{"id":217,"date":"2004-07-04T03:26:00","date_gmt":"2004-07-04T03:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=217"},"modified":"2004-07-04T03:26:00","modified_gmt":"2004-07-04T03:26:00","slug":"217","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=217","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Now here is a ‘Pagan survival’<\/strong><\/p>\n

Is Alexander the Great’s body actually in Venice? In the current issue of History Today<\/em>, historian Andrew Chugg makes the case<\/a> that the mummified body of “St. Mark” treasured in Venice might actually be that of the world-conqueror Alexander (356-323 BCE). (Article available online, registration required.) It’s all timed for the movie<\/a>, of course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Now here is a ‘Pagan survival’ Is Alexander the Great’s body actually in Venice? In the current issue of History Today, historian Andrew Chugg makes the case that the mummified body of “St. Mark” treasured in Venice might actually be that of the world-conqueror Alexander (356-323 BCE). (Article available online, registration required.) It’s all timed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s6xQTg-217","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1310,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1310","url_meta":{"origin":217,"position":0},"title":"Is Your Tuesday Fat or with Pancakes?","author":"Chas S. 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(The famous Cleopatra was actually the seventh ethnic Greek queen of Egypt of that name.)\u00b6 Everything about Alexander the Great.\u00b6 Those and more web directories at Isidore of Seville.\u00b6 Dianne Sylvan's \"list of things I don't\/do care about.\" As one of the comments said, it would\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Greece\"","block_context":{"text":"Greece","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=greece"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":319,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=319","url_meta":{"origin":217,"position":2},"title":"Alexander and the Critics I\u2026","author":"Chas S. 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