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Speaking to the larger archaeological question, I do not like any exhibit that sets out to "prove" anything, to present "evidence". An traveling exhibit should be just that. Not something created to make a point. I see it in "Biblical Archaeology" and here at home for m...

Oh I agree on all that...especially about the women in the Macedonian court. I think I should have put this quote in...it lays out the politics a bit more clearly. An exhibition on the ancient Macedonian royal lineage of Alexander the Great that presents evidence that his family and kingdom were fir...

I would love to see this....it sounds wonderful.

Sadly, this:

“series of finds which prove that Alexander the Great did not just spring out of nowhere

rather irritates me. It isn't just an exhibit...though i won't go any further than that, except that I sense some politics.

Alexias....I like your points. When I think of the Syrian Woman, I think of the "court jester"....note I am not saying that she was or that there was in fact any role like that in Alexander's time. However, perhaps she was perceived in that sort of light and allowed access that was not nor...

Wasn't Alexander's line from a cadet branch in the first place, going back to Amyntas III (father was Arrhidaeus?), who was the grandson or something (I'm not at a place where I can be sure) of the brother of a king, a brother who had managed to keep his head down while the rest of the family killed...

Well, I spent a bit of time with "the Google" and as far as I can tell, the earliest reference to this quote is 2003 from a Navy Logistics newsletter. Colonel Koh Lai Hock of the Joint Logistics Department of the Singapore Armed Forces also used the same quote in a Logistics meeting in 200...

It's all speculation. What happened, happened. I think that is what drives me nuts about the "what if"s.... It's fun, but beyond that, it's just a way to play out one's own assumptions. Though on a more positive note, it also is a way to examine the players at the time, I suppose. This goe...

I just realised something, they have William Gates as SecDef. The SoD is ROBERT Gates...so they can't even get the guy's name right...I didn't catch that till now.

I would love to have that book... :cry: I think I was better off not knowing it existed. I have never seen the quote before either. It isn't from one of the modern fiction books is it? I haven't read Pressfield's book, but would that be something he'd have Alexander say? Of course, folks have been p...

The plan to invade Asia was Phillip's - not Alexander's. Parmenion had already crossed into Asia minor. On a related note, Macedonia's financial state at the time has been described as "bankrupt". Perhaps the timing of the Persian invasion was not so much under Alexander's control after a...

Thanks for the link to Arrian, Paralus. The brothers I am talking about are different than Alexander II and Perdiccas...one he hunted down in Olynthus or there abouts, and I do think there was another one as well. Half brothers, sons of Amyntas III by Gygaia? I have it somewhere in my pile of books....

Philip seems always to have had an eye on the future: his kingdom’s future. :lol: Sorry...that cracked me up. It's a good thing he still had that one eye. I am more cynical than you (whod'a thunk it!), in that I don't ascribe his motives as saving his kingdom except in as much as he was reaching fo...

Somehow, your opinions suggest to me a certain subjectivity and judgment. Okay dokey. We'll agree to disagree on whether you are more subjective or at least your verbage is. I suppose that you could say pointing out that the Argeads weren't ever playing "Happy Families" is subjective and ...

Haha...good one Amyntoros....for all of Henry's begatting and attempted begatting and the marital "issues"..and the break with Rome...the Virgin Queen remains the best of the lot..too bad Henry VII (not VIII) couldn't have produced a sensible heir. It's all the first Tudor dynast's fault! ...

Where did I single you out? I was talking about the whole discussion, everywhere, that "if only Alexander had done this or that" his empire wouldn't have "crumbled"..though words like "idiotic" do suggest a certain subjectivity and judgement. as does: Producing a Macedo...