Blood & Gold 3.0

I'd hate to see this one neglected or abandoned too long.

Could we see an exposition on Argead court titles and offices like in the original instalment?
 
Argead/Hellenistic court positions might well include something along the lines of these Ptolemaic court and professional administrative positions that I've found in this work by E.R. Bevan that I've found on the Lacus Curtius site.

Archedeatros (Royal Seneschal)

Archiatros (Royal Physician)

Archioinochooi (Royal Cupbearers)

Archikynegos (Royal Huntsman)

Archyperetes (Paymaster-in-chief)

Antigraphos (Controller)


Dioiketes (Originally an estate manager, but was the Ptolemaic finance minister and chief government official)

Edeatros (Master of the table)

Eklogistes (Accountant or Secretary)

Eklogisterion (Chancery)

Epigonos/Epigonoi (State Courier)

Epimeletes (Curator)

Epistolographos (King's Letter-writer)

Epistates (Supervisor. In charge of tax-collection or local law enforcement)

Basilikon Grammateus (King's Secretary)

Grammateus ton Dynameon (Quarter-master general)

Hypodioketes (Sub-manager of a Nome-district. In charge of regional revenue collection and report to the royal dioiketes)

Hypomnematographos (king's writer of memoranda)

Oikonomos (private estate manager)

Stolarches (fleet commander)
 
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Standard Alexander penchant for violence, then. I wonder if his taste for atrocities will get greater as time goes by? The book I'm currently reading, Brill's Companion to Alexander the Great, which is a collection of essays, strongly suggests that Alexander became more and more bloodthirsty in later campaigns, and his Indian adventure was the most violent of them all.

I echo the call for maps- they're always very helpful, I find.

Was it? how did Porus kingdom survived BG? what do you mean "standard penchant of violence?" Alexander and Ceasar are considered saints of the ancient word with regard to treatment of populations;You don't wage war with a good heart(Ardant du Pique) and if you show clemency to the first city then all would resist.If a city surrendered it was spared,otherwise condemned all conquerors did the same and worse.The same practised continued until the 19th century(see the Peninsula War).When the Athenians reversed the order to execute all males of Mytilene,Cleon, that master of 'real politic' said to the Athenians: you don't conduct imperial politics with clemency;it is incompatible;the same principle is ecoed through the ages BG unless someone is judging actions in antiquity with modern standards...
 
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Fair enough! That's certainly more evidence than I had before, although I'm going to remain open minded until I hear it from more than one source. I wonder how such poor decision making compared to the typical ruler of the time, however. I can't imagine most were all that great.



I think it does need to be considered that Alexander was still just 27 when he died. People in their twenties are rash, and more often than not there is a mellowing as they get older. Obviously Alexander was a special case, so trying to say which way he would go is probably futile, but I think you could have plausible timelines where he stays reckless and where he matures.

Alexander the Great: 356-323 BC. He died 33 years old.
 
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