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What can I say! if I am less imaginative than others - there can only be one explanation for all things my mind does not comprehend. It must be aliens!!

Aliens sounds good to me - do you have a problem with such a response?

Aliens! thats all I can say, Aliens!. Those darn Aliens have been messen with our understanding of history far too long. If they had never visited this planet, things would have been so much easier to undesrstand. I reckon if we ever spot one of those extra-terresticals (sp?) - we should just tell e...

It seems that the ancient sources are crystal clear that Alexander himself ordered that his body should be taken to Egypt and that Ptolemy promised his putative half-brother and the saver of his life that he would carry out those orders. The body was destined to be buried at Ammon, yet this did not...

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Most of these missing acts turn out to be found together in a single verse of one of Euripides' most famous funeral scenes in his Alcestis. Given the other evidence that Alexander was very familiar with Euripides' works and the fact that the playwright had actually lived in Macedon, I think the con...

Efstathios wrote: And Smitty, sometimes these legitimate educational schools are only teaching you the lines in a book, and not what may be beyond them. And maybe alter them too.

Good point! disregard all that I have said.


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I may have been a little misleading with my last post. Margaret Cool Root does not give any specifics regarding the ownership of the sarcophagus - rather she states that the sarcophagus has been misappropriated by western scholars as a piece of 'Greek Art' and the associated iconography has been tra...

As I've shown in Alexander's Lovers , Alexander was clearly following Euripides' Alcestis in some of his acts of mourning for Hephaistion: shearing of horses' manes, banning of music, ordering mourning throughout the realm and donning mourning robes. Best wishes, Andrew G'day Andrew, sorry I don't ...

I'm pretty sure that anumber of orientalists expressed similar views several years ago. I think it was Margaret Cool Root, writing on Achaemenian art, suggests classicists have it all wrong regarding the sarcophagus. The image of the Persian king on the inside of the shield was what clinched it for ...

Ovid's Metamorphosis has an interesting little section which in my opinion throws light on the religion of the Macedonians. I believe the religion of the Makedones was a little more rustic than that of the southern Greeks - and the Ram seems to have played a significant role in Macedonian religious ...

Had he made it to Australia - he would have ended up an Olympic swimmer!

Sorry, couldn't resist.

Still got me chuckkling.

Evidence of this are the findings at Australia, Polynesia, and even at south Africa. Coins, Greek names of places, and Greek like names of people, and other things that are from the Hellenistic era. . Such 'facts' can be further supported through the observation of some of Australia's wild life. Ne...

Her name was Gygaea. It has been suggested by at least one modern scholar that the the child of Bubares and Gygaea, (Amyntas) was being groomed to become satrap of Macedon. Due to the Persian wars, he remained an official at Alabanda, a Phrygian town under Achaemenid control. We can only speculate o...

rocktupac wrote:I am obsessively interested in finding out what his true character was like and if that's even possible. Thanks.

Let us know when you find out.

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