#ancient Macedonia

[appljuiceboxx]

why do all the people named alexander need a boypal they have to be close with??

like, you got alexander the great? boom you got hephaestion.

you have tsar alexander of russia?? you gotta have napoleon.

you have alexander hamilton?? get a john laurens to go w that.

#appl talks #history #alexander hamilton #alexander the great #tsar alexander i #hamilton #historical lams #hephaestion #ancient macedonia

[capelinssm]

Chibi Alexander and Hephaistion

#ancient history #ancient greece #ancient macedonia #alexander the great #hephaistion #hephaestion #history #historical art #alexander/hephaestion #digital art

[jeannereames]

So you said you hoped they didn't use those nicknames, Alex, Heph, and Ptol. I thought Heph was a little weird, but I didn't mind the others. What nicknames would you have suggested instead? You said you suggested Greek ones. What were they?

Ah.... I'm glad somebody asked!

First, I've talked HERE about nicknames and endearments in ancient Greece. It's not the same as now. Not every culture makes nicknames by shortening. Yet even in my own novels I used nicknames to make unfamiliar names more accessible to readers.

So I get why nicknames might be valuable. But it's possible to use more likely ones!

What would be natural Greek nicknames? First, the names we know them by are Latinized, not their real names. In Dancing with the Lion I used the actual Greek, because it affected only a few and weren't that different. But here are the Latin, Greek, and known/likely nicknames.

Alexander = Alexandros (a-LEX-an-dros) = Aleko(s)

Ptolemy = Ptolemaios (tol-eh-MAI-os) = Ptolas

Hephaestion = Hephaistion (he-pais-TEE-on) = Phaistas/Phaiton

"Alex" and "Tol" aren't that far off. But "Heph"? Really? HUGH HEFNER is who immediately comes to mind: give him a pipe and a smoking robe. Maybe they thought "young people won't know..." but chatting with a 23-year-old student, that was the first thing she said. "It sounds like Hugh Hefner."

Virtually all I've heard from people is ridicule for the nicknames. This is one thing I completely disavow all responsibility for. I told them.

#asks #alexander: the making of a god #Alexander the Great #Hephaistion #Hephaestion #Ptolemy #ancient Greece #nicknames in ancient Greece #Classics #ancient Macedonia #tagamemnon #Alexander on tv

[ancientstuff]

For Alexander-philes and others, but them particularly.

#archaeology #ancient Greece #ancient Macedonia #Palace of Aigai

[mapsontheweb]

Pictorial map of the Kingdom of Macedonia during the reign of Philip II

by cattette1

#maps #ancient macedonia #philip ii #4th century bc #cattette1 #twsourced

[illustratus]

Alexander The Great Refusing Water In The Desert

by Tom Lovell

#alexander the great #art #tom lovell #alexander #desert #macedonian #army #history #antiquity #ancient greece #ancient greek #conquest #europe #european #ancient macedonia #macedonia

[pothos-hemitheos]

a handsome chappy

#alexander the great #hephaestion #alexander iii of macedon #alexander x hephaestion #alexander of macedon #ancient macedonia #phillip ii #british museum #colonialism

[blueiskewl]

Greece Reopens the 2,400-Year-Old Palace Where Alexander the Great Was Crowned

The 2,300-year-old Palace of Aigai—the largest building in classical Greece—had been under renovation for 16 years.

On the day he was crowned king of Macedonia, Alexander the Great stood atop the intricately patterned marble floors of the Palace of Aigai. This week, the historic palace finally opened to the public after a 16-year-long restoration, report Derek Gatopoulos and Costas Kantouris of the Associated Press (AP).

At 160,000 square feet, the Palace of Aigai was classical Greece’s largest structure. Built primarily by Alexander’s father, Phillip II, in the fourth century B.C.E., it was the home of the Argead dynasty, ancient Macedonia’s ruling family. It was destroyed by the Romans in 148 B.C.E. and endured a subsequent series of lootings. Renovating and excavating this sprawling monument was a serious undertaking, costing over 20 million euros ($22 million).

The Greek government was able to maintain the “general appearance” of the site amid careful alterations to the monument’s towering marble columns, delicate mosaics and textured flooring, according to Xiaofei Xu and Chris Liakos. The palace once featured large column-lined courtyards, worship sites and expansive banquet halls, and its restoration presented a “three-dimensional jigsaw puzzle,” per the AP. Archaeologists solved it by combining stones from the structure’s ruins with replica parts to reproduce the original structures.

Archaeologist Angeliki Kottaridi started working on the renovation efforts as a university student. Overseeing the project’s progress over many years and contributing to its excavation and reconstruction, Kottardi became a leading figure in the project.

“What you discover is stones scattered in the dirt, and pieces of mosaics here and there,” Kottaridi told state television before an opening ceremony on Friday, per the AP. “Then you have to assemble things, and that’s the real joy of the researcher.”

The Palace of Aigai is located in northern Greece between what are now the towns of Palatitsia and Vergina. Its reopening builds on discoveries made in the late 1970s by Greek archaeologist Manolis Andronikos, who unearthed a cluster of royal Macedonian artifacts, including gold and silver ceremonial weapons and armor, and burials, one of which is thought to contain Phillip’s remains. The palace and its neighboring tombs are now a UNESCO World Heritage site.

Deeming it “among the most important archaeological sites in Europe,” UNESCO writes that the Palace of Aigai “represents an exceptional testimony to a significant development in European civilization, at the transition from the classical city state to the imperial structure of the Hellenistic and Roman periods.”

As the site of the first capital of the ancient kingdom of Macedonia, the Palace of Aigai signifies the onset of Alexander’s rule, which would stretch from Asia to the Middle East, and provides a crucial window into Macedonian culture.

“The importance of such monuments transcends local boundaries, becoming property of all humanity,” said Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Greece’s prime minister, at the inauguration event, per CNN. “And we as the custodians of this precious cultural heritage, we must protect it, highlight it, promote it and at the same time expand the horizons revealed by each new facet.”

By Catherine Duncan.

#Greece Reopens the 2400-Year-Old Palace Where Alexander the Great Was Crowned #Palace of Aigai #Argead dynasty #Phillip II #ancient artifacts #archeology #archeolgst #history #history news #ancient history #ancient culture #ancient civilizations #ancient macedonia #ancient greece #greek history #greek art

[jules-of-the-black-forest]

Bagoas *dreamily*: Alexander would jump in front of a charging lion for you.

Hephaistion, head in his hands: Alexander would jump in front of a charging lion for fun!

Hello Tumblr, I am officially here and about to go feral on my new obsession, which I intend to make everyone's problem.

#alexander the great #hephaestion #hephaistion #incorrect quotes #bagoas #ancient macedonia #i'm on my bullshit again #you can't stop me #history shitposting

[leonxlykos]

Hephaestion sketch

Based on the statue in the Getty Museum

#hephaestion #alexander the great #ancient greece #ancient macedonia #classical art #sketch

[evilios]

Gold-blossomed myrtle wreath from a tomb in Macedonia (detail), 350-300 BCE.

#AES : ANTIGÜEDADES 💎 #macedonian art #ancient macedonia #museum finds

[capelinssm]

Alexander/Hephaistion dynamics

ref

https://x.com/_goblin_mom/status/1781024754557759919?s=46&t=2tEbCteQYhTCgiWGER9q8Q

#ancient history #ancient greece #ancient macedonia #alexander the great #hephaistion #hephaestion #alexander/hephaestion #history #historical art #digital art

[jeannereames]

Any plans for Hephaestion's biography? I think all fangirls and fanboys alike are longing for one 🤩

I'm actually working on this even now. It's what my sabbatical is for. Playing for Keeps: Hephaistion and Krateros at the Court of Alexander the Great. (This is the working title; the final may or may not match.)

Witness my Work Wall. Those are all references to both men in the 5 bios + Polyaenus. Starting on other sources (Moralia, Deipnosophistai) tomorrow. (Today got blown on conference and the Netflix thing.)

Then I'll start putting it all together, discuss the sources and their narratives, etc. I've already made what I think may be a startling discovery, which I'm not ready to share. (In part because I might be wrong.)

#Hephaistion #Hephaestion #asks #Krateros #Craterus #Classics #tagamemnon #ancient Macedonia #alexander the great

[siegeperilousgalahad]

"Such was the end of Philip, who had made himself the greatest of the kings of Europe in his time, and because of the extent of his kingdom had made himself a throned companion of the twelve gods"

Diodorus Siculus book 16.

#philip ii of macedon #ancient Macedonia #ancient greece #diodorus Siculus #ancient greek history

[spookyoakie]

I don’t think we discuss Alexander the Great’s sideburns enough

#alexander the great #classics #classical studies #classical civilisation #ancient greece #ancient macedonia #it’s certainly a choice

[illustratus]

The Dying Alexander the Great bids farewell to his Army

by Karl von Piloty

#alexander the great #dying #bed #art #karl von piloty #army #soldiers #alexander #antiquity #history #europe #european #ancient macedonia #macedonian #macedonia #ancient greek #ancient greece #death #generals #roxana #roxanna #roxane #roxanne