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- Fri Oct 05, 2007 1:37 am
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Reasons why Alexander was great?
- Replies: 180
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But Alexander's central policy with Persia was not destruction but co-optation. Same empire, under new management -- that's why he dressed like what they knew as a Great King. He rehired all the bureaucracy, co-opted people such as Oxyartes, Mazaios, Nabarzanes etc etc etc., brought Persians into th...
- Wed Oct 03, 2007 2:39 am
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Alexander the Great museum to be created
- Replies: 33
- Views: 12541
- Wed Oct 03, 2007 1:48 am
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Alexander the Great museum to be created
- Replies: 33
- Views: 12541
Vergina Sun, thanks for the yahoo link. Thanks also for your perspective as a young person. Some of us think we're all a bunch of old fogies on here. Nice to find out that's not true! :wink: The schools here concentrate on WWI and WWII and barely mention Vietnam or Desert Storm. Theseus, if you have...
- Mon Oct 01, 2007 3:18 am
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Reasons why Alexander was great?
- Replies: 180
- Views: 69211
I’ve argued this before to some degree – IMO it would have been undesirable on Alexander's part to forbid the Macedonian army to rape. He needed his army to be happy and his army desired women. And captive women, even if they end up as “partners,” are initially subjected to rape. It's not important...
- Mon Oct 01, 2007 1:19 am
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Alexander the Great museum to be created
- Replies: 33
- Views: 12541
- Fri Sep 28, 2007 12:56 am
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Reasons why Alexander was great?
- Replies: 180
- Views: 69211
- Fri Sep 28, 2007 12:43 am
- Forum: Art and Culture
- Topic: Ancient Babylonians invented the waterbed!
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1922
Ancient Babylonians invented the waterbed!
No really -- this one's sourced. The manner, however, of the production of naphtha admits of a diversity of opinion... of whether this liquid substance that feeds the flame does not rather proceed from a soil that is unctuous and productive of fire, as that of the province of Babylon is, where the g...
- Thu Sep 27, 2007 11:03 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Reasons why Alexander was great?
- Replies: 180
- Views: 69211
I agree with Derek, that Alexander's atrocities were generally calculated. Be kind to those who surrender, belligerent to those who fight and merciless to those who pretend to surrender and then fight was his standard operating procedure, he followed it consistently, and it was very effective. I'd l...
- Wed Sep 26, 2007 2:00 am
- Forum: Alexander the Great in the Media
- Topic: DVD: "Alexander Revisited: The Final Cut"
- Replies: 84
- Views: 37097
Some more interesting reviews here (including some quite thoughtful ones.)
- Tue Sep 25, 2007 2:18 am
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Reasons why Alexander was great?
- Replies: 180
- Views: 69211
I hope you will not label me a pollyanna, Paralus, for noting that it did not become routine for Alexander to slaughter mercenaries, Greek or otherwise, as Bosworth implies. Quoting from a footnote by Hamilton in the de Selincourt (Penguin) translation of Arrian, emphasis added: This massacre was a ...
- Mon Sep 24, 2007 11:43 pm
- Forum: Alexander the Great in the Media
- Topic: 300
- Replies: 97
- Views: 45262
- Mon Sep 24, 2007 7:30 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Reasons why Alexander was great?
- Replies: 180
- Views: 69211
Hi Marcus, et al: If we remove Alexander as a conspirator in his death, though, the main difference between the two would have been what each had to endure in his youth. Phillip gained his throne over his own kin. Alexander may have quarreled with his father, but if he did not murder him or assist i...
- Mon Sep 24, 2007 5:54 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Reasons why Alexander was great?
- Replies: 180
- Views: 69211
Just a quick answer to one small aspect of your post, Phoebus: Phillip gained his throne over his own kin. Put this way, it sounds like he knocked off his father or some number of brothers or the like who were in line before him. That wasn't the case at all -- his father, Amyntas II, died of natural...
- Fri Sep 21, 2007 12:23 pm
- Forum: Art and Culture
- Topic: Bathing in saffron
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5809
Hi Amyntoros (et al): If it had appeared to be just on the Internet, and wasn't sourced from an actual book that purports to have some scholarly rigor, I'd never have started this thread. Reading the excerpt, I think I can leave aside thoughts of scholarly rigor. I read somewhere else, a wiki on the...
- Thu Sep 20, 2007 12:50 am
- Forum: Art and Culture
- Topic: Bathing in saffron
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5809
Bathing in saffron
Hi everyone: On a whim tonight I made saffron shrimp for dinner, and afterwards, curious, went a-googling about the spice. On the history of saffron wiki, I found: Later, Persian saffron was heavily used by Alexander the Great and his forces during their Asian campaigns. They mixed saffron into teas...