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- Tue Mar 08, 2011 6:52 am
- Forum: Alexander the Great in the Media
- Topic: Ancients Behaving Badly
- Replies: 56
- Views: 23624
Re: Ancients Behaving Badly
Well, I did wonder when I just read Marcus's question who Ion is if anyone would be able to tell him before I do. Ion is a character in a play by Euripides called ION. He is the father of the Ionians as such. Just to get to the nitty gritty. I use Euripides as much as I do the Iliad since Euripides ...
- Sat Mar 05, 2011 6:33 am
- Forum: Alexander the Great in the Media
- Topic: Ancients Behaving Badly
- Replies: 56
- Views: 23624
Re: Ancients Behaving Badly
Well, to be honest, most everything that I am using is based upon the books that I have been reading, and I actually wondered if I should use footnotes to give credit to those authors whose works I am quoting or developing. I am following historical data very rigidly and exactly, but I am using a co...
- Fri Mar 04, 2011 5:48 am
- Forum: Alexander the Great in the Media
- Topic: Ancients Behaving Badly
- Replies: 56
- Views: 23624
Re: Ancients Behaving Badly
That is all very interesting, as first of all Thebes is evidence about anyone not submitting to his rule, and that was early on in the game. As for Callisthenes and Aristobulus, I recall that it had been Callisthenes because when it was discussed, it was also in concert with several other arguments ...
- Wed Mar 02, 2011 6:30 am
- Forum: Art and Culture
- Topic: I Need a little Help
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4217
Re: I Need a little Help
Peter, Richard, Bessusww, whatever your real name is, I have sent you a message at facebook and also made a friend request. I would like to see the photos of the brass replica of the ivory carving since you have mentioned it here. Thanks, Jan I go by my real name at facebook. It is Janet Fauble.
- Wed Mar 02, 2011 6:28 am
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Head Tilt
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3904
Re: Head Tilt
I just hope that it didn't resemble Dick Cheney's head tilt. I always noticed that he had a neck problem as well.
- Wed Mar 02, 2011 6:15 am
- Forum: Art and Culture
- Topic: Own an original Alexander - if you're rich enough!
- Replies: 13
- Views: 7731
Re: Own an original Alexander - if you're rich enough!
I would imagine that Oliver Stone, or Colin Farrell, if truly fans of Alexander, could well afford to purchase any of these. Donald Trump would or could if he wanted to add to his collection of artifacts, coins, or whatever. Personally, I collected Franklin Mint coins years ago and ended up selling ...
- Wed Mar 02, 2011 6:02 am
- Forum: Alexander the Great in the Media
- Topic: Ancients Behaving Badly
- Replies: 56
- Views: 23624
Re: Ancients Behaving Badly
HI Marcus, Thanks for reminding me what it sounds like when I suddenly erupt with another of my recollections from the past. Of course, they are not anything but the basis for a novel, not for a history book. I understand well why fiction allows a person to tell a story based upon extraordinary expe...
- Sun Feb 27, 2011 10:35 pm
- Forum: Alexander the Great in the Media
- Topic: Ancients Behaving Badly
- Replies: 56
- Views: 23624
Re: Ancients Behaving Badly
Yes, Marcus, I was actually using Peter Green, and I did see that he had used both Celts and Treballians in his examination of this time period. I do not disagree with you about that, but I do about decimation and merciless. At the Battle of Charonea, he saw to it that all the Sacred Band were kille...
- Sun Feb 27, 2011 5:22 am
- Forum: Alexander the Great in the Media
- Topic: A Time For Oscars
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3332
Re: A Time For Oscars
HI Richard, I just went to youtube to see John Wayne in The Conquerors with Susan Hayward...now that is the joke of all time if you ask me, John Wayne playing Genghis Khan...the voice alone was so dreadful that it was like scraping your fingers down a chalkboard! AGH! NONONONO! Oh NO! YIkes!
- Sun Feb 27, 2011 5:14 am
- Forum: Alexander the Great in the Media
- Topic: A Time For Oscars
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3332
Re: A Time For Oscars
Oh, and speaking of Oscars, I did see the movie The King's Speech. Excellent film. I liked it a lot. Recommend it highly. Jan
- Sun Feb 27, 2011 5:13 am
- Forum: Alexander the Great in the Media
- Topic: A Time For Oscars
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3332
Re: A Time For Oscars
Hello Richard, I have not seen the most recent version of True Grit as I am a died in the wool John Wayne fan too. Nobody but he could be Rooster! By the way, welcome to the group. I had not known that the Duke had portrayed Genghis Khan until you mentioned it here. I must see that film now. What is...
- Sun Feb 27, 2011 4:58 am
- Forum: Alexander the Great in the Media
- Topic: Ancients Behaving Badly
- Replies: 56
- Views: 23624
Re: Ancients Behaving Badly
All these cruelties are very interesting when one considers that early in his career shortly after the death of Philip, when he had to assert his own authority and power, he confronted the getae and the Treballians. He was merciless in his decimation of tribes from the first, and when the Triballian...
- Wed Feb 23, 2011 6:22 am
- Forum: Alexander the Great in the Media
- Topic: Ancients Behaving Badly
- Replies: 56
- Views: 23624
Re: Ancients Behaving Badly
This is an interesting situation that Alexander and Philotas find themselves in, as had not Parmenio warned Philotas several times not to be "bigger than his britches", lauding his own successes over those of Alexander? I had read that he had actually claimed that it was he and his father ...
- Mon Dec 27, 2010 3:05 am
- Forum: Book reviews
- Topic: A Weekly Conversation on Alexander
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2982
Re: A Weekly Conversation on Alexander
Well, these conversations were quite interesting to me. I tweeted and facedbooked each part.
- Mon Dec 27, 2010 2:36 am
- Forum: Alexander the Great in the Media
- Topic: Video of the Moment
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2152
Re: Video of the Moment
I tweeted this and will put it on my blogspot. Liked the images but not the sound system...too noisy...