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by dean
Fri Jul 31, 2009 8:57 am
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: Siwah - so bad
Replies: 30
Views: 9582

Re: Siwah - so bad

Hello,

I have just seen the video on Youtube and thought that it was really good.
I bet that the sport must help the participants develop some really strong riding skills.
They seem to take the sport really seriously.

Best regards,
Dean
by dean
Thu Jul 30, 2009 12:56 pm
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: Siwah - so bad
Replies: 30
Views: 9582

Re: Siwah - so bad

Hi, just out of curiosity I had a quickglance on wiki. It says that it was first played as early as 6th century BC. In medieval times, polo was a favorite sport of the Ayyubid and Mameluke dynasties of Egypt and the Levant. Notable sultans such as Saladin and Baybars were known to play it and encour...
by dean
Wed Jul 29, 2009 10:14 pm
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: Siwah - so bad
Replies: 30
Views: 9582

Re: The Venetian Betrayal

Hello, just finished reading "The Venetian Betrayal", Steve Berry and thought I might tag my post on the end of this thread. The book has "shades of the Da'Vinci Code" according to the reviews and anyway, in the acknowledgements it attributes the idea of St Mark's tomb being Alex...
by dean
Sun Nov 30, 2008 12:39 pm
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: A policy of "fusion"?
Replies: 55
Views: 20777

Hello, Sorry due to work I am unable to write much on the forum, or at least half as much as I would like... Looking at the major academics opinions,, on the subject. Tarn- seems to be the academic who leads on the theme that Alexander was interested in one big "brotherhood of man". I don'...
by dean
Sun Nov 23, 2008 11:22 pm
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: A policy of "fusion"?
Replies: 55
Views: 20777

Hello Was just flicking through my copy of Lane Fox's "Alexander the Great" and reading his treatment of the weddings at Susa- Interesting- I wasn't aware that Seleucus married no less than the daughter of Spitamenes- Apama One thing that I also found interesting was his observation that t...
by dean
Fri Nov 21, 2008 10:46 am
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: A policy of "fusion"?
Replies: 55
Views: 20777

Policy of Fusion, I suppose by way of summary to this thread we can say that the idea of a theory of fusion is totally erroneous- and there is no evidence to make us believe that in any moment throughout Alexander's life that he desired or showed any interest in one big happy family of man- stemming...
by dean
Mon Nov 17, 2008 12:21 pm
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: A policy of "fusion"?
Replies: 55
Views: 20777

Hello, OK Marcus, point taken. Either way, this thread is dealing with the "policy of fusion" and the only reason I brought up the 10000 guys who got the bone-steak knives was to say that in spite of this amount of guys and another 10000 or more persian ladies- the end result doesn't seem ...
by dean
Sun Nov 16, 2008 3:52 pm
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: A policy of "fusion"?
Replies: 55
Views: 20777

Hello, initially I had believed that the weddings were a wonderful way to bring everybody together- but of course- you don't have to read Green's bio to see that the weddings was a means to an end. The end was of course a new generation of successors that would be Alexander's way of maintaining Mace...
by dean
Sat Nov 15, 2008 10:19 pm
Forum: Comments, help, suggestions etc
Topic: How can we improve the main Pothos site?
Replies: 65
Views: 24821

alter egos

Hello Fiona, just read your piece on Hephaestion and thought it was very well written, quite to the point and informative,and I also like all the cross refernces to the sources. As you say in the piece, Hephaestion was Alexander's "alt3r ego." - and I think that Alexander's closeness to hi...
by dean
Wed Sep 10, 2008 12:53 pm
Forum: Art and Culture
Topic: Rm 22.
Replies: 3
Views: 2027

Hello Marcus, The room where you see the bust of Alexander is titled "The world of Alexander the great"- there is a statue of Artemisa and a massive Mollosian hound, I missed the Porus coins. No, don't get me wrong- it is definitely worth having a look at- I just meant that when I saw that...
by dean
Wed Sep 03, 2008 6:53 pm
Forum: Art and Culture
Topic: Rm 22.
Replies: 3
Views: 2027

Rm 22.

Hello, I was in England- with some students in August- staying in a lovely neck of the woods- Lowestoft- not exactly at the ends of the earth- but nevertheless the most easterly point in England. Anyway, we went to several interesting spots- Colchester- the oldest town in Britain- where there was an...
by dean
Thu Aug 07, 2008 1:24 pm
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: Alexander and the desert
Replies: 3
Views: 2284

Alexander and the desert

Hello, one film that I had nevergot round to watching was the English Patient- at the end of the film the main character has to walk several days through the desert, which got me thinking about the desert and Alexander- namely Siwa and the Makran The man in the film has to walk 3 days in the deserta...
by dean
Wed Jul 16, 2008 11:23 pm
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: Alexander and ethics
Replies: 43
Views: 16807

Hello, Alexander and ethics? I think the same as pretty much everyone else- Alexander saw fighting and killing as part of life- It is of course disputable that Alexander's "moral code" had much more to do with Homer's Iliad- nothing greater than to die on the battlefield or something along...
by dean
Thu Jul 10, 2008 2:08 pm
Forum: 'Off-topic' forum
Topic: Just a bit of fun
Replies: 7
Views: 3542

hello, There was a man who came from the East, who was given nothing but grief, from a boy by the name of Alexander but sometimes known as Iskander. Two times did they fight for the prize of great Asia broad and wide, But Alexander won the day and Darius did run away, as fast as his long longs could...
by dean
Fri Jun 13, 2008 11:49 pm
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: Alexander and his mind
Replies: 155
Views: 49515

Hello, Iam not sure, but I think that Philip, in the end, showed great confidence in Alexander. I am also sure and of course it is simply a personal belief, that Philip had a "feeling" about Alexander. Something that made him think that there couldn't be any man better for the job and thus...