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- Fri Jul 15, 2011 5:57 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Gedrosian desert!
- Replies: 16
- Views: 9794
Re: Gedrosian desert!
neneh..thank you for the post. I've been on my own perilous expedition the past few days, with the grandkids and I've barely survived. In fact I collapsed on top of my bed yesterday afternoon just waking up a little bit ago. I'll come back to this when I can do it justice. Though I agree with your i...
- Sun Jul 10, 2011 7:58 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Gedrosian desert!
- Replies: 16
- Views: 9794
Re: Gedrosian desert!
Well, I think it was well planned, as far as that could go...the whole Nearchus angle is kind of suspicious, I have wondered if his later career was so lackluster because his part or lack there of in the whole Gedrosian thing. The others, while not publicly blaming him really didn't give him the tim...
- Sun Jul 03, 2011 1:24 am
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: alexanders visit to Troy
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3624
Re: alexanders visit to Troy
Paralus, no...I wasn't referring to Lysimacheia. Lysimachus rebuilt the Temple of Athena, Troy VIII-ish...which again, if memeory serves, parts of it, at least were leveled off by the Romans to create their own version IX or X (no books handy here). But it wasn't just a temple, Lysimachus helped cre...
- Sat Jul 02, 2011 9:22 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: alexanders visit to Troy
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3624
Re: alexanders visit to Troy
Did Alexander visit Heinrich Schliemanns(incorrect spelling) city of Troy? Or was it probably just an area said by locals to be where Troy once stood? I could see local people claiming an area was Troy just as a 'themepark' style moneymaker situation. "Oh sure, we know where Troy is, give us t...
- Sat Jun 11, 2011 4:37 am
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Alexander's tomb and the biggest archaiological concealment.
- Replies: 28
- Views: 10698
Re: Alexander's tomb and the biggest archaiological concealm
Ha! Yeah, that song was definitely a Spinal Tap momentspitamenes wrote: Hopefully I can trump Iron Maidens "Alexander the Great" song. I was rockin in the 80s but even I can't handle that one!
- Fri Jun 10, 2011 9:06 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Alexander's tomb and the biggest archaiological concealment.
- Replies: 28
- Views: 10698
Re: Alexander's tomb and the biggest archaiological concealm
There are worse things than sounding like the Who! :wink: Have you ever listened to Daemonia Nymphe ? Check them out on Youtube. Not sure how accurate, but I think it might give a sense? My musical knowledge is zip..but I do recall reading that Gregorian chants have their roots in Greek music. Possi...
- Fri Jun 10, 2011 8:24 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Alexander's tomb and the biggest archaiological concealment.
- Replies: 28
- Views: 10698
Re: Alexander's tomb and the biggest archaiological concealm
spitamenes, thanks for the offer. My folks are all okay (except for the kids and their schools. Sounds most of the schools were damaged or destroyed.) An earthquake? I grew up with tornadoes, though nothing like this one. Funny thing now is, I'm the only one in my family that has a basement (some ha...
- Fri Jun 10, 2011 2:29 am
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Alexander's tomb and the biggest archaiological concealment.
- Replies: 28
- Views: 10698
Re: Alexander's tomb and the biggest archaiological concealm
Thanks Marcus, those little stories are usually what I end up remembering most in the sources. I think its because a lot of them can really capture the imagination and almost give you a sense of what it was like to be there. Like when the army marched through a field where a certain type of plant o...
- Fri Jun 03, 2011 7:22 am
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Alexander's tomb and the biggest archaiological concealment.
- Replies: 28
- Views: 10698
Re: Alexander's tomb and the biggest archaiological concealm
Oh dear. I'd suggest some judicious editing.
- Sun May 22, 2011 5:20 pm
- Forum: Alexander's contemporaries
- Topic: Artabazus, Parmenion, & Barsine...The Perfect Persian Plant
- Replies: 53
- Views: 22654
Re: Artabazus, Parmenion, & Barsine...The Perfect Persian Pl
Hello all! Very interesting conversation. Just a couple of things to add...Marathos was kind of a co-city with Amrit, it is on the now southern Syrian coastline, above Sidon a bit. I think an island was involved, but I'd have to look that up. Don't know if that makes a difference or not. Secondly, I...
- Thu Feb 10, 2011 9:08 pm
- Forum: Alexander the Great in the Media
- Topic: Ancients Behaving Badly
- Replies: 56
- Views: 23558
Re: Ancients Behaving Badly
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLM_H54oVyQ I could swear I watched this sometime ago....or perhaps it was some other "documentary" that I simply had to turn the channel on, as the eye rolling was causing me physical harm. Anyway, take a gander at the you-tube link above....it's part one. Y...
- Tue Jan 18, 2011 4:52 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Aeschines: Against Timarchus
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5340
Re: Aeschines: Against Timarchus
:lol: :lol: :lol: Er....that was rather blunt and plain spoken watchingcat. I arrived at Pothos this morning to add some links, but read this first. I'll have to come back, though, because I can't stop laughing. Really naughty. Do you talk to your classics prof with that mouth? That said, I agree fo...
- Sun Dec 26, 2010 5:48 pm
- Forum: Book reviews
- Topic: A Weekly Conversation on Alexander
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2970
Re: A Weekly Conversation on Alexander
Part three: http://blogs.forbes.com/booked/2010/12/20/two-historians-talk-alexander-the-great-part-3/ Once the holidays are over (for me that means possibly through the 7th of January...Russian Orthodox (Kodiak style) in the family mix and I am the main cook and bottle washer,decorator etc.) I'll co...
- Sun Dec 19, 2010 4:19 pm
- Forum: Book reviews
- Topic: A Weekly Conversation on Alexander
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2970
A Weekly Conversation on Alexander
http://blogs.forbes.com/booked/2010/12/12/two-great-historians-on-alexander-the-great-part-one/ http://blogs.forbes.com/booked/2010/12/17/two-great-historians-on-alexander-the-great-part-two/ Found this via Rogueclassicism, a multi part conversation between Paul Cartledge and James Romm. In "Fo...
- Thu Nov 25, 2010 4:33 pm
- Forum: Alexander the Great in the Media
- Topic: New Movie - Young Alexander The Great
- Replies: 21
- Views: 10906
Re: New Movie - Young Alexander The Great
Ah....I have a soft spot of "Jason and the Argonauts", which is from the early 60's. I loved it as a kid (when the special effects were pretty awesome for their time). I watched it again recently and it is dated, true, but those armed skeletons rising out of the earth were the best. Which ...