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When it comes to amazingly insignificant details I'm the man to see. But when it comes to things like say... SPARTA collaborating with PERSIA! My mind draws a blank. (Can I blame selective memory loss on PTSD too?) :) When it comes to Spartan / Persian relations there is an entire history of "...

Did Philip ever actually claim Alexander to be his heir or was Alexander just the best fit at the time of Philips death? Nikas, Dialogues of the Dead! I just ordered it a few days ago and will have it any time now. Glad to know Philip and Alexander are in there. "Dialogues of the Dead"...s...

And there is absolutely no time in the original post where I was stating Alexander to be better than Philip. And I do not see how you even inturpreted it that way. Simply by virtue of your expressed opinion on the matter - which you've made plain. For example: I don't imagine we would be reading to...

Did Alexander visit Heinrich Schliemanns(incorrect spelling) city of Troy? Or was it probably just an area said by locals to be where Troy once stood? I could see local people claiming an area was Troy just as a 'themepark' style moneymaker situation. "Oh sure, we know where Troy is, give us t...

The Harvard University Center for Hellenic Studies had a colloquium a few years ago and their online journal for this event includes the following article - "Jonathan S. Burgess, The Homerizon: Conceptual Interrogations in Homeric Studies, Tumuli of Achilles, http://chs.harvard.edu/publication...

Did Alexander visit Heinrich Schliemanns(incorrect spelling) city of Troy? Or was it probably just an area said by locals to be where Troy once stood? I could see local people claiming an area was Troy just as a 'themepark' style moneymaker situation. "Oh sure, we know where Troy is, give us t...

Did Alexander visit Heinrich Schliemanns(incorrect spelling) city of Troy? Or was it probably just an area said by locals to be where Troy once stood? I could see local people claiming an area was Troy just as a 'themepark' style moneymaker situation. "Oh sure, we know where Troy is, give us tw...

Well, Paralus. I resorted to looking up the word 'remakable'. it has 'noteworthy' and 'worth mentioning'. But also has 'unique' and 'without equal'. So as it has been made very clear, what he did was not 'unique', but in my opinion, I do believe it to be 'worth mentioning' and 'noteworthy'. Like I ...

Well, Paralus. I resorted to looking up the word 'remarkable'. it has 'noteworthy' and 'worth mentioning'. But also has 'unique' and 'without equal'. So as it has been made very clear, what he did was not 'unique', but in my opinion, I do believe it to be 'worth mentioning' and 'noteworthy'. Like I...

Well, Paralus. I resorted to looking up the word 'remakable'. it has 'noteworthy' and 'worth mentioning'. But also has 'unique' and 'without equal'. So as it has been made very clear, what he did was not 'unique', but in my opinion, I do believe it to be 'worth mentioning' and 'noteworthy'. Like I s...

And again, I will disagree. I believe a king to be leading from the front to be remarkable. It clearly was not remarkable in Alexander's own time and in the times of Marcus' examples. In Alexander's time (both before and following) it was normal and expected. Had Alexander "commanded from safe...

Well normally kings would be very far from any kind of chance for physical harm. Alexander is one of the few commanders in history to lead his army from the front. I do not see how that would be considered anything less than remarkable. He led by example. That is one of the reasons why his men foll...

And again, I will disagree. I believe a king to be leading from the front to be remarkable. As marcus points out, just in england alone, there were many. It contradicts my original statement but I've never been one to not admit when my words were incorrect. And at that time they definately were. I h...

Well normally kings would be very far from any kind of chance for physical harm. Alexander is one of the few commanders in history to lead his army from the front. I do not see how that would be considered anything less than remarkable. He led by example. That is one of the reasons why his men foll...

There is absolutely nothing remarkable about Alexander being wounded "while fighting in the ranks as a KING" (your emphasis) and I utterly fail to understand why you would think so. Please excuse me for answering a question with a question (though I am not the first) , but why should the ...