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Thanks Stathis, you are a gentleman.

Warmly,
Karen

Hi Efstathios: I'll give you the benefit of the doubt that you might not have intended said tone, because English is not your first language, so subtleties of tone escape you. Let me suggest that you stay away from stereotypes, though, as they are always insulting. Suggest if you're citing a popular...

Perhaps you might persuade 4000 Canadian "barbaroi" to incontinemtly flee before your charge? Joking.....jokiing....ok, maybe just a little serious. NO WAY, eh! We'd just whack ya with our hockey sticks. But seriously, Rock... I LOVE those pictures. The students look like they're having s...

Since we dont know exactly how they yelled the "alalalalaai", i suggest to do it in a manner that is not like indians yelling to the great manitu. Efstathios: 1) The people to whom you are referring are not Indians, never were Indians, and are no longer referred to by that term in polite ...

Rocktupac, I am a firm believer in the idea that if more Alexander scholars hauled themselves out of their ivory tower offices, got into the fresh air and actually tried out physically, with their own hands, the things they write about (within the bounds of legality and reason, of course), they'd un...

AO, you're in Canada right? (Where? I'm in Huntsville -- 2 1/2 hours roughly north of Toronto) What I wonder is how much people outside of Canada have heard of Terry Fox. I assumed that no one had, but then I read somewhere that there are Terry Fox runs in 60 countries. I didn't think the internatio...

Hi Fiona et al: I am glad you have your own strategy for coping with this in your novel. (Not going to ask what it is, but I hope it works out for you!) Thank you. Me too. :shock: I'm tempted to write more about it here, but I won't, not so much out of secrecy, but to avoid hijacking the thread with...

Now Terry Fox lived recently, so we have lots of information about him, including his own words. And, in my opinion anyway, some of the keys to greatness can be found in them. Emphases mine: “I loved it,” Terry said. “I enjoyed myself so much and that was what other people couldn't realize. They tho...

Some years ago, innovative writers doing an ad for an Alexander thing -- Discovery Channel, I think -- shot an ice hockey player by the name of Wayne Gretzky giving his definition of "great." The idea was to get someone great to define great, since Gretzky, or "The Great One" as ...

Morning Phoebus, et al: My point is that it featured a very simplistic, predictable story. Please don't tell me that, by the time Maximus was weeping over the corpses of his wife and son, you didn't know Commodus was going to suffer a grisly death at the hands of his general-turned-gladiator? I neve...

Thank you all. Looks like I am indeed going to have to be creative. Oh well.

Gratefully,
Karen

Okay, I have to answer this first: Gladiator -- not much of a story? Guy has his entire family killed and his own life destroyed, and slowly works himself back, aiming all the way for revenge? That's a heck of a story, even if you can predict the end (anything but the predictable ending is unbearabl...

What evidence is availble indicates that the pages, after eighteen or so when they had "filled-out", were placed into the agema of the Hypaspists: the Royal Hypaspists. Here they did their "agoge" and learned the ropes of the infantry that they might well command (Coenus, Perdic...

Harking back to a couple of previous posts: I think that Stone tried to explore the inner Alexander because, in terms of artistic considerations, that has to be the way to go with Alexander the Great. Why? Because if you concentrate on the story of his campaign, think of how it goes. He wins. He mar...

Hi Fiona: I don't think it's known. Diodorus doesn't mention it, and neither does Aristotle. Rats... means I'll have to make up a name so as to distinguish the two Pausanias's in that paragraph (yes it's for the novel). And I don't really like doing that. Unless someone else can tell me? I haven't h...