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- Sun Jul 22, 2007 6:06 am
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Alexander's mother tongue
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3534
- Sun Jul 22, 2007 5:49 am
- Forum: Art and Culture
- Topic: Alexander's physical appearence
- Replies: 37
- Views: 25360
- Sun Jul 22, 2007 5:22 am
- Forum: Alexander's contemporaries
- Topic: Roxane
- Replies: 23
- Views: 9888
Not at all Vergina Sun. Your ideas are definitely worth considering. That article however... for me... from a scientific point of view...made absolutely no sense... I read a lot of anthropology/genetics/evolution papers in my line of work (genetics), but this one was kinda beyond me. It didn't seem ...
- Fri Jul 20, 2007 8:49 am
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Alexander's Death
- Replies: 14
- Views: 4497
I had read some where that Aristotle was fearing for his life as his nephew had been executed by orders from Alexander or one of his generals and he may well have been in danger too. Not convinced by that one. Aristotle was sending Alexander and Hephaistion letters. Alexander was sending scientific...
- Fri Jul 20, 2007 8:29 am
- Forum: Art and Culture
- Topic: Sex, power and punishment
- Replies: 64
- Views: 22621
i said in an earlier post that Alexander didnt have Cyrus at the same level as Achillees. Not that he didnt admire him. And i also said that the Greeks generally, and especially these that lived at the era of the Persian wars, and fought in them, didnt think much of any Persian. OK, let's come to a...
- Wed Jul 18, 2007 10:55 am
- Forum: Art and Culture
- Topic: Sex, power and punishment
- Replies: 64
- Views: 22621
Semiramis, where should i start with your post? Ok, surely the Greeks had influences from neighboring civilizations. But all the things that you mentioned, from the Greek alphabet coming from the Phoenician one, to the Greek gods being borrowed by the Egyptians, are specculations or have been prove...
- Wed Jul 18, 2007 5:57 am
- Forum: Art and Culture
- Topic: Sex, power and punishment
- Replies: 64
- Views: 22621
I'd need to check what Curtius actually says, but I don't recall that it is even implied that the Babylonian women were raped - more that Babylon was a party town where pretty much anything went ... and that it had been for centuries. Perhaps there is an implication that the women were forced, but ...
- Tue Jul 17, 2007 2:12 pm
- Forum: Art and Culture
- Topic: Sex, power and punishment
- Replies: 64
- Views: 22621
I keep telling myself (perhaps naively) that Alexander didn't actually enjoy the killings. That war was only a means to an end. That if he had time, he would've done more constructive things - like building and creating trade ties. That he needed to set examples. That the actions of his army in Baby...
- Tue Jul 17, 2007 2:04 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Is this Alexander?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 5845
- Tue Jul 17, 2007 1:50 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Alexander's Death
- Replies: 14
- Views: 4497
While poisoning was a popular story once (with Cassander, the mule's hoof, and all), it's somewhat been concluded that no poison known at the time would have caused such a high, continuous fever, and slow death. I'm wondering though, if somebody got hold of a poison that could kill people slowly an...
- Tue Jul 17, 2007 2:58 am
- Forum: Art and Culture
- Topic: Sex, power and punishment
- Replies: 64
- Views: 22621
How could they have a Persian as an idol, since they defeated the Persians and their huge armies numerous times, and drove them back? Of course you could say that Cyrus was maybe better than Xexes and Darius, but for the Greeks he was just a Persian. I see where you're coming from but I'm not sure ...
- Tue Jul 17, 2007 2:50 am
- Forum: Art and Culture
- Topic: Sex, power and punishment
- Replies: 64
- Views: 22621
I know what you mean. To me, sometimes he seems unusually magnanimous for a conquerer. Other times he's just another brutal conquerer. Like his many of the actions in India. Or the killing fest he went on to soothe himself after Hephaistion's death. The important point to make is that all conquest i...
- Tue Jul 17, 2007 2:07 am
- Forum: Art and Culture
- Topic: Sex, power and punishment
- Replies: 64
- Views: 22621
- Mon Jul 16, 2007 6:34 am
- Forum: Book reviews
- Topic: Most Comprehensive Book
- Replies: 38
- Views: 12682
- Mon Jul 16, 2007 3:19 am
- Forum: Book reviews
- Topic: Most Comprehensive Book
- Replies: 38
- Views: 12682