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...I noticed that as well about the camp. I'm re-reading Fuller on this battle again. It's hard not to like his account, and I'd be hard pressed to pick a favorite between him, Green, and Hammond. I just picked up Robin Lane Fox's "The Search for Alexander the Great". I noticed that he had...

Do you know the full name of Dodge and his book so I can request it from the library system?

"Personally I think Alexander would've really found the whole deal of filmmaking to his liking"...yeah, until the director shot something unfavorable, then he'd go the way of Callisthenes.

Hello All,I'm taking a poll on the best version of Guagamela...so far, having read Arrian, Diodorus, Plutarch, Nicholas Hammond, Peter Green, J.F.C Fuller, A.B. Bosworth, Victor Davis Hanson, Ulrich Wilcken, Agnes Savill, and Mary Renault. I'm leaning towards Hammond (believe it or not!), with Green...

Is that the same Louis IV who later on presides over France during the 30 years war(1618-1648)? He did well to abstain from conflict until it suited him, but died before the end. I've been hanging around the library too. Lately, I've been trying to finish Heckel's "The Marshalls of Alexander's ...

Pindar the fifth centure Theban poet saw no glory in killing. Ever the realist, he warned that war "was a sweet thing to him who does not know it, but to him who has made trial of it, it is a thing of fear".It is a Curious bit of irony that Alexander would spare his home during the sack of...

...it is probably indicative of the comical measures the ancients used to interpret the soothsayers.

Hello Jan,
The more things change the more they stay the same. I don't know who originally coined that prophetic statement, but the more history you read, the more parallels you will see. Why are you studying Foucquet and Louis IV?later Nicator

Hi John,Great to hear from you! Apologies for the wolf diatribe, it's an old debate between Marcus and I. I'm not familiar with this Plutarch line, what is it in reference to? I did a bit of reading on Dionysus and came across some interesting info on his other reincarnations throughout Greece, Thra...

Hello Marcus,"I still think the poor wolves are greatly misunderstood creatures..."I don't think they are misunderstood, only struggling with their vanishing habitat. We need wolves to balance our eco-system. If you remove all the natural predators then the herds of deer and other natural ...

Hello Chris and Marcus,I gave up gambling with my day-trading business, so sorryGǪMarcus, ItGÇÖs kind of complicated, and short of re-writing the entire section, IGÇÖll try to summarize. Beginning in the second chapter entitled GÇ£The HereticsGÇ¥ (you can probably see where this is going) The field...

Hello All, I've been researching heavily from many different books as of late in the almost vain attempt to finish my epoch poem on ATG. I needed a break from the whole thing for a bit, so I went to a movie and while waiting for the theatre to open I stopped in a second hand store. Eventually, I fou...

Hello all,Much time has passed since the great one made his world changing tour. Many authors have had their say, and many more will before the century is over. Some of us will write great books. Some of us will change the perception of Alexander and his time. We have a responsibility to history. Wh...

Hello Yiannis, My own relatives are all dark haired and dark eyed. Therefore, I was taken aback a bit when I went to Greece and saw so many blonde haired blue eyed Greeks running around. It just sort of totally crushed my earlier conceptions of what the Greeks looked like. I am personally dark brown...