Totally possible!
A primitive rum.
And now with this finding in Pakistan! That's terrific.
STG
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- Sat Sep 22, 2012 4:03 am
- Forum: Art and Culture
- Topic: I like rum!
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3945
- Sat Sep 22, 2012 1:50 am
- Forum: The Diadochi
- Topic: Alexandria's tsunamis
- Replies: 1
- Views: 4177
Alexandria's tsunamis
Hello, Anyone can give me an idea of how much of Alexandria original seashore line has been drowned during all those tsunami events (even after 350AD...). I was thinking about the location of Alexander's tomb, and its relation to the seashore. I've seen these pictures (http://www.oddee.com/item_9669...
- Fri Sep 21, 2012 1:07 am
- Forum: Book reviews
- Topic: John Latsis Books of Greek Museums, courtesy of system1988
- Replies: 15
- Views: 9242
Re: Greece before Alexander
Amazing e-book!
Should be mentioned in the main forum really!
Should be mentioned in the main forum really!
- Thu Sep 13, 2012 2:56 pm
- Forum: Alexander's contemporaries
- Topic: GRBS article
- Replies: 42
- Views: 18907
Re: GRBS article
I think that the burning was deliberate: http://suite101.com/article/alexander-a ... is-a175843
- Sun Aug 26, 2012 10:01 pm
- Forum: Alexander's contemporaries
- Topic: Amyntoros: Who says?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1758
Amyntoros: Who says?
Hello,
The second name for Hephaistion, Amyntoros, which of the ancient sources mention it?
Thanks!
The second name for Hephaistion, Amyntoros, which of the ancient sources mention it?
Thanks!
- Thu Aug 02, 2012 1:12 am
- Forum: Art and Culture
- Topic: I like rum!
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3945
Re: I like rum!
Hello athenas owl, Mm, mead! Yep, seems that Marco Polo got some fermented beverage from sugar cane when in Persia, according to wiki. Known as "brum" in Malaysia. And, yes, I also checked distilling processes, and it did exist in a very rudimentar way, I think, in Asia and other places, c...
- Sat Jul 28, 2012 9:58 pm
- Forum: Art and Culture
- Topic: I like rum!
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3945
I like rum!
OK, now let's try it Sober (had to edit the original post) Hello people, I was searching for a Mojito receipe today morning (if you don't know what a Mojito is, it is a drink prepared with white Cuban rum, Brazilians have it in the morning instead of milk :wink: Sorry, joking ), and I came across an...
- Sat May 12, 2012 4:20 am
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Alexander in Guinness book?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 5867
Re: Alexander in Guinness book?
Well, let me see: 1 - I always think of him as the first westerner to actually sit on an eastern throne. I may very well be wrong though. There is the 2 - siege of Tyre and the causeway, but that would have been a teamwork (I mean, a 'brainstorming' with councelors...). So doesnt count, does it? And...
- Sun May 06, 2012 1:31 am
- Forum: Alexander's contemporaries
- Topic: The Relationship of Alexander and Hephaestion
- Replies: 63
- Views: 36324
Re: The Relationship of Alexander and Hephaestion
OK, here is my very (very) belated participation on one of the Top 5 "most recurrent questions of world history"! I choose the third one, and my stress is not on the "lovers" thing, but on the "love" thing. As some others believe, I do think that Alexander and Hephaisti...
- Sun Apr 29, 2012 6:21 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Birthday again; a study in method now with poll!
- Replies: 20
- Views: 8177
Re: Birthday again; a study in method
At this time it was reported that the statue of Orpheus, son of Oeagrus the Thracian, which was in Pieris, sweated incessantly. Various were the explanations of this prodigy given by the soothsayers; but Aristander, a man of Telmissus, a soothsayer, bade Alexander take courage; for he said it was e...
- Sat Apr 28, 2012 11:55 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Birthday again; a study in method now with poll!
- Replies: 20
- Views: 8177
Re: Birthday again; a study in method
Well, this may not be very factual, but I remember I read long ago about the fire in the Temple of Artemis in Epheso, when he was born, and there was this mention of a "crying statue" or any such thing. Do you people recall any story about a condensation phenomenom? I just can't find this ...
- Sat Apr 21, 2012 11:06 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: something for everyone.
- Replies: 21
- Views: 9903
...And a Brazilian song on Alexander & wife
Oh, and one more thing: there is a 70's Brazilian song, built on the poetical metric of sonnets used in the folk songs of Brazilian northeast (called "cordel") that introduced me first-hand to the Iliad and also Alexander (I remember so clearly that I used to think that those stories were ...
- Sat Apr 21, 2012 10:33 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: something for everyone.
- Replies: 21
- Views: 9903
Re: something for everyone.
Well, I was told a couple of things about him by dad - the Gordian Knot is one of them. But he was just OK then (like OK, what a genius, bt only OK). But I got really fascinated when I learned that he went so far as India, and that he traveled through not very well-known places in Central Asia (quit...
- Wed Apr 18, 2012 3:27 am
- Forum: Alexander's contemporaries
- Topic: Alexander's Discretion & Hephaistion
- Replies: 47
- Views: 27806
Re: Alexander's Discretion & Hephaistion
Hi there Chris, I am late here, but I would like to share a thought: The lack of data about Hephaestion, which leaves sooo many blank spaces for Alex's admirers (me including 8) ), and gives out a profusion of Why's (oh dear, we will hardly know, damn! :cry: ), must be one big reason for some schola...
- Mon Apr 02, 2012 12:35 am
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Droit du seigneur back there
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2036
Re: Droit du seigneur back there
Ok, not too well known in medieaval times! I thought it had been widely accepted that that happend, and I see it hasnt. I was checking internet, and what I did find was that the 'sacred marriage' thing with kings and high priestesses goes back hundreds of years before Alexander, so.... Shouldnt be ...