A strange
statement was made yesterday by Mrs. Katerina Peristeri “in about a month we finish”. Did she mean that excavations at Amphipolis
would be stopped for the season or does she expect to round up the excavations
in a month?
Once again
speculations about the possible occupants are listed in this article by Newsbomb.gr.
Why are they rubbing in all these theories time and again, I don’t understand.
Anyway, just to be complete, here follows the list of the possible names:
- Megas Alexandros himself
- Roxane
- Alexander IV, the son of Alexander the Great
- Olympias,
the mother of Alexander the Great
- Cleopatra,
the sister of Alexander the Great
- Cassander,
son of Antipater, who murdered Olympias, Roxane, and Alexander IV
- Nearchus or Laomedon or Androstenes, all generals of Alexander the Great
- Antigonus Monophthalmus, general of Alexander the Great and one of the Diadochi
- Hephaistion, a childhood friend and general of Alexander the Great who died in
- Heracles,
the illegitimate son of Alexander the Great, and Barsine, his mistress
- Polyandrion
- Polyperchon, general of Alexander the Great
- Philip-Arrhidaeus, half-brother of Alexander the Great
- Philip II,
Alexander’s father as many still doubt that he was buried in the tumulus
of Aegae
I am not
going to comment on any of these suggestions – that have been amply discussed
in earlier articles. For those who still want to read more on this argumentation,
please click on this link for Newsbomb.gr.
The least I
can say is that they covered every possible candidate, except maybe Queen Eurydice who married Philip-Arrhidaeus. Why has she been left
out?
[Picture from Newsbomb.gr]