem, that none of these hills look like dogs heads. Unless they had a different shape at that time, which is possible....

I will keep my reply short due to limited time and desire not to clutter the thread. This is very selective, leaving out much of the evidence, and I addressed this question in my post of Sunday March 29 above. Does it? The Latin and Greek manuscripts which name the battle seem to agree on a plural. ...

Paralus wrote: The name of the "feature" is consistent in the Greek sources. The major accounts all utilise the plural (κεφαλὰς) rather than the singular (κεφαλή):....... Polybios consistently describes the "feature" as being hills (plural), having Philip send a force to occupy ...

They have no roads marked since the roads were tracks rather than the metalled constructions we would call a road; at least, that is what the notes to them say, they are online. I think they will follow Descourt's identifications as I found his monograph in their bibliography. They often give roads...

Is there anything on towns and roads in the Barrington Atlas to help? They have small-scale maps, and I would take their reconstruction of Late Hellenistic Thessaly pretty seriously. One day I would like to look more closely at the route of Cyrus the Younger, both the question of which route he took...

Thanks for the continued updates. Archaeology is a way to learn new things about the age of Alexander and his successors too!

You know, people who study the ancient near east in Austria are still allowed to call themselves orientalists (whether because Austria is a bit oldfashioned, or because they are such good gadflies to more traditional classicists I can't say). For the Kynoskephalai thread, I have never read any of th...