Dear Rodger, In answer to your questions: 1. The way the December seminar ended with two opposite views, the current one of Seleukid numismatists and my...
Makis Aperghis
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Feb 1, 2008 1:41 pm
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Dear Makis, You ideas do sound interesting and I would certainly be interested in seeing more detail about how you arrived at your conclusions before...
In a message dated 2/1/2008 8:41:47 AM Eastern Standard Time, maperghis@... writes: For example, I see no particular reason why Seleukos I should...
BrianKritt@...
Feb 1, 2008 3:06 pm
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Dear Brian, No offence intended. I am indebted to Seleukid numismatists' classification work and I simply analyse it also from other points of view. The...
Makis Aperghis
maperghis@...
Feb 2, 2008 4:33 pm
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Dear Marcin, Tell me how one posts papers in the document folder and I'll be happy to do so. Makis ... From: seleukids@yahoogroups.com...
Makis Aperghis
maperghis@...
Feb 2, 2008 4:34 pm
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... classification work and I simply analyse it also from other points of view. The question of royal ideology, i.e. how a king expresses himself to his...
Dear Andy, Your point is absolutely valid. The name of Alexander was indeed a very powerful one. In the first years of his rule (311-305/4), Seleukos was...
Makis Aperghis
maperghis@...
Feb 3, 2008 3:54 pm
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Makis, Your response contains disinformation, misrepresentations of what is in my book, and simple refusal to take the presented evidence into account. It is ...
BrianKritt@...
Feb 3, 2008 9:23 pm
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Dear Makis, I confess that I am a little surprised to see that you are bringing your radical theories here. When I offered my rebuttal to your views in London...
Dear Oliver, I think we ought to keep this scholarly debate at the level of ideas, facts, proofs and rebuttals. 'Belief' may enter the arena only as a last...
Makis Aperghis
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Feb 4, 2008 10:22 am
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Well said, Oliver. I am happy that the group is suddenly alive, even if the tones are a bit high... Though I am not knowledgeable enough to comment on the...
Dear Brian, You've raised quite a lot of points and I'll try to reply to them in instalments so as not to tire everybody. The first point concerns the...
Makis Aperghis
maperghis@...
Feb 5, 2008 7:23 am
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Makis, There is no possible debate with you. You are a blank wall to numismatic arguments, which you simply distort, twist and embellish with your "beliefs". ...
BrianKritt@...
Feb 5, 2008 10:12 am
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In a message dated 2/4/2008 3:02:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, dsyon@... writes: Brian and Oliver: do you accept any part at all of Makis' theory?...
BrianKritt@...
Feb 5, 2008 10:19 am
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Dear Brian, You have made clear that you are not interested in a debate. I, however, have still to respond (in installments) to your comments. I wrote that I...
Makis Aperghis
maperghis@...
Feb 5, 2008 1:37 pm
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Danny, With the exception of a part where he suggests that the xi-upsilon monogram on some western coinages represents Zeuxis of Kynagos (this cannot be proven...
Oliver, In my last message to the Seleukids Group I had copied from a Word file in which there were monograms embedded as pictures, but these did not come ...
Makis Aperghis
maperghis@...
Feb 6, 2008 9:45 am
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Makis, If you want monograms to work, I think you need to upload the file as a PDF. Oliver...
Dear all, I'm pleased that Oliver has uploaded a response to my theories. Now you have the two views in the file section to compare. In fairness to Oliver, his...
Dear all, The cylinder of Antiochus I (268 BC) from the temple of Nabû (Ezida) in Borsippa has been put on line by Jona Lendering on his Livius.org website. ...
Dear Bert, This is wonderful, as are all of the documents that you have been putting up at livius.org. You and Jona should however be aware that the coin...
CALL FOR REGISTRATION AND POSTERS for Seleukid Dissolution Conference, held at the University of Exeter July, 14th to 17th, 2008. The website has an updated...
Some responses to comments I have had some comments and questions concerning my ideas on Seleukid coinage. Here are two interesting ones, with my replies. 1....
In his posted 'Response to Aperghis', Oliver Hoover has a valid objection to my idea that Seleukid symbols mostly denote end-users by pointing to their use in...
Dear Makis, You wrote: "Parthian coins minted by Orodes I (90-77) have the names of provinces spelt out in full: Margiane, Traxiane, Areia. I suggest that...
I have been following Makis Aperghis’ proposals for the reinterpretation of the monograms and symbols on Seleucid coins, a field over which I have little...
Dear Fahrad, Thank you very much for your information on the Parthian issues. Correct me if I am wrong. When Phraates II retook cities and districts that had...
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