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- Marcus: You mentioned that they would bring boys to Alexander and not men.Actually the text says they were youngsters ( PAIDAS ONIOYS).But are you forgetting that Alexander was a youngster too at that time?He had not even gotten out of teenagehood.These youngsters were close to his age and the inc...

Ok,this if is for xxx,Amyntoros,and Marcus I am trying to use arguments in order to show to you that something that you consider as a fact may not be a fact.Because at least xxx is convinced about Alexander's sexuality ,as he considers him a homo -bi or whatever as a fact.This is what drives me insa...

"That was for the one who bills himself as an Athenian" I do not bill myself as an Athenian, i am an Athenian.There is a difference. "Alexander could and did sleep with males" Your oppinion.But kite the text (source) where you got this "fact" from.I would be interested ...

Scholars are also humans.Do not forget that.And the fact that many scholars disagree in their books and essays shows us how there are many different beliefs and explanations about something.

Yes but there are other occassions too in which Alexander did not follow the doctor's orders.Like when he was heavily injured and he rode a horse in order for his men to see him that he is alive.Ans generally he was stubborn,if he wanted to do something he would do it imnspite of the doctors' orders...

And to reply about the "gay" part:(Sorry i do not want to turn this into a "was Alexander a gay" discussion,but it was mentioned) There is one thing that i do not understand.Why these people that state that Alexander was not a gay e.t.c are tagged as homophobics?Then we shoud put...

I agree. Alexander was able to see the entire battlefield in his mind and the details on the positions of his troops and the enemy troops,the possible scenarios, and the outcomes of different positionings of his divisions. All these are nicely described in "Virtues of War" by Pressfield.As...

"But one can tempt the fates by not taking care of oneself properly - unconscious suicide if you will...or just plain worn out" That is not the case with Alexander.What was he supposed to do?kill all of his friends and anyone that he thought that plotted against him in order to prevent an ...

And to answer to your original post. Alexander could not have ended his life by himself because his pothos and his dream as not all about reaching the ocean.It went beyond that.Alexander was still young and had the time to do whatever he dreamed of.He planned to invade Arabia and he had plans in his...

Macedonia was an area covering from mount Olympus up to where today Skopia is,and including a part of Bulgaria ,and in the east the borders were up to the black sea.That at the time of Philip's and Alexander's conquests.That was the aera that we call Macedonia.Today half of this area belongs to Bulg...

The Macedonian debate is strictly prohibited from this forum.As far as i am concerned and the rest of the historians' community there is no such issue,as the origins of Fyrom and the slavs is well known.But this is an "Alexander the Great's" forum and such debates,even if they are of no hi...

Speaking of the sources does anyone know any site that is devoted to the Oxyrinch scripts?(The scripts that they now trying to read with the method of x-rays,or something like that). It would be very interesting to see if among them there is anything about Alexander.After all these scripts are suppo...

I start this post because i think we have run out of space in the previous thread and there were somne errors while trying to post in the end. So,to reply for the reactions of the soldiers: This whole event is described by Athenaeus who quoted Dicaearchus.What do we know about Dicaearchus?Very littl...

Yes i saw that statue in a documentary too.It must have been the same one.(I really liked it by the way),and i am searching it myself. I am also searching for a colored statue (or was it a pic of a statue colored?) of ALexander that i once saw in the net but cant find it anymore.

I mentioned in my last post that i dont disregard anything.Of course Ptolemy and Aristovoulos were not completely reliable.But they were in many important things like the description of the battles,the places the chronologies. Now if Ptolemy had not been objective about Alexander burning Persepolis ...