A new take on the old controversy...

[Jay]

This was just emailed to a friend on the Yahoo Alexander group:http://tdpapazois.gr/I would be interested to hear all of your thoughts on this rather bizzare new view.

[John.]

How ridiculous! I read as much of that website as I could stand.The author claims that the man on horseback, about to spear the lion in the painting on tomb II is not Philip II, but Ptolemy. Since when did Ptolemy start sporting a beard?My God.Why can't people just admit that Andronikos and Hammond are right; tomb II belongs to Philip II. The young horseman in the middle (as successor), without the beard, is Alexander. The man on hoseback, with the beard, about to finish off the lion is Philip II, not Ptolemy, or Philip III. (Why would Philip III be painted as so much older than Alexander (and bearded!)?)Maybe the emotion that this is actually Philip II's tomb is just too much for people to handle. Or they are jealous of Andronikos and Hammond's discovery.John

[susan]

JohnI think that you take these things too emotionally - to be prepared to look at different interpretations is not a sign of jealousy and mean-mindedness. We are a forum to discuss these matters rationally, hopefully in a calm way. From your recent postings I see that you have strong views about Alexander's sexuality, the identity of the tomb etc - but these are controversial issues and I don't see that you can just nullify them by casting character aspersions on people who hold different views from your own.
Susan

[susan]

Yes, I found & posted the site yesterday - see the link below, on the armour. I've written to the man who did the site, so he may visit the forum to read these threads.I don't agree with the arguments, but I think that it is interesting to look at the evidence in a new light. There seem to be several unanswered questions about the tombs, as is natural when there is so little incontrovertible evidence in them, so any new interpretation could prompt ideas.Susan

[John.]

I think I was only echoing Alexander's anti-homo feelings. And after Alexander slaughtered the Theban Sacred Band of homos, Philip stood over their corpses, and with a side-swipe at Alexander, cried, "Let no one speak ill of these noble men, for there was nothing immoral in their way of life!"He he.John

[susan]

I shall try to think the best of you and assume that you are being ironic.Susan

[Linda]

Those greaves point to someone with quite a difference in leg thickness and length - surely not Alexander. Wouldn't this deformity have been noted? I know he was injured, but..I haven't really followed the discussions on the tombs very closely, but this makes it more likely (to me) to be his half-brother - an obvious deformity.Linda