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- Tue Oct 26, 2010 10:15 pm
- Forum: Alexander's contemporaries
- Topic: Amyntas
- Replies: 58
- Views: 24711
Re: Amyntas
Yes indeed we have :) My proposal would be to keep him alongside and close, let him have a "minor" command, and if he (Alexander) doesn't have a son at a reasonable age when he get's ill or killed in combat, then the Macedonians at least have a ready made king all the marshals could rally...
- Tue Oct 26, 2010 5:21 am
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Alexander's languages
- Replies: 32
- Views: 13664
Re: Alexander's languages
Thank you! that is really helpful. So how did Alexander communicate with the various Persians he took under his wing - in Greek, presumably? My question was partly sparked off by reading about the death of Cleitus and how A called to his Hypaspists "in his native Macedonian" - implying th...
- Thu Oct 21, 2010 8:27 am
- Forum: Alexander's contemporaries
- Topic: Amyntas
- Replies: 58
- Views: 24711
Re: Amyntas
Hi Semiramis, Yes, indeed that Amyntas. I don't know about a more "legitimate" claim, as others have already said Philip II was king for many years (rightly or wrongly), and Alexander by this point would probably have had a better claim than Amyntas just on this fact, let alone his own ac...
- Tue Oct 12, 2010 7:50 am
- Forum: Alexander's contemporaries
- Topic: Amyntas
- Replies: 58
- Views: 24711
Re: Amyntas
Ah yes... Fun and games Argead style.marcus wrote:Indeed, and the cogency of each argument also depended on who was wielding the knife ...
- Tue Oct 12, 2010 7:37 am
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: 1 October, 331 BC
- Replies: 19
- Views: 5834
Re: 1 October, 331 BC
Haha... I take it you have a supply of these? Or are you just getting my hopes up?
- Tue Oct 12, 2010 7:34 am
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: The Syrian woman
- Replies: 11
- Views: 5175
Re: The Syrian woman
Thanks for posting this Dean. It's a very interesting story. I hadn't come across it before. It seems Alexander could be quite trusting, almost to the point where he must have baffled and even frustrated his security personnel. The letter warning him about the doctor also comes to mind. Also the fli...
- Sat Oct 09, 2010 3:36 am
- Forum: Alexander's contemporaries
- Topic: Amyntas
- Replies: 58
- Views: 24711
Re: Amyntas
I'm sure the cogency of the two arguments would have strongly correlated with the level of personal gain for the individual considering them.
- Thu Oct 07, 2010 2:50 am
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: 1 October, 331 BC
- Replies: 19
- Views: 5834
Re: 1 October, 331 BC
Gift me a pretty Persian boy and I shall consider your request.
- Thu Oct 07, 2010 2:45 am
- Forum: Alexander's contemporaries
- Topic: Amyntas
- Replies: 58
- Views: 24711
Re: Amyntas
Nikas, Are you talking about Amyntas whose father was king before Phillip? Then technically speaking - Amyntas had a more legitimate claim to the Argead throne than Alexander, didn't he? When Amyntas' father Perdiccus III died, Amyntas should have become king. Phillip, to put it bluntly, stole the t...
- Wed Oct 06, 2010 4:26 am
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: 1 October, 331 BC
- Replies: 19
- Views: 5834
Re: 1 October, 331 BC
I have like a dozen candles in my house. Will have to raid several candle factories to follow through with your suggestion. Impractical mate... :P That was my idea of a joke. They are usually received approximately like that one. Yes, following through with that suggestion could possibly turn the w...
- Wed Oct 06, 2010 4:17 am
- Forum: Alexander's contemporaries
- Topic: Amyntas
- Replies: 58
- Views: 24711
Re: Amyntas
Accursed, I may be confused, but I thought Alexander only had a few months (at most three?) in Pella as King before he went up north to attack the Thracians and Illyrians. Pretty much straight after that he was off to shower the Thebans with his affections. After subjugating the Greeks he was only b...
- Mon Oct 04, 2010 11:55 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: 1 October, 331 BC
- Replies: 19
- Views: 5834
Re: 1 October, 331 BC
Accursed,
I have like a dozen candles in my house. Will have to raid several candle factories to follow through with your suggestion. Impractical mate...the_accursed wrote:I suggest we light candles to commemorate the victims of the Macedonian horde. One for each victim should suffice.
- Mon Oct 04, 2010 11:52 pm
- Forum: Alexander's contemporaries
- Topic: Amyntas
- Replies: 58
- Views: 24711
Re: Amyntas
Alexander not fathering a son before the campaign against Persia, on the other hand, was idiotic, and evidence that Alexander was a man entirely unfit to be king. I think it's a bit harsh to say "idiotic". Ill-judged, perhaps, especially as Alexander was going into battle and was not one ...
- Tue Sep 28, 2010 7:14 am
- Forum: Alexander's contemporaries
- Topic: Amyntas
- Replies: 58
- Views: 24711
Re: Amyntas
ii-v) Alexander may have been young, but he had a responsibility to the Kingdom and State, like all monarchs, to think to the future. If we are to believe what we are told, from a young age he was more "mature" than his age would imply (think of the questioning of the Persian ambassadors)...
- Fri Sep 24, 2010 4:17 am
- Forum: Alexander the Great in the Media
- Topic: Achemenet
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2728
Re: Achemenet
Good Lord! How did I not know about this?!? Merci beaucoup.