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- Tue Jul 17, 2007 11:12 pm
- Forum: Alexander's contemporaries
- Topic: Clietus. Parmenio, Philotas,Strapal Purges. Chicken feed
- Replies: 80
- Views: 31506
- Tue Jul 17, 2007 11:07 pm
- Forum: Alexander's contemporaries
- Topic: Clietus. Parmenio, Philotas,Strapal Purges. Chicken feed
- Replies: 80
- Views: 31506
Re: Power and Terror
Why isn't it enough to understand the culture and society; to study it and know it to the very best extent possible? To comprehend Alexander's actions within the framework of his society and upbringing should be sufficient Because you also need comparisons to understand cultures and societies. When...
- Mon Jul 16, 2007 11:45 pm
- Forum: Alexander's contemporaries
- Topic: Clietus. Parmenio, Philotas,Strapal Purges. Chicken feed
- Replies: 80
- Views: 31506
Re: Power and Terror
Hi Marcus and Amyntoros, A few comments: All very true; but that wasn't really my point. Although this was not what Kenny was saying (I think), there is a great danger that people will read a comparison with Octavian/Augustus and say "Oh, so Alexander was not as bad as Octavian, because he didn...
- Mon Jul 16, 2007 6:28 pm
- Forum: Alexander's contemporaries
- Topic: Clietus. Parmenio, Philotas,Strapal Purges. Chicken feed
- Replies: 80
- Views: 31506
Re: Power and Terror
Hi all, As a committed defender of comparisons as a method of study, I think it is my “duty” to step in. Since I bored you to death some other times giving you the reasons why I believe comparisons are the way forward, let me tell you now why I think the alternative view is logically wrong. There ar...
- Tue Jul 03, 2007 8:44 pm
- Forum: Art and Culture
- Topic: Sex, power and punishment
- Replies: 64
- Views: 23209
- Sun Jun 10, 2007 6:00 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: what was alexander the great's religion
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3093
... Pausanias also records that because of this “Ammon is not more honored by the Lybian Ammonians than he is at Aphytis.” Aphytis, btw, was in Macedonia! ... Finally, in Thebes there was a statue of Ammon dedicated by Pindar who also wrote a hymn to Ammon which he sent to the Ammonians in Libya. (...
- Fri Apr 27, 2007 5:29 pm
- Forum: Art and Culture
- Topic: Democracy and Alexander the Great
- Replies: 24
- Views: 10829
- Thu Apr 26, 2007 3:46 pm
- Forum: Art and Culture
- Topic: Democracy and Alexander the Great
- Replies: 24
- Views: 10829
Re: Comparisons
"Here we are, 2300 years after his death, talking about this guy. " But for a benchmark, we would then also have to ask how many people are talking about *other* historical figures, because the full count would have to take into consideration if Alexander were truly one of the "most ...
- Sun Apr 15, 2007 9:09 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Alexanders body/height
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4086
- Fri Apr 13, 2007 3:53 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Alexanders body/height
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4086
Art?
Hi all, I was thinking whether art could help us in estimating Alex's height, and so I searched for this thread. My idea is that if statues of Alexander are lifelike, we could get a sufficiently good estimate of his height. That is, either you have a life-size statue (and that would be optimal) or y...
- Mon Apr 09, 2007 4:52 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Alexander the great and Music
- Replies: 26
- Views: 11753
- Fri Apr 06, 2007 11:25 am
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: St Marks Square
- Replies: 21
- Views: 11129
Scope for tests?
Hi all, I just read that the bones that were supposed to be Joan of Arc's weere tested by some scientists (and some perfume people! but that's another story), the result being that they didn't belong to the the French heroine but to an old Egyptian mummy. The article is in every newspaper and was pu...
- Wed Feb 21, 2007 7:12 pm
- Forum: Art and Culture
- Topic: Impressions III: Propaganda.
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2981
- Mon Feb 19, 2007 1:54 pm
- Forum: Alexander the Great in the Media
- Topic: Alexander Revisited (The Final Cut) DVD
- Replies: 58
- Views: 22831
- Mon Feb 19, 2007 1:54 pm
- Forum: Alexander the Great in the Media
- Topic: Alexander Revisited (The Final Cut) DVD
- Replies: 58
- Views: 22831
Hi Paralus, Although slaves in Athens were not routinely “hunted”, one suspects that life for them in the silver mines at Laurium was about as hard and toxic as one could imagine – ditto Mt Pangaeus in Macedonia. They were, in the end, “non persons”.. Yes, I agree strongly. I was trying to give exam...