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I think that, ultimately, Cleitus was right, Alexander's conquest could not have been done without Phillip starting him out. I think Cleitus was right and you are right as well, but that is not all the truth. All of us have a debit to our parents but what we achieve its not their success but it´s o...

Ok Paralus you rule. After your fantastic replay I hardly can take a few and irrelevant items to answer. I believe you are an Athenian politician Yauna You catch me, I should have been a Demostenes disciple. I hope this subject won´t awake my dear Philippus from his tomb because he´d get lost in a m...

I have no doubt that spartans were the best hoplite in all Greece for a long time,and they won the peloponnesian war, that´s a fact.What I want to defend is that somehow their superiority is overrated. Besides this, they were very slow, reluctant to move, and short minded taking decisions, e.g. an s...

Pericles summed it up at the outset of the war: do not engage them. He would know having been one of a few who may well have engaged a Spartan army of inferior numbers at Tanagara in central Greece in about 457. The Athenians marched “in full force” and numbered 14,000 (including 1,000 Argives and ...

Callisto Maybe your right. I actually am inaccurate. But what I really wanted to say is that the 300 Spartans were not who defeated Xerxes, these were Atheneans in Salamis and later, but all credits go to Spartans. History is not just with the braves sometimes!. However I think that your statements ...

MAKES U MAYBE THINK ANY gREEK mACEDONIAN cOMMANDER WITH aLEXANDERS ARMY COULD IN ACTUAL FACT HAVE Taken out the Persian Empire? No I don´t think so. Another greek general would have conquer for sure the western part of Persian empire, I mean Ionia, Anatolia, Bitinia, etc and would have stopped ther...

It´s incredible that we think of Sparta as the greek city that stopped Persia conquering west, isn´t it? Athens fighted almost alone against Darius I in Marathon, and was the main force in Salamis and Platae. Despite of this almost all people think that was Sparta because of the famous and useless b...

In the end we did not make it to Pella and Vergina in Macedonia, making it only as far north as Meteora. Sorry to hear that. I´ve been in Hellas three times and enjoyed the most "Macedonia". Pella, Vergina, Chalkidiki, Dion ..... oh dear I was in front of Philippus bones in Saloniki and h...

What makes water? The hydrogen or the oxygen? It is like asking for a soccer team: Offence or Defence? Maybe I have explained the question bad. Of course ATG needed infantry and cavalry, but maybe one of them made a big difference. Surely if I ask you which save UK in WWII aircraft or navy, you wil...

Yesterday I was talking to a friend about this.... I told him it was the phalanx because I believe it was Greek war tech which won, the one Philip learned in Tebas and improved a lot. Of course ATG, the great commander, was necessary but the undergrounds were there. Maybe I believe this because I´m ...

Hi Smitty

I can´t believe you didn´t find anything good in this film, Anthony Hopkins-Ptolemy, Gaugamela,even the start ....... Sure is not your best watched film or your ATG but I only asked for a scene.

Many words have been said in pothos about this film but I feel that not very much of them were positive. So I think it´s time to say something this way and can be the scene of the film that you preferred. Mine is the ATG entrance in Babylonia because looks to me very near to what ATG lived that day....

I thought all greek cities were ruled by Macedonian kingdom. I do´nt know if the greeks of Italy where free by the time.

Errors in geography: The "mirror image" map that Ptolemy refers to shows Italy as being part of the Empire. This was never the case. Val I think this one is not an error South Italy was hellenic and in fact was one of the most powerfull economies in western lands. Think of Siracusa that e...

Hi Efstathios That ATG was a cold commander is my personal thought. How would he have won so many great battles without being so? I think that is necessary this virtue to be a great commander. Writers often describe him very calm and sleeping like a kid before battle. I think that if he had been lik...