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Monday, January 31, 2022

Healthcare knowledge roughly 300 years before Alexander

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Alexander’s medical knowledge is based on the teaching he received from Aristotle . Sophisticated medicine did, however, exist much earlier....
Wednesday, January 26, 2022

Who is Alexander? Part II

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[ Continued from Part 1 - Who is Alexander? ] Alexander heads for Asia at twenty-two, leaving Macedonia in the hands of his father’s trust...
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Saturday, January 22, 2022

Heraklea Sintica in southwestern Bulgaria

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There are a great number of towns going by the name Heraclea or Herakleia throughout Turkey and Greece . Wikipedia provides an enticing...
Tuesday, January 18, 2022

Alexander besieging Tyre

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[Continued from Alexander preparing for the siege of Tyre ]   As soon as the newly formed fleet was duly organized and manned, Alexander s...
Wednesday, January 12, 2022

Speaking of the Mausoleum of Alexander

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The massive circular tomb of Emperor Augustus in Rome has recently been opened to the public. This makes headline news to most people (inc...
Saturday, January 8, 2022

Rewriting the events leading to the Battle of Gaugamela

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Our history of Alexander the Great is mainly based on what the Greek reporters tell us, picked up by later authors like Arrian , Diodorus ...
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Ever since my early visits to Greece, Alexander was my faithful travel companion. Eventually, I followed him into modern-day countries such as Albania, Bulgaria, Turkey, Syria, Jordan, Egypt, Libya, Iran and Uzbekistan. Standing on the banks of the Granicus, skirting the Zagros Mountains, or crossing the Oxus River on foot gave me a totally different feeling and perspective of the events than what is recounted otherwise. I returned home with scores of stories about the heritage left by Alexander and the Hellenistic Era he initiated. My travels and encounters with Alexander were a most wonderful and exhilarating experience, which I love to share with my readers. This led me to writing my book, 'Alexander the Great was here, and so was I', which can be used as a travel guide; but also as a historical guide to follow Alexander the Great, making his way through history.
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