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Alita wrote:Is anyone on this forum Greek by any chance? If not, what is your background(s)?

Greek Canadian who spent last summer in Greece.

Well that sounds like a lot of fun. No matter what, it keeps The Great One's name alive and revives an interest in the real one, not the diet (er...sorry) the DEITY. hehehe. I wish I could see it. Bet it's hilarious. I'm sure Alexander and Hephaestion are have a good giggle over it too. At first I ...

Jason my friend, I'm sure you know that you're going to get a lot of comments on what you just said. Athenians=parasites! :lol: As radical as this sounds you may have a point (strategically speaking). The question that has to come up is: once Alexander left for Asia, did the Athenians present any pr...

I love your writing style! You don't pull any punches. Caesar and Alexander could prove to be ruthless in the field--but as a rule they didn't destroy everything in their path. Genghis would have not only nailed Demosthenes to a tree but would have eliminated every member of his family until the &qu...

I agree wholeheartedly with the numbers. Sources like Arrian in his "The Campaigns of Alexander" quote, "Darius' total force was estimated at 40,000 cavalry, 1,000,000 infantry, 200 scythe chariots, and a few elephants...". The translater cites two other sources: Curtius offers a...

We meet again, Jasonxx. I won't argue with you on Genghis Khan's methods of rule. There is no question that insubordination was not even imagined and a Demosthenes wouldn't have got past 'hello'. The fact that Alexander was born to priviledge I don't believe belittles his accomplishments. Genghis ma...

Jasonxx, point taken. When I stated that the Gauls were hardly the Persians I was referring to the numbers of men AND resources that Darius had available as opposed to the Gauls. There is no question that even up, the Gauls were far more ferocious fighters than the Persians (and you're right, most o...

The Khans may have had access to gunpowder as the Chinese had already invented it but they had not yet weaponized it. Genghis Khan was the ferocious leader of the hordes but it was his grandson, Kublai Khan who put a stamp on the empire. This was the man that Marco Polo travelled so far to see. Alex...

This discussion gets even more complex when you consider that Caesar spent an inordinate amount of time and resources in fighting with other Romans. If the Senate had been completely supportive of his aims, he might have accomplished more in the area of imperialism. Alexander was free of those restr...

The dogs are greyhounds probably the oldest of the purebreeds. The greyhound sites of various dog breed clubs give a lot more information.

If any Hollywood types are out there, you're welcome to buy the rights to my book, PATRIDA. But I want it cast by me (and okayed by my pothos friends). Philip...........Russell Crowe :D Olympias......Salma Hayek (yeah I know, the accent...call a voice coach) :wink: Alexander.....Brad Pitt (might be ...

There is no question that Olympias was a highly intelligent, impulsive woman who may or may not have contributed to the assassination of her husband and the later murders of his last wife and child. Her sexual appetites are guessed at as historians agree that she was a Dionysian and part of that wor...

I wouldn't compare Olympias with todays celebrities. She had much more power and grandeur than any of the Hollywoodites. I also believe she has been seriously maligned by historians and blamed of a lot of things (including Philip's assassination) which she may not have been guilty of. (although I, ...

Beatriki Liking Actors I think is the image they portray. I would say Russel Crowes High Is Gladiator. And the image is Maximus that people remember. Since Gladiator and a little succes with the navy film, Hes pretty well nosed dived. I think people cant see past Titanic with Decaprio, But as I sai...

Why would any Greek dare fight against a descendant of Heracles - a man begat by the father of the gods?, let alone Achilles' line. Surely such a man would have flowers thrown at his feet wherever he went in the Greek world - if it was really believed to be the case. Wouldn't that be so? Such a man...