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There are not many exceptions, I think, that as a rule, both the Macedonians and Persians left surrendering opponents alive; it is only after they revolted, that Persian and Macedonian kings were merciless.Jona

Picking up a clue from Kenny: let's suppose that we design our own computer game about Alexander. What would that be like?Personally, I think that conquering the world has already been done too often (I liked the Alexander scenario of Civilization II, how many centuries ago?). But playing an officer...

I agree that posting the link once is indeed sufficient. There's nothing wrong with romance, but posting multiple threads about the same subject is a bit exaggerated.Jona

You cut the ground from under my feet. Guderian and Rommel are the obvious parallels indeed. Of course this does not mean that I endorse the political system they supported.I add Stalin: there's the personality cult and the ideology of "brotherhood of man" (or communist countries).Jona

A cono is the "horn" in which ice cream is served. The other one has something to do with female anatomy.Jona

Actually, perhaps Homer himself is the best evidence that it was widely believed that Achilles and Patroclus were lovers. The line in Book IX lies so much stress on the fact that the two men slept apart. It is as if Homer wants to be very clear that they were not lovers - which proves that this was ...

The reconstructions in the Oliver Stone movie were not bad at all:http://www.alexander-the-great.co.uk/pr ... cs.htmGood luck!Jona

I ought to have known this. It's too many years ago that I read the Symposium. Thanks!Jona

As a rule of the thumb, I believe that one should be suspicious of information that can be found in only one source. In my view, the first chapters of Plutarch are not very useful, especially as he is quoting from at least one fake source (the letters).Jona

It sounds very plausible, and I certainly believe you, but I am just wondering which sources are the evidence?Jona

I have put online two Babylonian documents on the Hellenistic chronology of Babylon: the so-called Babylonian King List and the Uruk King List. They don't offer very special information (most of it has already found its way to handbooks), but the Uruk King List mentions a mysterious, otherwise unkno...

The museum and Vergina are just great. Don't forget to visit the Nymphaeum of Mi+½za, where Aristotle teached Alexander. If you can rent a car, try visiting Kastoria in the west, and get an impression of the mountain area.J

You can see pictures of the remains of the "Wall of Alexander" (which is behind these stories) at http://www.livius.org/a/iran/wall/alexander.html .It is, perhaps, interesting to note that recently, Iranian archaeologists have established that the first building phase of the wall, which ha...

Which reminds me of a visit to Seville and the moment I ordered a "co+¦o" instead of a "cono"...Jona

One of the horror stories from the Macedonian march through the Gedrosian desert is that the soldiers once -somewhere beyond Pasni- camped on a place that looked safe, but that during the night, when no one expected it, water came down from the mountains and washed away tents and weapons.Perhaps it ...