Sunday, February 8, 2015

Exhibition about Carthage in Leiden, Netherlands

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In the wake of my visit to Motya in Sicily where I was confronted with a number of Punic artifacts and a Tophet (Punic cemetery), I exp...
Thursday, February 5, 2015

The Macedonian Tomb of Agios Athanasios in Thessaloniki

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The name “ Agios Athanasios ” may not say much except to those who visited the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki , where it occupies a ...
Monday, February 2, 2015

Alexander’s influence reached all the way to China?

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It is high time to look at Alexander’ s conquest of Asia in a much wider context than we usually do. By now, his legacy in Central Asia is ...
Thursday, January 29, 2015

What if … Alexander had died a few months earlier, before Craterus left with his veterans for Macedonia?

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Another interesting point of view for after Hephaistion died one year earlier, Craterus became Alexander ’s second-in-command. Crate...
Monday, January 26, 2015

What if...

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“What if” is one of those questions that keeps popping up in everybody’s mind, and as I often wonder about  Alexander ’s life and death, I ...

What if Alexander had left the throne to his son from the Persian princess Stateira, descended from and protected by Sisygambis?

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Actually, this is a thought that was formulated by Robbert Bosschart in his book “ All Alexander’s Women ” – the most dazzling theory o...

What if … Alexander had lived a few more years to conquer western Mediterranean?

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That is another ball game altogether.  Alexander  definitely had drawn his plans as contained in his notebooks ( hypomnemata ). He had alr...

What if … Alexander had died a few months later, after his son with Roxane was born and Craterus had replaced Antipater in Macedonia?

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It is obvious that there would have been a successor and one recognized by  Alexander  himself, although it remains to be seen whether the b...

What if … Hephaistion had still been alive at the time of Alexander’s death in Babylon?

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We can state beyond doubt that  Hephaistion  was  Alexander ’s closest friend; he was his confidant and probably his lover. He undoubtedl...
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What if … Alexander had married before leaving for Asia and had produced a son?

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It is often said that Alexander should have married before leaving for Asia in order to secure his posterity, but this seems a rather s...