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Unraveling the linothorax mystery, or how linen armor came to dominate our lives | Johns Hopkins University Press Blog

#alexandriana | Guest post by Alicia Aldrete As the wife, research assistant, and sometimes coauthor of an ancient historian who teaches at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, I had expected to spend many hours in libraries, wandering through foreign museums, and climbing around ancient sites. However, I had not foreseen large groups of weapon-wielding students in our…

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The Young Alexander : Alex Rowson : 9780008284398 : Blackwell's

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LacusCurtius • Diodorus Siculus — Book XVIII Chapters 1‑25

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ALEXANDER THE GREAT - IMPACT OF THE 325 BC TSUNAMI IN THE NORTH ARABIAN SEA UPON HIS FLEET = DR. GEORGE PARARAS-CARAYANNIS

#alexandriana | According to ancient texts, in 325 BC or 326 BC, a large earthquake along the Makran coast in the North Arabian Sea generated a destructive tsunami which destroyed part of Alexander the Great's fleet. The following is an evaluation of this event as deduced from historical records and current geophysical understanding of the seismo-tectonics of the Makran Subduction Zone - a source region of large earthquakes and tsunamis, recently and in the past.

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Alexander the Great and the Amazons - Great Lives

#alexandriana | Amazons–fierce warrior women dwelling on the fringes of the known world–were the mythic archenemies of great Greek heroes. Heracules and Achilles battled Amazon queens and the Athenians reveled in their victory over an invading Amazon army. In historical times, Cyrus of Persia lost his life battling the warrior queen Tomyris. The Roman commander Pompey tangled with warrior women who were the allies of Mithridates of Pontus and his companion Hypsicratea, a real-life Amazon. One of the most enduring and fascinating legends about Alexander the Great is his affair with the Amazon queen Thalestris. Their romance reportedly occurred in about 330 BC in what is now northern Iran, after Alexander’s conquest of Persia and on his way to India. Described–and debated–by historians in antiquity, the story still arouses controversy, even though it appears in a sequence of events whose historical authenticity is generally accepted. Did the young world conqueror really enjoy 13 nights of love with an imperious Amazon queen? Join Adrienne Mayor as she analyzes the evidence for this notorious liaison, drawing on ancient literature, geography, historical accounts, ethnography, and modern archaeology to separate fact from fiction.

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Robin Lane Fox 'Alexander and the Gods -and the Early Successors'. - YouTube

#alexandriana | SPHS AGM Lecture 15th June 2013 Robin Lane Fox, New College Oxford 'Alexander and the Gods -and the Early Successors' (Something about Siwah/ Egypt?)

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Liars' League: National Gallery Winner: Desperately Seeking Hephaestion by Elizabeth Hopkinson

#alexandriana | “But which one is Alexander?” they’d say. When they’d gone, we would bend double with laughter, holding onto one another and wiping our eyes. Only later did the question sink in. Which one is Alexander? Never: which one is Hephaestion?

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Alexander the Great Trusts Doctor Philip

#medicine #alexandriana #art | This masterpiece by Siemiradzki recalls several critical aspects of the unbreakable link of the patient-physician relationship, which is the first step of the healing process. As contemporary medicine continues to progress through the exponential growth of new technologies, new diagnostic and therapeutic techniques, big data analysis, machine learning, and telemedicine, we live a time when several external factors threaten this eternal relationship. The echoes that come to us from Alexander of Macedon’s world provide a beacon of hope and humanity in a rapidly changing world, showing that the patient-physician relationship will continue to endure.

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Family of Darius before Alexander by TIEPOLO, Giovanni Battista

#alexandriana #art | just read an essay that hypothesized that the weird proportions of Alexander and Hephaestion in this painting were in imitation of the beauty ideal of castrati at the time

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help with battle line up at Gaugamela - pothos.org

#alexandriana | Dear all, I usually come here for balanced views on Alexander the Great, but never posted before. Now I'm hoping to draw on the collective expertise gathered here: we want to build a scale model of Alexander's army at the start of the battle of Gaugamela, using 6mm wargames-style figures. For sources, we decided to go with Arrian's numbers of 40,000 infantry & 7000 cavalry (scaled down 1:16, ie about 3000 figures)