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But that's not what you said. You said "Christianity is a Western religion", which it isn't; and the Orthodox (Russian and Greek or other Eastern), and Assyrian Christians, would take umbrage at the suggestion that "the Roman Catholic Church is the one true church of Christianity&quo...

Hi Alexanthors and Ed, I agree with you that there was not a west - east distinction at that time. There was a Greek - barbarian distinction. And we all know that the tribes north of Danube, Germania, Gaul, Hispania and Britannia were far more barbaric than the ones of Egypt and Persia to Greeks. Ni...

So dont ask me if mithraism had an effect on christianity cause the answer is OFC. And i am sure that you will agree that without Alexander mithraism might have never evovlved in Europe. And ofcource Alexander was not the only parameter on that thing either. I am going to stress again that the main...

In the first one, I meant that I was agreeing with Alexkhan (sp?) that Alexander gave the Roman Empire the chance to spread east, even though I was disagreeing with him(?) that Alexander made a difference to the spread of Christianity through those parts of the Roman Empire where Christianity survi...

Can we imagine Christianity forming under the auspices of the Persian Empire? Of course not. There couldn't have ever been Christianity without stoicism. And stoicism couldn't have evolved and spread to middle east without centers like Antioch and Alexandria via koine Greek and of course Christiani...

Alexander didn't need to swim. The sea bowed to him. Just sorta moved over to let the son of Zeus pass. Beat that Kieren Perkins.

Now there, to be honest, I think you go too far. Christianity as the pillar of Western civilisation - OK, I can buy that. But it would have spread from Rome out through Europe, with or without Alexander. The Roman Empire gave it the chance to spread, but what gave the Roman Empire its chance, what ...

And that's what Stone's problem was. He didn't take a stand in some issues; but he took one on others. The ones he took it on were details; the ones he skipped were the central themes of the story. My opinions follow. Phoebus, I totally have to agree with you here. Stone was unwilling to 'fill in t...

Hi alexkhan2000,

I'm usually a bit of a detractor of Alexander on this forum (relatively speaking of course) but that was a great post! It was so well balanced, I agree with pretty much everything.

But having said that, it did raise a wry smile to see how 'feminine-looking' he made Hephaistion appear, in the balcony scene in particular. Making it easy to swallow, I wonder? But, to his credit, at least he lets Hephaistion be just as tough and violent as everyone else at Gaugamela. There was a ...

By the way, what do you guys make of the story that Darius III asked the advice of a certain Charidemus from Athens regarding the Alexander. When told that the Persians would be defeated by the Macedonians, had his throat cut on the spot? Courtesy of Curtius. Was Darius really that stupid/despotic? ...

You're right that we should question the extant record to ensure the integrity of what we learn. On the other hand, are you sure that you're not exercising a sort of similar prejudice as the ancient Hellene historians--but from a different angle? It seems to me that doubting that Memnon did what he...

Semari I couldnt agree more that people are less suseptable. Infact sadly I think its more and in a tragic way. [...] Glossy mags. Whos dating who. Shes wearing this hes done that. Hi Kenny, I had totally missed this post of yours. Must've gone up just before the forum went down. I think we're pret...

Hey, you guys are all doing well. The average for that quiz is 8/15. I got 15/15 too. But I do have a bit of an unhealthy obsession with Alexander and Hephaistion. :oops: Now Paralus, Derek, why did I think that anybody who was important (nobles, Alexander's friends etc) would have automatically bee...

Not kidding people.

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