Starting over again

[heinrich]

Okay, we now all have said what we wanted to say about the way people behave (or should behave) in this forum. Now let's continue our real business. Is there anyone who has something to say about ALEXANDER?!HM

[Link]

Yes, I want to say this is a forum on the son of a Macedonian King. Alexander's Macedonians were not included as or seen as Greek. That is why the DnA situation today is so revealling Arrian spells it out:ARRIAN (thanks to Susan's sources site)As commanders of triremes were appointed, from the Macedonians, Hephaestion son of Amyntor, and Leonnatus son of Eunous, Lysimachus son of Agathocles, and Asclepiodorus son of Timander, and Archon son of Cleinias, and Demonicus son of Athenaeus, Archias son of Anaxidotus, Ophellas son of Seilenus, Timanthes son of Pantiades; all these were of Pella. From Amphipolis these were appointed officers: Nearchus son of Androtimus, who wrote the account of the voyage; and Laomedon son of Larichus, and Androsthenes son of Callistratus; and from Orestis. Craterus son of Alexander, and Perdiccas son of Orontes. Of Eordaea, Ptolemaeus son of Lagos and Aristonous son of Peisaeus; from Pydna, Metron son of Epicharmus and Nicarchides son of Simus. Then besides, Attalus son of Andromenes, of Stympha Peucestas son of Alexander, from Mieza; Peithon son of Crateuas, of Alcomenae; Leonnatus son of Antipater, of Aegae; Pantauchus son of Nicolaus, of Aloris; Mylleas son of Zoilus, of Beroea; all these being Macedonians. Of Greeks, Medius son of Oxynthemis, of Larisa; Eumenes son of Hieronymus, from Cardia; Critobulus, son of Plato, of Cos; Thoas son of Menodorus, and Maeander, son of Mandrogenes, of Magnesia; Andron son of Cabeleus, of Teos; of Cyprians, Nicocles son of Pasicrates, of Soh; and Nithaphon son of Pnytagoras, of Salamis. Alexander appointed also a Persian trierarch, Bagoas son of Pharnuces; but of Alexander's own ship the helmsman was Onesicritus of Astypalaea; and the accountant of the whole fleet was Euagoras son of Eucleon, of Corinth.

[ancientlibrary]

Well, that proves the point, doesn't it? I wonder if an aggresively moderated forum wouldn't be better. After all, this madhouse scares people away!

[stavros]

Megas alexandros "for the Glory of Greece"

[ancientlibrary]

What? Did something get deleted?

[ruthaki]

Yes. What would Alexander have to say about all this bickering?