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- Mon Sep 05, 2005 11:27 am
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: What games did Alexander play as a child?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2801
Re: What games did Alexander play as a child?
In fact, the type of games are very similar to those played by children up until the 1970s, I would say. Di dthey play Greeks and Persians, like our Cowboys and Indians, I remember soemwhere reading about a game called "bees"..can't remember where..Linda
- Fri Jun 24, 2005 7:14 am
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: What if?
- Replies: 40
- Views: 10625
Re: What if?
Actually, it was all very lucky he got there just after Darius died...someimes I wonder exactly how much of Alexander's luck he made himself...Linda
- Fri Jun 17, 2005 5:16 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: My thoughts about the sources
- Replies: 28
- Views: 8974
Re: My thoughts about the sources - continued
Jan Curtius says, in relation to the affair of the Persian nobleman who was executed, that Bagoas influenced Aleander while he was making his body available to the king..pretty explicit. May just be gossip, of course, but he does say it.Linda
- Fri Jun 17, 2005 10:50 am
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: My thoughts about the sources
- Replies: 28
- Views: 8974
Re: My thoughts about the sources - continued
Curtius says Alexander had a sexual relationship with Bagoas - quite clearly. But things can be open to a variety of interpretations, and even the sources are biased, and I do think that the more you read about the culture of the times, then the more it helps to understand - language can be used in ...
- Thu Jun 16, 2005 8:48 am
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: I need your oppinions on this
- Replies: 23
- Views: 7681
Re: I need your oppinions on this
In Greek surely...or Macedonian..Discuss. :)Marylin - I don't really know about whether there was a lot of "promiscuity" then, and polygamy woudl mean that the morality of what was good and bad was different also. But, yes, Alexander was considered restrained. And being bisexual is not a s...
- Tue Jun 14, 2005 6:12 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: I need your oppinions on this
- Replies: 23
- Views: 7681
Re: I need your oppinions on this
Marilyn,I agree with you - I think Alexander probably was "functionally bisexual". But I ha' ma doots that he was typical. Anyway.LI could have a teesirt printed "I.m with Marcus, too"...
- Mon Jun 13, 2005 6:10 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: I need your oppinions on this
- Replies: 23
- Views: 7681
Re: I need your oppinions on this
Perhaps a better word would be "socially acceptable" behaviour, rather than "norm" even though that is what started the whole discussion. And I would agree, certain social circumstances encourage "romantic" friendships which may or may not become sexual, and there is a ...
- Mon Jun 13, 2005 11:36 am
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: I need your oppinions on this
- Replies: 23
- Views: 7681
Re: I need your oppinions on this
Hi SikanderSexual continum studies - I beleive there is a changing thinking away from the cultural "blank slate" aspect of sexuality and more to genetic factors. But that is also not an absolute indication. There is a lot to be discussed. More than almost anything, it is an incredibly subj...
- Mon Jun 13, 2005 6:30 am
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: I need your oppinions on this
- Replies: 23
- Views: 7681
Re: I need your oppinions on this
I think Sikander once posted something on this which was vey fair, which is that in different socisties, at different time, different conventions and practices were usual/tolerated/encouraged.I would agree with you that I also think that Jeanne's article is perhaps too sweeping in this regard, using...
- Fri Jun 03, 2005 11:52 am
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: bad news
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3317
Re: bad news
Indeed. I am sorry to hear about her illness. I hope we will see her again soon.Take careLinda
- Fri Jun 03, 2005 7:03 am
- Forum: Alexander the Great in the Media
- Topic: DVD
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1333
Re: DVD
Stone said he woudl do that, so he could get teh DVD into schools. I guess American schools just can't cope with that sort of reality... In any case, I thought the romantic stuff was pretty lame anyway...Linda
- Fri Jun 03, 2005 5:48 am
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Calling all those interested in Hephaistion!
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2788
Re: Calling all those interested in Hephaistion!
At a guess I would say that the survey *might* conclude that school-girl type crushes which create imaginings of slashy type relationships can lead to learning :)Certainly, a teenage pashes on Hephaestion *and* Patroclus led me to read the Illiad, the Odyssey, and Arrian, and Heckel, and try to lear...
- Wed May 25, 2005 12:24 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Male paramours in antiquity
- Replies: 46
- Views: 10402
Re: Male paramours in antiquity
MarilynJust to say, I think this is a great post. Very sensible and eloquent.Linda
- Wed May 25, 2005 12:17 pm
- Forum: Book reviews
- Topic: Liber de Morte, Polyaenus online
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3033
Re: Liber de Morte, Polyaenus online
If I had any comment on the site, and it is a great resource, is to echo what Karen said; a brief bio and background to the sources would be helpful to those of us less well up on the lesser known sources.I have just spent this afternoon reading about gold couches, naked flute girls and far flung la...
- Wed May 25, 2005 7:20 am
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Discussion on Sexual Mores of Ancient World
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1168
Re: Discussion on Sexual Mores of Ancient World
Thanks Sikander - I'd like to learn...Linda