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The cultural continuity is striking. I suppose there needed to be a way for the clergy to make Christianity acceptable and more familiar to the populace and so replaced the gods of Olympus with saints. I've heard that the Italians did the same with the goddess Diana, substituting her with the Virgin...

Artemisia, I have to say, until I read your post about Agio Dimitri, I'd thought I was the only one who noticed the likeness in his many portraits to Alexander. Sometimes, I've even mistaken a picture for Alexander, then on closer inspection, realised it is really a picture of Saint Dimitrios (or Sa...

From what I know kurnigandy, he uses primary sources whenever possible: Arrian, Curtius and Plutarch. He also spent a great deal of time during In the Footsteps talking to locals and trying to get their viewpoint of Alexander to give a more complete or balanced picture. It would be interesting to se...

Hi Derek, I read the short extract of God of War in the link you provided and I must say, it exceeded my expectations. :D I would be interested to read more and may follow it up on Amazon. I'm assuming Derek is not your real name then (as Alita is not mine)? :wink: Anyway, great work and I encourage...

I'm really looking forward to this! Not just for what he'll say or the great history of the place (Mesopotamia, ancient Assyria, lost 10 tribes etc) but I've heard it's one of the most beautiful places in the near East.

And a very warm Happy Birthday to Michael Wood (23 July).

Stathi, you hit the nail on the head with your 2 points. I think, not only is there a big move towards admiring Alexander the Great in Greece and among Greeks now (his image is watermarked on every page of every Greek passport issued after 2005), but also, the business with Skopje would have made it...

Paralus wrote:Certainly at the orcs that were apparently ephors.

LMFAO!!

Katerina wrote: I believe Hephaistion knew exactly where he stood with Alexander.

Exactly!

Omens... This is the entry on the Babylonian Astronomical diaries the night before Gaugamela - If on either the 13th or 14th Ulûlu the moon is dark; the watch passes and it is dark; his features are dark like lapis lazuli; he is obscured until his midpoint; the west quadrant - as it covered, the we...

I think Alexander did respect the Egyptians. Otherwise he would not have bothered making the risky journey into the desert to visit Siwa and enquire of a foreign oracle - after all, he'd already enquired of his Greek oracles back home (Delphi). Those are the actions of a man who puts great weight on...

Interesting. Elvis seems to have borne a resemblance to Alexander, in the mouth and chin at least. Apparently he was also a natural blonde. (No I'm not implying the ancient "Elvis" sculpture was of Alexander!)

amyntoros wrote: He showed remorse after the death of Cleitus, but the murder wasn't an act of cruelty.

Sorry amyntoros - an act of justice then?

Personally, I simply don't see that it would be difficult to show both facets of the man. Many of my friends have tried to argue that portraying such a complex man--ruthless but cultured, murderous but loving--isn't feasible, but I steadfastly disagree. So do I. Yul Brynner would have played the pa...

Very unfortunately false. (Sorry!) Unless some famous scholar is on the net using a handle and I've argued with them without knowing it...

The person after me has seen at least 3 Alexander sculptures in real life.

It's called The Person Below/After Me. The way it works is you post a statement (to do with the topic of course) about the person after you and they post back saying whether it is true or false and then posting one of their own about the person after them. For example, I might post: "The person...