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- Sat Dec 18, 2004 7:10 am
- Forum: Book reviews
- Topic: New Book Top-10 - Jona's Follow Up
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1398
New Book Top-10 - Jona's Follow Up
Hi Companions ---Over Christmas I will revise the Book Top-10, as Jona suggested (see Jona's post). Now my idea is to stick to "modern" publications (excluding Plutarch, Curtius etcetera). You all know that I love the original sources, but the Top-10 should be primarily helpful for those p...
- Wed Dec 15, 2004 4:58 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: The marching tactics of achaemeneans
- Replies: 1
- Views: 732
Re: The marching tactics of achaemeneans
A fast reply before this message disappears: I have been studying the Persian army for some time now, but I think the whole idea about drums etcetera is just romantic fiction. I haven't come around evidence for this anywhere.Regards ---Nick
- Wed Dec 15, 2004 8:11 am
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Google's new library indexing and Alexander
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3077
Re: Google's new library indexing and Alexander
All the FGrH - for sure!Regards ---Nick
- Wed Dec 08, 2004 11:11 am
- Forum: Book reviews
- Topic: Alexander books
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1890
Re: Alexander books
Kyra, pelase also use our informative Book Reviews in the Books section!Thanks,Nick
- Tue Dec 07, 2004 4:03 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: article on Bucephalus
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2837
Re: article on Bucephalus
Hi Sikander ---Shouldn't we add your excellent reply as a last bonus paragraph to the article?Regards ---Nick
- Mon Dec 06, 2004 7:43 pm
- Forum: Alexander's contemporaries
- Topic: New Article - Alexander's Lovers
- Replies: 15
- Views: 3923
Jona, help! Help! Help!
Is that "conciliatum"?(And "lepore", of course.)Thanx ---Nick
- Sun Dec 05, 2004 7:41 am
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Hooray! I'm a reincarnation!
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1332
Hooray! I'm a reincarnation!
Dear Companions ---This year on holiday in Romania I was leisurely reading Bill Bryson's "A Short History of Nearly Everything", a popular introduction to modern science. Now Bryson writes (page 176):"Atoms, in short, are very abundant. They are so fantastically durable. Because they ...
- Sun Dec 05, 2004 5:50 am
- Forum: Alexander's contemporaries
- Topic: New Article - Alexander's Lovers
- Replies: 15
- Views: 3923
Re: QCR on Euxenippus
Hi Jona ---Million thanks. I will revise the article om Euxenippus.Many greetings ---Nick
- Sun Dec 05, 2004 5:29 am
- Forum: Alexander's contemporaries
- Topic: New Article - Alexander's Lovers
- Replies: 15
- Views: 3923
Re: Bagoas
Hi Corina ---Heckel and Yardley use the translation "lover" in Historical Sources in Translation (Blackwell Publ., 2004), page 40. Indeed, my Scott-Kilvert Penguin translation also reads "favourite", not lover. Now the interesting question is: would Yardley today also translate &...
- Sat Dec 04, 2004 1:51 pm
- Forum: Alexander's contemporaries
- Topic: New Article - Alexander's Lovers
- Replies: 15
- Views: 3923
Re: it's OK & Euxenippus
Hi Jan ---Agree. Maybe it is just the dress?Regards ---Nick
- Wed Dec 01, 2004 2:00 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Cyrus, please no offense
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2009
Cyrus, please no offense
Dear Cyrus ---I deleted your post as it contained a link to an ultra right wing group.Please don't take any offense. I know you meant no harm. This organisation is a neo-nazi group based in The Netherlands. I once filed an internet complaint about them with our Dutch MDI (Dutch Non-Discrimination In...
- Sun Nov 28, 2004 7:27 am
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: alexander
- Replies: 3
- Views: 715
Re: alexander
This is all a matter of non-scientific approaches, European symbols dating from ages ago, but you can find all your answers by searching Google. In general the colours of the playing deck are believed to represent the following 'nations':Spades - the Jewish people (King David is King of Spades)Diamo...
- Wed Nov 24, 2004 4:46 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Rough justice?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1268
Re: Rough justice?
Our sources differ: some say he was crucified, some say he was hanged.Regards ---Nick
- Tue Nov 23, 2004 11:07 am
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Name confirmation?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1879
Re: Name confirmation?
http://www.livius.org/pen-pg/persepolis ... s.htmlJona is really one of the world's best scholars on this subject. Best regards ---Nick
- Tue Nov 23, 2004 10:53 am
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Plutarch quote --- but slightly off topic
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1766
Re: Plutarch quote --- but slightly off topic
Very many thanks, Linda, also a cute one!Dankjewel!Nick