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- Sat Aug 29, 2009 4:49 pm
- Forum: Art and Culture
- Topic: Interesting news - find in Israel
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2575
Re: Interesting news - find in Israel
Hi Fiona, thanks for posting this up. This is interesting. I mean, I can't say that I remember having read that Alexander passed through the town of Dor but on the other hand, I guess if we were to write up a comprehensive list of towns he visited, it would require several pages of text- amazing, gi...
- Sun Aug 02, 2009 12:07 am
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Siwah - so bad
- Replies: 30
- Views: 9642
Re: Siwah - so bad
Hi Dean, I agree, this was an exciting read, a real page-turner. I tell you what, though, when they got to that cave place in the mountains, near the end, I was nearly shouting, 'Stop fighting, for goodness sake! Just look at all this stuff!' I bet you were, too. What wouldn't we give for just one ...
- Fri Jul 31, 2009 8:57 am
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Siwah - so bad
- Replies: 30
- Views: 9642
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
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
- Thu Jul 30, 2009 12:56 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Siwah - so bad
- Replies: 30
- Views: 9642
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...
- Wed Jul 29, 2009 10:14 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Siwah - so bad
- Replies: 30
- Views: 9642
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...
- Sun Nov 30, 2008 12:39 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: A policy of "fusion"?
- Replies: 55
- Views: 20864
- Sun Nov 23, 2008 11:22 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: A policy of "fusion"?
- Replies: 55
- Views: 20864
- Fri Nov 21, 2008 10:46 am
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: A policy of "fusion"?
- Replies: 55
- Views: 20864
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...
- Mon Nov 17, 2008 12:21 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: A policy of "fusion"?
- Replies: 55
- Views: 20864
- Sun Nov 16, 2008 3:52 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: A policy of "fusion"?
- Replies: 55
- Views: 20864
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...
- Sat Nov 15, 2008 10:19 pm
- Forum: Comments, help, suggestions etc
- Topic: How can we improve the main Pothos site?
- Replies: 65
- Views: 25214
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...
- Wed Sep 10, 2008 12:53 pm
- Forum: Art and Culture
- Topic: Rm 22.
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2040
- Wed Sep 03, 2008 6:53 pm
- Forum: Art and Culture
- Topic: Rm 22.
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2040
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...
- Thu Aug 07, 2008 1:24 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Alexander and the desert
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2293
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...
- Wed Jul 16, 2008 11:23 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Alexander and ethics
- Replies: 43
- Views: 16952