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by amyntoros
Sat Feb 07, 2004 4:22 pm
Forum: Book reviews
Topic: Book recommendation
Replies: 11
Views: 1912

Re: Book recommendation

Marcus, I have a spare copy of the article from the 1968 National Geographic. It isn't the complete issue -just the article on Alexander with the pages stapled together. I pick up old National Geographics all the time at tag sales, but I don't have the shelf space to keep them intact, and I just can...
by amyntoros
Sat Jan 31, 2004 2:10 pm
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: Winter attire
Replies: 10
Views: 9446

Re: Winter attire

I also have a personal interest in Alexander's clothing and have been doing some research on the subject. I doubt if Alexander's army would actually have worn trousers (or sleeves), despite the army of Xenophon sensibly adopting the garment. Alexander's soldiers were so appalled when he adopted Pers...
by amyntoros
Sat Jan 31, 2004 1:28 pm
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: RE: Chariot sports
Replies: 21
Views: 7024

Re: Bareback

Hello Andrew and Sikander:Very interesting information on bareback horse riding from both of you - thanks. I doubt that I shall ever put it into practice as I have been having enough difficulty staying on my feet because of the ice in New York City. I don't imagine I would last too long on a horse. ...
by amyntoros
Fri Jan 30, 2004 10:52 am
Forum: Comments, help, suggestions etc
Topic: virus warning
Replies: 9
Views: 3383

Re: Spoofing

Hello Ruth:I sincerely doubt that your computer was ever infected. Sikander is correct about "spoofing" the sender's address, though the likely source of these infected emails is someone elses computer that had your email address in their files. See this from AOL's page on a worm that is c...
by amyntoros
Fri Jan 30, 2004 10:30 am
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: RE: Chariot sports
Replies: 21
Views: 7024

Re: Bareback

Greetings Sikander!Interesting comment - and good to know that you haven't developed "massive" thigh muscles! Wouldn't it be more likely though if you were bareback on a horse all day, every day, for days/weeks/months at a time? (Much the same as a spaced routine of lifting weights can jus...
by amyntoros
Thu Jan 29, 2004 7:29 pm
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: RE: Chariot sports
Replies: 21
Views: 7024

Re: Chariot sports

Thanks Andrew for the Dryden translation. It's interesting to see how two different translators interpret the same information. I have the Penguin edition of Plutarch's The Age of Alexander, but I rather prefer your Dryden version. Another book for for my wish list.I've actually found what seem to b...
by amyntoros
Wed Jan 28, 2004 7:07 pm
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: RE: Chariot sports
Replies: 21
Views: 7024

Re: Chariot sports

The only reference I know of is from Plutarch:"If he were on a march which required no great haste, he would practise archery as he rode, or mounting and dismounting from a moving chariot, and he often hunted foxes or birds, as he mentions in his journals."This thread has roused my curious...
by amyntoros
Sun Jan 18, 2004 9:55 pm
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: A piece of trivia / to lighten things up a bit
Replies: 10
Views: 2185

Re: A piece of trivia / to lighten things up a bit

There may be truth in the statement that being clean shaven prevented the enemy from getting a hand hold. All the Persians on the Alexander sarcophagus are portrayed as having their beards wrapped in some kind of cloth. Was this also to prevent the enemy from grabbing a hold, especially as their bea...
by amyntoros
Sun Jan 18, 2004 5:03 pm
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: Cleophis, a Queen of India
Replies: 23
Views: 5253

Re: Cleophis, a Queen of India

Hello Sikander!I'm wondering if this hypothetical child was born in India, as Wolfie suggested, how much real importance would be placed upon the child by the Successors? If one of them tried to use such a child to gain position, would the Macedonian armies have actually rallied around? Or would the...
by amyntoros
Sat Jan 17, 2004 1:36 pm
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: RE: Funeral Games (customs)
Replies: 5
Views: 2005

Re: RE: Funeral Games (customs)

Hello Ruth:I just found the following tidbit from Athenaeus, quite by coincidence. You can find it in Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae, Book IV. 155 a. (Harvard University Press, first printed 1928, reprinted 1957 - translation by Charles Burton Gulick, Ph.D.)"And Diyllus of Athens, in the ninth book...
by amyntoros
Fri Jan 16, 2004 11:20 pm
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: Cleophis, a Queen of India
Replies: 23
Views: 5253

Re: Cleophis, a Queen of India

Plus, in these circumstances, there is the burden of proof of a child being truly Alexander's offspring. So isn't it likely they would have remained amongst their own people, ignored by the western histories, and become part of the history/legends/folktales of their eastern culture?Yes, I know this ...
by amyntoros
Fri Jan 16, 2004 11:19 pm
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: Cleophis, a Queen of India
Replies: 23
Views: 5253

Re: Cleophis, a Queen of India

Sikander, you set me to thinking: could Alexander have had other children without them being noted in history - the history being that of the Greek/Roman western tradition?We know he had one son, Herakles, when he died, and Roxane was pregnant. Why was Nearchus' suggestion that Herakles be given the...
by amyntoros
Fri Jan 16, 2004 10:38 am
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: Cleophis, a Queen of India
Replies: 23
Views: 5253

Re: Cleophis, a Queen of India

I did give the writer the benefit of the doubt on that one - he did say "legend has it". However, I was probably being generous. There is another page on the site that refers to Bucephalus and briefly gives the story of Alexander's taming of the horse. However, they have a most colorful de...
by amyntoros
Thu Jan 15, 2004 10:29 am
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: Cleophis, a Queen of India
Replies: 23
Views: 5253

Re: Cleophis, a Queen of India

Cleophis does seem to have gained importance in the Romances though, which is understandable with her being the alleged mother of Alexander's child. It's interesting to see how the stories change. Even Cleophis' origins were altered when Handel wrote an opera in 1731 called Porus. In this story, she...
by amyntoros
Sat Jan 03, 2004 10:47 pm
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: MORE NATIONALISTIC PROPASGANDA -
Replies: 22
Views: 3589

Re: MORE NATIONALISTIC PROPASGANDA -

Some of Alexander's Companions were definitely interested in athletics, and I suspect might have competed in the games that Alexander held throughout the campaigns. There is a chapter in The World of Philip and Alexander, A Symposium on Greek Life and Times which is entitled Philip of Macedon, Alexa...