Megas Alexandros

Finding these two great men side by side at the National Archaeological Museum of Athens is absolutely thrilling . I often wonde...

I don’t remember why exactly I purchased Nicholas J. Saunders’ book “ Alexander’s Tomb, the Two Thousand Year Obsession to Find the Lost ...

In a previous article (see: Hellenistic Petra, an indirect heritage of Alexander ) I explained how Petra , although it was not explicitly ...

Alexander ’s visit to Athens is one of those events that is generally overlooked when reading about his exploits, even by ancient historia...

Tourists flock by dozens of busloads to visit the thermal springs of Pamukkale , which in Turkish means “cotton castle,” hardly aware of th...

H ephaistion died in Ecbatana  in October 324 BC after being seriously ill with a high fever for about seven days. His symptoms may indica...

How unlikely to find an unknown and unchartered city, but this is what happened just recently high up Mount Pindos in Northern Greece ! ...

Strangely enough, Conquest and Empire. The Reign of Alexander the Great by A.B. Bosworth (ISBN 0-521-40679-X) is on my bookshelves for ...

The year is 144 AD, the location the city of Laodicea near Hierapolis   (modern Pamukkale) , the lawmaker Aulus Vicirius Matrialis who was...

The Symposium by Plato (ISBN 0-14-044024-0) is not exactly my kind of reading but it must be for those persons really interested in phi...