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- Thu Jul 10, 2008 2:08 pm
- Forum: 'Off-topic' forum
- Topic: Just a bit of fun
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3629
hello, There was a man who came from the East, who was given nothing but grief, from a boy by the name of Alexander but sometimes known as Iskander. Two times did they fight for the prize of great Asia broad and wide, But Alexander won the day and Darius did run away, as fast as his long longs could...
- Fri Jun 13, 2008 11:49 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Alexander and his mind
- Replies: 155
- Views: 50509
- Thu Apr 17, 2008 10:49 am
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Alexander's Values
- Replies: 34
- Views: 15413
equality?
Hello, I think that equality wasn't really on Alexander's agenda. It was conquest- subjugating the next town on the horizon- overpowering them- getting submission- and then moving on endlessly on. No stopping place- and if his men hadn't turned on him- God knows where he would have ended up- China? ...
- Sat Apr 12, 2008 12:57 am
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: A quote...attributed to Alexander or Achilles?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3409
Achilles and Alexander
Hi Ruthaki, don't know but the quote you are "quoting" sounds a lot like "- Alexander the Great. . . "It is a lovely thing to live with great courage and die leaving an everlasting fame." somewhere lodged in Arrian. Certainly Achilles would have approved- for it was simply p...
- Tue Mar 11, 2008 3:10 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Halicarnassus
- Replies: 0
- Views: 3658
Halicarnassus
Hello, I think that it is interesting how certain authors can a) extract a lot of detalis and insights from very flimsy information and b) can shift around the story according to their own needs/agenda. In Valerios's narrative, we find Perdicas heading a drunken attack on the walls of Halicarnassus,...
- Tue Jan 29, 2008 11:09 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: What can we Be Sure Of?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3109
Hello, interesting question Kenny, I guess you are right.Mainly what we know about Alexander the man and his persona is very limited. I was thinking just the other day/ what a difficult task it must be to actually sit down and write some new insight on the man or his life because somewhere someone w...
- Tue Jul 17, 2007 10:47 am
- Forum: Book reviews
- Topic: Alexander in literature, theatre, and music
- Replies: 14
- Views: 5914
- Sat Jul 07, 2007 10:55 pm
- Forum: Alexander's contemporaries
- Topic: Roxane
- Replies: 23
- Views: 10506
- Sat May 05, 2007 12:28 am
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Everyday Alexander -or- Daily Life Of A King
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3880
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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. Hello Rocktupac, I went through a phase a while back when I have to confess that "obsessively" I couldn't think about anything e...
- Sun Apr 15, 2007 4:56 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Alexander's memory
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2565
Alexander's memory
Hello, I was just wondering- regarding Alexander's memory- it has been said that he could recite whole plays of Euripides- Homer and the like but not only that he had an incredible memory for names especially those of his soldiers- I thought this would be in Plutarch but can't seem to see it. Does a...
- Mon Apr 09, 2007 8:23 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Alexander and Sparta
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2809
Hello, Like the question and see it as especially well timed. I think that there was a long on going sense of distrust going back to the days of Philip and some of the verbal exchanges between Philip and the Spartans and some of my favorite of this period. Alexander had made it clear that he was in ...
- Mon Apr 09, 2007 3:33 pm
- Forum: 'Off-topic' forum
- Topic: To Create a War Film
- Replies: 36
- Views: 13417
Hello, No sense getting worked up, is there? I liked that closing remark. I love the way people instantly love to find comparisons with America or Hitler or whoever or whatever is on their current agenda- and can't see a piece of film etc. just on its own merits- and personally Paralus, I wouldn't l...
- Sun Apr 08, 2007 7:23 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Alexander the great and Music
- Replies: 26
- Views: 11830
Hello, Thanx for the post- I think that it is for sure that Alexander must have adored music but on campaign he was more like his father and didn't have a mo'. There is no mention of him playing, like Homer tells us of Achilles, playing a melancholy song with his lyre to the fallen dead- but like I ...
- Thu Apr 05, 2007 6:31 pm
- Forum: 'Off-topic' forum
- Topic: To Create a War Film
- Replies: 36
- Views: 13417
Alexander was a warrior primarily.
Hello, Yes, I agree that one of the attractions about studies into Alexander is the wide and vast series of possibiliies regarding his life etc. Althout I must admit that he was essentially a warrior/king and since he was a child was brought up to be one and this perhaps is why he has so little inte...
- Wed Apr 04, 2007 5:46 pm
- Forum: 'Off-topic' forum
- Topic: To Create a War Film
- Replies: 36
- Views: 13417
Hello, I think that I missed the post where everybody was giving their opinion of the film. Anyway, here is mine. The film is for me an extremely violent and at the same time, beautiful spectacle to behold. Take the image of Leonidas speaking to the deformed man- I mean you could easily have turned ...