pothos.org

I tried to watch Spartacus...it just doesn't grip me I suppose. I loved Rome. I wish they had not so hurriedly canceled it (and it is my understanding that the network realised this too late). I do like that period pieces are getting some traction, though. But in watching The Tudors...I am left with...

Well, I went and looked it up...why, I'm not sure. Boredom? :D http://www.ufoevidence.org/cases/case491.htm It's interesting, seems the first mention they could find was an unsourced claim in 1959. As in, to put it bluntly, making it up. Marcus, about the Kashan Rose, did you come across the Bulgari...

Alexander hated cats...they don't have a subservient bone in their little fluffy bodies. :D Seriously, though, I think often, a whole lot of the goods, like flowers and fruits, etc from the East started heading west because of Alexander. Not that he, or his own army, actually brought the items back ...

Off the top of my head, I think that the Gallica rose and or the Dog rose were native to the region...it isn't as though there weren't local roses before Alexander. I am not really familiar at all with the Kashan Rose. But there may have been some serious rose "travels" during the Ottoman ...

Oh dear, this is exactly why I wanted to delete and against my better judgement didn't. Can we just not get into it at all? ATB One of the things I love about this place is that we can talk about ancient history without the modern hoohaw entering into it. If you can't bring yourself to delete it..h...

Agree...spam, spam, spam...

But as I was drinking my first cup of coffee I saw this and wondered if someone was asking if ATG was balding...was there a new statue with a high forehead? Imagines what he'd look like with a receding hairline...

Fantastic review Fiona.

This has been on my wishlist for a bit...I need to dig into the fun fund (hah...fun is spelled IRS, it is that time of year. ) and get it. Along with a couple of others...

Do you use Amazon? They could really use this review.

Thank you.

It's the History Channel...I've come to realise just how crappy the "history" shows are... Something was on the other night, about the Sphinx maybe? Anyway, the narrator was talking about the Sphinx and he said that the Greeks had never used the sphinx imagery until Alexander came to Egypt...

I really doubt the Lysippos attribution... the face too much resembles later interpretations fo Alexander.... And here is a Heracles said to be a copy of a bronze by Lysippos http://www.utexas.edu/courses/larrymyth/images/hercules1/AA-Herc-Farnese.jpg The proportionality is more aesthetically pleasi...

Oh my goodness.... The author of that article is apparently banned...they wrote the article in 2005 and 2006...there is no way of contacting them and as they provided no cites one has to assume they were winging it with romantic flair...as they say in one of their edit summaries "I believe this...

rbosschart...could you link to the wiki article that says that? I went and looked, but couldn't see it. If I find it I could tell you something more...I know most of the "players" there, and could find out where they got it. Thanks.

*whispering*...for us who are stuck with American football as the national sport and soccer for the kidlets... I can only assume that you are talking about Rugby?

Isn't the Hermes Azara supposed to be based on Lysippos? The face is certainly different than the one here...which does indeed look like the one from Pergamon, only more child-like for lack of a better word. Paralus, I know what you mean about horseback riding, and maybe his short little legs needed...

Thank you amyntoros...I've read the article briefly and will return to it later...guests have been absorbing my time.

I am still stuck with the several feet of snow thingy...at altitudes not known in Europe...

It surely is Alexander, who I have always thought was a very sturdy little fellow...but those thighs! Speed skaters would covet that muscle...