Discussing Alexander
Forbes has been posting a series of informed and informative conversations about Alexander the Great between Paul Cartledge (A.G. Leventis Professor of Greek Culture at Cambridge University, author of Alexander the Great, editor of Responses to Oliver Stone's Alexander) and James Romm (Professor of Classics at Bard College, editor of Alexander the Great: Selections from Arrian, Diodorus, Plutarch, and Quintus Curtius and of The Landmark Arrian: The Campaigns of Alexander). These conversations are directed toward a general audience but are of interest to the specialist as well.
The first of these can be found at:
http://blogs.forbes.com/booked/2010/12/12/two-great-historians-on-alexander-the-great-part-one/
http://blogs.forbes.com/booked/2010/12/17/two-great-historians-on-alexander-the-great-part-two/
http://blogs.forbes.com/booked/2010/12/20/two-historians-talk-alexander-the-great-part-3/
http://blogs.forbes.com/booked/2011/01/03/two-great-historians-talk-alexander-the-great-part-4/
http://blogs.forbes.com/booked/2011/01/28/two-great-historians-talk-alexander-the-great-part-6/
Letter to President Obama
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- On May 18th, 2009,
200 Classical Scholars from around the world, sent a letter to the President of the United States of America, Barack Obama. - On June 22nd, 2009,
an update with 332 signatures was sent.
Since then, the list of cosigners has grown to 376, see Addenda.
- On May 18th, 2009,
Macedonian coin, stating in Greek: "ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ"
(in English: "ALEXANDER'S")