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- Mon Jan 21, 2008 6:49 pm
- Forum: Alexander the Great in the Media
- Topic: Alexander the Great: A Two Part Movie?
- Replies: 37
- Views: 16654
I may not be one to judge, perhaps knowing the story too well to really discern, but I think it actually was coherent and understandable for people with no prior Alexander knowledge -- in the Revisited version. BTW, Oliver Stone has just launched a project about yet another most powerful leader in t...
- Mon Jan 21, 2008 6:05 pm
- Forum: Book reviews
- Topic: Alexander the Great Failure- John D Grainger
- Replies: 76
- Views: 31728
The idea of Alexander as eternal adolescent to me is nothing more than another example of amateur psychologists pretending they can go back in time and put him on the couch. By every actual measurable factor -- successes, promotions, opinions of people around him -- he was mature and responsible far...
- Tue Jan 15, 2008 2:17 pm
- Forum: Alexander the Great in the Media
- Topic: Alexander the Great: A Two Part Movie?
- Replies: 37
- Views: 16654
- Tue Jan 08, 2008 4:34 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Famous Portrayals of Alexander: Ancient or Modern
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2659
I can add six off the top of my head (two ancient, four modern, and one not an author but a movie director): Curtius: Alexander the genius ruined by good fortune Arrian: Alexander the brilliantly pragmatic general Mary Renault: Alexander the passionate, tragic hero Peter Green: Alexander the angry, ...
- Sun Dec 23, 2007 6:12 pm
- Forum: 'Off-topic' forum
- Topic: Happy Christmas
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4564
Christmas Greetings
...and goodwill to our own little Brotherhood of Man (& Woman)
Many happy returns and all the best in 2008,
Karen
- Sun Dec 23, 2007 2:07 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: ALEXANDER THE GREAT - IMPACT OF THE 325 BC TSUNAMI
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4044
This thread got me surfing about tsunamis again (no pun intended). When I wrote that if you're far out at sea, you just go up for a while and then down for a while, it wasn't entirely accurate, as it sounded like you're going a long way up and then a long way down. In deep water, even major tsunamis...
- Fri Dec 21, 2007 3:36 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: ALEXANDER THE GREAT - IMPACT OF THE 325 BC TSUNAMI
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4044
A squirmish is a little fight where you don't feel quite comfortable with what you're doing. But seriously -- it's an interesting premise, but I agree with Marcus in that without a lot more cites, and a detailed laying-out of the logic that supposedly dates the tsunami in Oct/Nov 325, it's not convi...
- Wed Dec 19, 2007 9:11 pm
- Forum: Book reviews
- Topic: The Conquests of Alexander by Waldemar Heckel
- Replies: 43
- Views: 17260
I would note that everyone edits quotes ??? I don't -- I just straight cut and paste, and never remove context that is necessary to accurately represent the person's meaning. If there's a bit missing in the middle I use the academic convention of adding an ellipse. Andrew, it's in writing . On an I...
- Wed Dec 19, 2007 2:26 pm
- Forum: Book reviews
- Topic: The Conquests of Alexander by Waldemar Heckel
- Replies: 43
- Views: 17260
I have to agree with Amyntoros and Paralus, Andrew, that you've done something pretty low here, especially editing a quote to distort a person's words to look more like what you're accusing her of, and casting aspersions on what you thought was her nationality. This is not a suitable level of discou...
- Wed Dec 05, 2007 2:42 pm
- Forum: Book reviews
- Topic: Novel preparation
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3705
- Sun Nov 11, 2007 2:45 pm
- Forum: Art and Culture
- Topic: How much do you know about Macedon? Try this quiz.
- Replies: 16
- Views: 7137
- Fri Nov 02, 2007 4:12 am
- Forum: Alexander's contemporaries
- Topic: Question about Hephaistion’s marriage
- Replies: 26
- Views: 12579
Moffetbaby, I suspect there's a very basic and elemental thing you're misunderstanding about marriage customs among nobility and royalty in ancient times. I think you are thinking of marriage the way we think of it, a romantic coupling formalized into a life partnership. Ancient marriage among nobil...
- Tue Oct 23, 2007 12:20 am
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Alexander's speech at Opis according to Arrian
- Replies: 6
- Views: 7123
- Sun Oct 21, 2007 2:28 pm
- Forum: Alexander's contemporaries
- Topic: A Hephaistion Quiz!
- Replies: 112
- Views: 55250
Perhaps not proof, but very convincing evidence in my mind. You're a smart person, Marcus... ever gone on a date with someone who really has nothing in her head? Would you marry her, and sentence yourself to limiting yourself to talking only about what she understands in all conversations with the c...
- Sat Oct 20, 2007 1:29 am
- Forum: Alexander's contemporaries
- Topic: A Hephaistion Quiz!
- Replies: 112
- Views: 55250
I'd have to check, but I don't think that Heckel has ever intimated that Hephaistion was not very bright. Not particularly well-liked, definitely; not a gifted commander, for sure; but I don't recall H. ever suggesting he was dim. Pardon me -- :oops: -- having checked, I am reminded: it was Peter G...