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- Wed Dec 06, 2006 6:21 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Enigma 2 (the truth)
- Replies: 17
- Views: 7184
Hi, all. I don’t see many differences between what happened and what could have happened as far as Christianity is concerned. After all, in the second century b.C. the Jews had already rebelled against the Seleucids, who were a Macedonic empire and not always tolerant in religious matters; it was t...
- Fri Dec 01, 2006 8:35 pm
- Forum: 'Off-topic' forum
- Topic: 300 Spartans
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3458
Actors
cheers val i got it penciled in. i know none of the actors so maybe thats a good thing. i need a little antidote for all the american comedies out next year. kenny Gerard Butler is Leonidas - you might remember him from Wes Craven's "Dracula 2000" where he played the count who was Judas I...
- Tue Nov 28, 2006 9:43 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Archimedes Palimpsest
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2184
Archimedes Palimpsest
Apparently they've found some new information on Salamis and Chaeronea. Here's a link in the NY Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/27/arts/27greek.html?hp&ex=1164603600&en=0d1ab07f3d6bdddf&ei=5094&partner=homepage And here's the homepage of the research on the Palimpsest: http://w...
- Fri Nov 24, 2006 3:06 pm
- Forum: Alexander the Great in the Media
- Topic: Pankration blog
- Replies: 49
- Views: 21628
Re: Gomi!
I figured that cheering might not be acceptable, hence .stavros wrote:is there anything bothering u twisted evil????rjones2818 wrote:Gomi!
Gomi!!
Gomi!!!
Gomi's the closest person, along with Fedor, to being my idea of a fighting God.
Plus he's the best looking of the fighters.
Rex
- Tue Nov 21, 2006 2:11 pm
- Forum: Alexander the Great in the Media
- Topic: Pankration blog
- Replies: 49
- Views: 21628
Gomi!
Gomi!
Gomi!!
Gomi!!!
Gomi!!
Gomi!!!
- Thu Nov 16, 2006 6:07 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Alexander's appearance
- Replies: 15
- Views: 6600
Re:
I was watching Tommy last night. I tend to think that Roger Daltry is probably as close to what I think Alexander looks like of anybody I've seen. He needs a little more thickness, but if anybody were to write an alternate universe "Alexander at 60," Mr. Daltry is who I would choose to pla...
- Fri Nov 03, 2006 3:15 pm
- Forum: Art and Culture
- Topic: Who Ever Heard Of The Italian Empire?
- Replies: 34
- Views: 12320
re:
Efstathios, that was exactly what i was going to say... I think if theres a debate on how the empire should be called the first to give an answer would have to be Alexander himself. And so he did. After the battle of Granicus Alexander sent to Athens 300 persian armors with the following message: &...
- Thu Oct 19, 2006 10:10 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Overated and Lucky
- Replies: 30
- Views: 9203
Spot on Revisionist
We know that there are enough people who want to tear down Alexander. We shouldn't be amazed when one writes about it on the board. My guess is that he's just trolling.
Rex
- Wed Sep 06, 2006 5:34 pm
- Forum: Book reviews
- Topic: Shanameh by Abolqasem Ferdowsi
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2319
re: Shahnameh
The Shahnameh appears to be one of the foundations for Nizami's Sikander Nama E. Bara, which has the isbn 8186142851. The most current volumes in English are beautiful, at least the volume with Alexander in it, and are available at amazon.com. The volume with Alexander in it has the isbn of 09342116...
- Wed Sep 06, 2006 5:02 pm
- Forum: Book reviews
- Topic: Shanameh by Abolqasem Ferdowsi
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2319
re: Shanameh
The most current english editions cost about $120 each - 3 vols. - and may be the most beautiful books I've seen recently (well, at least the Alexander volume - here's the isbn: 093421168X ). The Shanameh sections on our hero are similar to the Persian Alexander Romance Sikandernameh e bara by Nazim...
- Fri Aug 25, 2006 10:45 pm
- Forum: Alexander's contemporaries
- Topic: Bagoas ( Some clarification needed )
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4674
Yes, I do have the book...I'm currently reading it so I'm not able to give you the total low down. Dr. Pal's writing style is interesting (it has been suggested that English may be a second language), but I've been reading his web pages for a while. He does do a lot of connecting by names by roots a...
- Thu Aug 24, 2006 5:01 pm
- Forum: Alexander's contemporaries
- Topic: Bagoas ( Some clarification needed )
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4674
Re: Bagoas
Hi all, One of the main points in Ranajit Pal's Non-Jonesian Indology and Alexander is that Bagoas the Eunuch (as opposed to Bagoas the boy toy :twisted: ) was that he survived and attached himself to Alexander as he headed toward India. It's a very fascinating view, IMHO. Copies of the book are ver...
- Thu Jul 20, 2006 10:46 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: HAPPY BIRTHDAY ALEXANDER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2334
- Wed Jun 28, 2006 9:03 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: How do you describe/explain Alexander in <= 4 sentences?
- Replies: 59
- Views: 22587
Amnytoros wrote: theaccursed Quote: Instead he's, at best, a mad, delusional, paranoid drunk who possibly wanted to have sex with his mother and possibly was behind the murder of his father...and was a decent, or even pretty good, or even brilliant commander. rjones2818 Quote: I tend to side with m...
- Tue Jun 27, 2006 6:56 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: How do you describe/explain Alexander in <= 4 sentences?
- Replies: 59
- Views: 22587