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A collaborative blog for the Classics grad students of the University of Cambridge. Here are some useful websites we’ve discovered on our journeys around the Internet. The Perseus Digital Library. Searchable Greek and Latin texts and English translations. Also a searchable database of art historical and archaeological images. Roman Gazetteer with images of Roman towns and monuments, and Greek and Latin texts. The Arthur Evans Archive. The Beazley Archive Pottery Database. Cambridge; the British Museum.
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Thracian Campaign | The Second Achilles
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Alexander the Great – He lives and reigns. Posts Tagged With: Thracian Campaign. August 9, 2015. A few days ago I read the opening pages of Arrian’s. While doing so, I was struck by his account of Alexander’s Thracian campaign, and what it told me about the Macedonian king’s quality of generalship, even at the young age of 20. The first incident to jump out at me was the famous cart manoeuvre. As Arrian ( I.1-2. Alexander, however, avoided any casualties, firstly by ordering those men who could to step o...
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Cleitus son of Bardylis | The Second Achilles
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Alexander the Great – He lives and reigns. Posts Tagged With: Cleitus son of Bardylis. August 9, 2015. A few days ago I read the opening pages of Arrian’s. While doing so, I was struck by his account of Alexander’s Thracian campaign, and what it told me about the Macedonian king’s quality of generalship, even at the young age of 20. The first incident to jump out at me was the famous cart manoeuvre. As Arrian ( I.1-2. Alexander, however, avoided any casualties, firstly by ordering those men who could to ...
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Eordaicus | The Second Achilles
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Alexander the Great – He lives and reigns. Posts Tagged With: Eordaicus. August 9, 2015. A few days ago I read the opening pages of Arrian’s. While doing so, I was struck by his account of Alexander’s Thracian campaign, and what it told me about the Macedonian king’s quality of generalship, even at the young age of 20. The first incident to jump out at me was the famous cart manoeuvre. As Arrian ( I.1-2. Alexander, however, avoided any casualties, firstly by ordering those men who could to step out of th...
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The Second Achilles | Alexander the Great – He lives and reigns | Page 2
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Alexander the Great – He lives and reigns. Newer posts →. April 16, 2016. Book I Lines 33-44. In the last post we saw how Agamemnon incurred Apollo’s wrath by refusing to return Chryseis to her father, a priest of the god. Agamemnon angrily ordered Chryses out of his presence and so today, we meet the latter wandering helplessly ‘along the shore / of the loud-roaring sea’ (L.34-5). I have just started reading. By Adam Nicholson, which is sub-titled. In it, he notes Homer’s reference to the. Is it one of ...
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TSA Tumblr Posts | The Second Achilles
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Alexander the Great – He lives and reigns. My rationale for maintaining a Tumblr page. Is that there might be people who use Tumblr who don’t read blogs but who, if I can create interesting posts that marry text and pictures, be tempted to give that a read instead. A chapter-by-chapter read through of Plutarch’s account of Alexander’s life. Wars of the Diadochi. A read through of Diodorus’ account of the conflicts that destroyed Alexander’s empire. Words of Alexander,. Alexander's Right Hand. The Mieza B...
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The Ptolemaic Dynasty | The Second Achilles
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Alexander the Great – He lives and reigns. Each king’s throne name is given in. 332 – 305 BC. 332 – 323. Alexander III the Great. 323 – 317. 317 – 305. 305 – 30 BC. 305 – 283/2. 8211; Beloved of Amun, Chosen of Re. Joint-kingship with Philadelphus from 285-283/2. Between 323 and 305 Ptolemy ruled Egypt as satrap (governor) on behalf of Philip III and Alexander IV. 285 – 246. 8211; Powerful is the Soul of Re, Beloved of Amun. 246 – 222. Ptolemy III Euergetes I. 8211; Heir of the Twin Gods, Chosen of Amun.
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Pelium | The Second Achilles
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Alexander the Great – He lives and reigns. Posts Tagged With: Pelium. August 9, 2015. A few days ago I read the opening pages of Arrian’s. While doing so, I was struck by his account of Alexander’s Thracian campaign, and what it told me about the Macedonian king’s quality of generalship, even at the young age of 20. The first incident to jump out at me was the famous cart manoeuvre. As Arrian ( I.1-2. Alexander, however, avoided any casualties, firstly by ordering those men who could to step out of the c...
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