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- Sun Oct 13, 2002 12:02 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Q: Motivation for Alexander to Invade Persian Empire?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 9573
Re: Q: Motivation for Alexander to Invade Persian Empire?
Hi, welcome to the forum. The previous replies to your question seem to answer it perfectly well but I'd like to add a few thoughts of my own. It is true that Philip had his sights on Asia. In the Attalos incident at Philip's disasterous wedding ceremony- Alexander points out hilariously "there...
- Sun Oct 13, 2002 11:43 am
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Tocharians in Bactria?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2171
Tocharians in Bactria?
Hi, first- it is so nice to be once again writing on this splendid forum! Second, after Alexander's death and things "went to pot" someone talked of the Greeks left behind in Bactria. Now I must confess my knowledge about Alexander is limited principally to the living years not the afterma...
- Sun Oct 13, 2002 10:25 am
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Very worrying...
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2466
Re: Very worrying...
Hi, I was just thinking the same thing a couple of days ago. Alexander's life packed a massive punch to put it very lightly. I was thinking that you could honestly make a decent film, Ridley Scott style (3-4-hrs) about any of Alexander's great battles and still have plently to talk about. So it is r...
- Sun Oct 13, 2002 10:13 am
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Was alexander greek or what?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3659
Re: David Bowie eyes
Hi Karl, it is always instructive and intersting to read your comments! Well, since the site went down for that week I haven't been able to catch up on what was going on. I was beginning to think that in the Canary Islands we had lost the privilige of reading from this site. Anyway to resume dialogu...
- Sat Oct 12, 2002 12:57 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Very worrying...
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2466
Re: Very worrying...
Hi, good question, what accent will Leonardo Di Caprio use? Hm, Californian, New York, which area of America do you think? Dean.
- Sat Oct 12, 2002 9:16 am
- Forum: Comments, help, suggestions etc
- Topic: pothos.co.uk availability
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4219
Re: pothos.co.uk availability
Hi mate, I love this site- and am really happy it is back, all the best Dean!
- Mon Sep 30, 2002 3:48 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Cup of Honour
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3160
Cup of Honour
Hi, recently I recently read about the condition of Alexander in his last days in Babylon. The article stated that shortly before his death he had drunk a "cup of honour". According to the article this famous cup could contain "a lot of wine"(several litres), which Alex drank off...
- Mon Sep 16, 2002 5:59 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Personality test.
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3513
Re: Spare Alexander from Freud
Hi Karen, I too would not be too delighted to have Freud's breakdown of Alex's psyche (apart from it taking about a hundred years on the couch anyway). Alex's youth, which counts for two thirds of his life are practically unaccounted for in comparison to the last ten years and this is a real shame f...
- Mon Sep 16, 2002 5:59 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Personality test.
- Replies: 21
- Views: 11507
Re: Spare Alexander from Freud
Hi Karen, I too would not be too delighted to have Freud's breakdown of Alex's psyche (apart from it taking about a hundred years on the couch anyway). Alex's youth, which counts for two thirds of his life are practically unaccounted for in comparison to the last ten years and this is a real shame f...
- Sun Sep 15, 2002 12:09 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Personality test.
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3513
Re: New section?
Hi Nick, How are you? I was very pleased to read your suggestion that maybe a part of this site could supply more information. I don't believe that Alexander was simply a product of his fate- his nature was unique because he rose above it at every step of the way and for that reason I think further ...
- Sun Sep 15, 2002 12:09 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Personality test.
- Replies: 21
- Views: 11507
Re: New section?
Hi Nick, How are you? I was very pleased to read your suggestion that maybe a part of this site could supply more information. I don't believe that Alexander was simply a product of his fate- his nature was unique because he rose above it at every step of the way and for that reason I think further ...
- Sun Sep 15, 2002 11:41 am
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Personality test.
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3513
Re: Personality test. (whole thing)
Hello Linda, I have just got back from hols so have been away from the computer for a few days but was intrigued by your message. In the first few lines you say that you think that the whole analysis quoted is a load of bo****** but you don't say why.If you have a mo plse write to explain. I've read...
- Sun Sep 15, 2002 11:41 am
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Personality test.
- Replies: 21
- Views: 11507
Re: Personality test. (whole thing)
Hello Linda, I have just got back from hols so have been away from the computer for a few days but was intrigued by your message. In the first few lines you say that you think that the whole analysis quoted is a load of bo****** but you don't say why.If you have a mo plse write to explain. I've read...
- Mon Sep 09, 2002 12:51 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Personality test.
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3513
Personality test.
Hi everybody, I am curious about most aspects of Alexander's life- but most especially his personality. I have got up to the battle of Guagmela in "The Nature Of Alexandr+¬" by Renault and still haven't been enlightened as to the real mechanisms at work. I do agree though with her idea tha...
- Mon Sep 09, 2002 12:51 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Personality test.
- Replies: 21
- Views: 11507
Personality test.
Hi everybody, I am curious about most aspects of Alexander's life- but most especially his personality. I have got up to the battle of Guagmela in "The Nature Of Alexandr+¬" by Renault and still haven't been enlightened as to the real mechanisms at work. I do agree though with her idea tha...