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by bessusww
Wed Apr 06, 2011 1:04 pm
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: Tyre siege.
Replies: 30
Views: 9872

Re: Tyre siege.

Spitamenese Marcus Of carse a scape goat thats worked very well ans Alexanders legend prospers. Im sure he needed to turn back and that the Soldiers mutiny forced him what a get out of jail card that was. He did stop at Beas but he conquest went on all the was down the Indus to the delta.And the Mak...
by bessusww
Tue Apr 05, 2011 10:43 pm
Forum: Comments, help, suggestions etc
Topic: alexander map, suggestions and help.
Replies: 9
Views: 14111

Re: alexander map, suggestions and help.

Good idea Marcus If you actually fing a Tomb of Achilles ill add it to my collection of Rocking Horse Manure. Not Troy as Im pretty sure it was a Strategic jump of point in those Ancient days and would wager the Greeks had an interest in the place,,,Not for a pretty girl I would add...But it was rea...
by bessusww
Tue Apr 05, 2011 10:34 pm
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: Tyre siege.
Replies: 30
Views: 9872

Re: Tyre siege.

Sorry for any typo errors and mistakes Im not as eloquent with keyboards and spelling as Im sure mosth Pothonians are
by bessusww
Tue Apr 05, 2011 10:31 pm
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: Tyre siege.
Replies: 30
Views: 9872

Re: Tyre siege.

Thanks for all the feedback with these two sieges...Im one on the readers Following Persepolis the Alexander story crosses over..Turnsback on itself and basically as a military enerprise loses quite a lot of its momentum. Upto Gaugamela I would say it was strategically straight foreward..Open terrai...
by bessusww
Tue Apr 05, 2011 8:03 am
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: Tyre siege.
Replies: 30
Views: 9872

Re: Tyre siege.

Spitamenese Hi, think any thing of a stone structure only would remain...I think of the srtucture made tobridge the forge to get to the gap to the sogdian Rock...Alas a make shift structure made from wood and timber surely gone by now. Also the statues left at beas before he returned.If they were ca...
by bessusww
Mon Apr 04, 2011 10:52 pm
Forum: Comments, help, suggestions etc
Topic: alexander map, suggestions and help.
Replies: 9
Views: 14111

Re: alexander map, suggestions and help.

Spitamenese I think your idea is fantastic...I think the wide knowledge and experise in this forum as a whole is great...And do think that most are more accurate with readings...Detail and names than I care to admit...I just feel we come to seperate opinions. I think your idea with maps would be gre...
by bessusww
Mon Apr 04, 2011 10:41 pm
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: Tyre siege.
Replies: 30
Views: 9872

Re: Tyre siege.

To but in...What ive seen and read the mole is more visible from the Air..As a lot of things archeolococly are difficult to spot from ground level. I would say the mole ife excavated would be full of Evidence as readings suggest that parts of the Old city were torn down to make the mole..Plus all ty...
by bessusww
Fri Apr 01, 2011 12:18 pm
Forum: Art and Culture
Topic: Maybe Alexander Died in The Garden Of Eden
Replies: 11
Views: 4966

Re: Maybe Alexander Died in The Garden Of Eden

Spitamenese Im pretty sure it was a stalling tactic and Im pretty sure it was the tip of the Iceberg...Its been claimed when Alexander returned he went sadistic and MEglamanic .Thar he executed many many Rulers And Satraps he had left in control whilst he was away...Many Scholars point out that it w...
by bessusww
Fri Apr 01, 2011 12:14 am
Forum: Art and Culture
Topic: Maybe Alexander Died in The Garden Of Eden
Replies: 11
Views: 4966

Re: Maybe Alexander Died in The Garden Of Eden

Well its fare to say its been said the Gardens were among the other wonders of the Ancient World as was the Statue of Rhodes. I think the Gardens were real any why not...The Babylonians had thewealth and creativity to do so and see no reason why the following Persians wouldnt maintain the gardens. A...
by bessusww
Wed Mar 30, 2011 11:12 am
Forum: Art and Culture
Topic: Maybe Alexander Died in The Garden Of Eden
Replies: 11
Views: 4966

Re: Maybe Alexander Died in The Garden Of Eden

Thanks Spitamenese I know I got a little carried away with the programe as Alexander foot notes keep Cropping up. City Gardens.Euphrates,Tyre etc,,As you say having read the sources the gardens must have been great,According to the programe the Gardens were dated around 1500 BC and that would be abo...
by bessusww
Tue Mar 29, 2011 10:42 pm
Forum: Book reviews
Topic: Itinerarium Alexandri
Replies: 40
Views: 15953

Re: Itinerarium Alexandri

sorry marcus

but theres no evidence hes burried there...only what the vatican has said...till we get proof then its just a guy in a wooly suite proving theres a yeti in the wilds
by bessusww
Tue Mar 29, 2011 10:37 pm
Forum: Art and Culture
Topic: Maybe Alexander Died in The Garden Of Eden
Replies: 11
Views: 4966

Maybe Alexander Died in The Garden Of Eden

Sorry to Pothonians. I keep refering to BBC history and Archiological Programes...Today was a programe looking at Genesis and Adam and Eve. I looked at it with the viewpoint of Sceptic...Then things started been sad that I could draw to Alexander. The theory was this Biblical Scholar believed the st...
by bessusww
Tue Mar 29, 2011 10:24 pm
Forum: 'Off-topic' forum
Topic: Whats In a Name
Replies: 2
Views: 1330

Re: Whats In a Name

Definately Right Marcus In today and modern history its not at all relative to Alexander...But the heritage is very much so...In and around the days of Philip and Alexander...The Modern stated that were Yugoslavia we actually Thrace...I just found the article on the news interesting in that peoples ...
by bessusww
Tue Mar 29, 2011 1:58 pm
Forum: 'Off-topic' forum
Topic: Whats In a Name
Replies: 2
Views: 1330

Whats In a Name

Ive just viewd a bbc news programe today and a Tilte was Whats in a name? I cant say what the item was as its taboo here but it had to do withPolitics and fighting over a name. Its one of the barred subjects in this forum and would ask if anyone knows of an Alexander related site that can discuss th...
by bessusww
Tue Mar 29, 2011 1:55 pm
Forum: Book reviews
Topic: Itinerarium Alexandri
Replies: 40
Views: 15953

Re: Itinerarium Alexandri

AgesiliI quite agree...As stated the Christians must have been like Al Quida to the Americans .. The Christians were blamed for the fire of Rome and as stated the Romans were pretty deep with punishment against those who upset Rome. Carthage was reduced to Rubble ans Spartacus men were Crucified alo...