Thursday, April 21, 2011

The Iliad by Homer

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The Iliad by Homer ISBN-10: 0140447946.  It took me quite wile before I finally managed to read The Iliad and I got hooked on it! I s...
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Sunday, April 10, 2011

The Macedonian « kausia »

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No, I’m not starting a lesson in Greek, but certain words simply cannot be translated. The kausia is a typical flat Macedonian hat that ...
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Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Traces of Alexander the Great in Lebanon?

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A few months ago I heard about Theodore May who was walking in Alexander’s footsteps from the Turkish-Syrian border all the way to Babylon ...
Sunday, March 20, 2011

The Death of Alexander the Great. A Reconstruction of Cleitarchus. By A. Chugg

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A titanic job, nothing less. In his book A Reconstruction of Cleitarchus (ISBN 9780955679025), Andrew Chug has compared the surviving tex...
Wednesday, March 9, 2011

The Legacy of Alexander the Great by A. B. Bosworth

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The Legacy of Alexander. Politics, Warfare, and Propaganda under the Successors by A.B. Bosworth . (ISBN 978-0799285150) The years and ...
Sunday, February 13, 2011

More exhibitions about Alexander the Great this year

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It is hard to understand how after so many years of waiting, we are suddenly flooded with one exhibition about Alexander the Great after ...

Alexander the Great in Egypt. Lecture of 24 November 2010

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I attended this fascinating lecture about  Alexander the Great in Egypt . It was given by  Prof. Olaf Kaper  at the  Allard Pierson Museum ...
Saturday, February 5, 2011

From Boy to King, Alexander the Great: a trip you shouldn't miss!

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After running his Alexander the Great tour in Turkey for several years now ( In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great ), Peter Sommer is o...

Historical Sources in Translation, Alexander the Great by W. Heckel and J.C. Yardley

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Historical Sources in Translation, Alexander the Great by W. Heckel and J.C. Yardley (ISBN 0631228217) is a true gem, not for those loo...
Friday, January 28, 2011

News from Didyma, Turkey

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Sometimes illegal digs reveal unexpected new prospects, like last summer (2010) in Didyma on Turkey’s west coast. Didyma , the si...