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by Paralus
Sat Dec 10, 2005 7:40 am
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: Logic and Reasoning behind Alexanders brutality Towards Indi
Replies: 10
Views: 2567

Re: Logic and Reasoning behind Alexanders brutality Towards

Nicator,I don't disagree that the campaign through the Punjab was necessarily anything approaching a "normal campaign" (in Greek experience). And yes, were he to hold these areas, firm measures were needed.Indeed, reading the sources (particularly Arrian), one is (or I was) struck by the t...
by Paralus
Wed Dec 07, 2005 9:26 pm
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: Alexander the...time traveler.
Replies: 23
Views: 5696

Re: Fools, with your crazy tin-foil-hat fantasies!

And it wasn't an arrow in India - just twenty-one too many pappadams on top of the three dozen naan and a quart and a half of rogan josh.Lord knows what he ate in Babylon after Gedrosia! Possibly he over indulged at McNebuchadnezzars, Hungry Ptolemy's (where the goats are barbequed) and MFD (Mesopot...
by Paralus
Wed Dec 07, 2005 5:43 am
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: Was Alexander the last of the lead by Example Commanders?
Replies: 10
Views: 2271

Re: Was Alexander the last of the lead by Example Commanders

"I guess the Maceodonian way was to lead the charge Philips numerous wounds and scars baring testimony to his example."Not just the "Macedonian way" Kenny. Many a Greek general had died prior to the Macedonians leading "from the front".Think of Epaminondas, Pelopidas, t...
by Paralus
Tue Dec 06, 2005 4:48 pm
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: Logic and Reasoning behind Alexanders brutality Towards Indi
Replies: 10
Views: 2567

Re: Logic and Reasoning behind Alexanders brutality Towards

I don't doubt there was "extreme loyalty" to Alexander from the league Atha. Also, I don't doubt that loyalty took the form of obeisance to the far stronger power.Marcus has already written much of what I would have stated. I'd add that the resentment against Thebes GÇô festering never far...
by Paralus
Mon Dec 05, 2005 7:46 pm
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: Logic and Reasoning behind Alexanders brutality Towards Indi
Replies: 10
Views: 2567

Re: Logic and Reasoning behind Alexanders brutality Towards

You seem destined to excuse any excess on behalf Alexander Kenny. Your point about the difficulties of subduing (or keeping subdued) Bactria/Sogdiana is taken. Hegemons of the current era have experienced no less in Afghanistan. The Persians the same before them.To excuse Alexander's brutal tactics ...
by Paralus
Mon Dec 05, 2005 5:14 am
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: Alexander the...time traveler.
Replies: 23
Views: 5696

Re: Fools, with your crazy tin-foil-hat fantasies!

Yes Karen! you can see it now eh?Just prior to the Indian campaign, sequined Persian robes, swinging hips and singing to a section of the high command:So here I go again,
With and old friend I knew,We Can't go on together,
With supspicious minds.
And we can't build my realm,
With suspicious minds...
by Paralus
Wed Nov 30, 2005 8:17 pm
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: Alexander the...time traveler.
Replies: 23
Views: 5696

Re: Alexander the...time traveler.

Perhaps it is all to do with death. The death of the time traveller automatically moves him on?Was That really Epominondas who died at Mantinea in 362?? Caesar stabbed in 44?? Here again are some - large in history - who flamed across the firmanent and moved on...Believe I shall wait for the survivi...
by Paralus
Wed Nov 30, 2005 5:23 am
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: Alexander the...time traveler.
Replies: 23
Views: 5696

Re: Alexander the...time traveler.

Right....let's see here...Yep! I can fly with this! Prior to "becoming" Alexander, our time traveller visited Athens, encouraging the residents to trust to a wooden wall of ships. Having convinced a reluctant Greek fleet to stay, fight and win and - knowing he'd be needed elsewhere - he ma...
by Paralus
Mon Nov 21, 2005 10:17 pm
Forum: Alexander the Great in the Media
Topic: Heroism- on the BBC site
Replies: 3
Views: 1994

Re: Heroism- on the BBC site

Well, G'day Dean!I've read Pressfield's "Gates of Fire" (homage to the heroic good-guy Spartan image) and the "Tides of War" Peloponnesian War epic. I found the first just a little too starry eyed with respect to the Spartans. The second was quite a good attempt at what is a most...
by Paralus
Mon Nov 21, 2005 3:22 am
Forum: Art and Culture
Topic: Action alert: Persepolis ruins in jeopardy
Replies: 7
Views: 3254

Re: More info

Well, thank the lord that's been resolved!For the life of me I couldn't understand Iran - even run by the "Mad Mullahs" (as some have it) - eradicating Darius' Paarsa.A cultural abomination to better the Taliban's Afghanistan ignorance should such ever occur. On which point, possibly sever...
by Paralus
Fri Nov 11, 2005 12:23 am
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: Memnon of Rhodes: Alexander's only equal
Replies: 6
Views: 2548

Re: Memnon of Rhodes: Alexander's only equal

Interesting question Stella.I'd not say that Memnon was Alexander's equal. His advice though to the Persians prior to Granicus was cogent. This was wise policy on two accounts. Given that the lands burned were those Alexander needed to "live-off", this was not something Alexander could aff...
by Paralus
Mon Nov 07, 2005 3:51 pm
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: Hoarded money
Replies: 9
Views: 2402

Re: Hoarded money

The Macedonian levies that faced the Romans at Cynoscephale (197, Philip V), Magnesia-by-Sypilos (189, Antiochus III) and Pyda (168, Perseus) were unfortunately nothing like those lead by Alexander and his father PhilipII. As well, those armies were largely mercenary in nature. It is arguable that t...
by Paralus
Mon Nov 07, 2005 3:50 pm
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: Hoarded money
Replies: 9
Views: 2402

Re: Hoarded money

Monophthalmos was, I think, the realistic chance of reuniting most or all af the Empire "alejandro." Of the others, Eumenes, though a surprise packet in the field, would not have been tolerated GÇô nor was "big' enough. Perdiccas was not ever a popular bloke with the troops (as is amp...
by Paralus
Fri Nov 04, 2005 9:12 pm
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: color of his eyes
Replies: 11
Views: 2278

Re: Only in the Romance

Yes "Ruthaki", and I doubt that it relly matters "squat" in the scheme of things.Though, it's always nice to know just how that statuary was originally coloured - including the eyes.We're visual creatures so i suppose that's the reason for such fixations.How soon the book? Have y...
by Paralus
Fri Nov 04, 2005 9:05 pm
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: Hoarded money
Replies: 9
Views: 2402

Re: Hoarded money

Harpalus was responsible for a treasury hoard in Babylon estimated at no less than 180,000 talents (Carteledge, "ATG", 2004). A stupendous amount that would need a somewhat extreme case of profligacy on behalf of some tens of kingdoms to dispense with.He absconded in 324 to Athens with the...