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Arrian: Book Two—Arrian

All quotes are from The Landmark Arrian: The Campaigns of Alexander, translation by Pamela Mensch. I wanted to add a few words on a few things that stand out about Arrian so far in his book on Alexander. Even though Arrian writes about events occurring 400 years earlier and is reworking Ptolemy’s and Aristobulus’ accounts […]

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Marathon2500 Project: Robert Strassler

The Marathon2500 Project conference call on “Herodotus and the Invention of History” just finished. It was a very relaxed talk by Robert Stassler, the creator of the Landmark series (among other things) as well as questions and discussion with Professor Paul Cartledge on Herodotus, Marathon, and the “invention” of history. My favorite part was Stassler […]

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Arrian: Book Two—he firmly refused to suspect his friends and had the strength to face death

In Book One Arrian establishes Alexander as trusting and generous with his friends while not hesitating to punish turncoats. The latter group includes Greeks who found it more expedient to follow or sympathize with the Persians. Greek mercenaries were harshly punished, at least at the battle of the Granicus River. However Alexander spared the small […]

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Recent updates

I occasionally go back to posts, especially the online resources posts, to update them with additional information or links as I find them. Here are some updates to those posts: The podcast for the April 5th conference call in the Marathon2500 series. This podcast covers “War and Sports” with Professor Thomas Scanlon. I enjoyed it […]

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Alexander and the Triballoi

Envoys now visited Alexander from all the other autonomous tribes settled near the Danube and from Syrmos, the king of the the Triballoi. Envoys also arrived from the Celts who dwelt on the Ionian Gulf. Men of enormous stature, the Celts had a high opinion of themselves. All the envoys had come desiring Alexander’s friendship, […]