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- Tue Oct 08, 2019 7:48 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: travel to Macedonia
- Replies: 2
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Re: travel to Macedonia
I'm wrapping up my trip in Greek Macedonia. I'd definitely add Edessa to the list. It was a beautiful surprise. And Dion, Mt Olympus and Aiani if you have time. Driving would be a must since there's no other way to get to Mieza. I've had my share of adventures with driving but it's doable. PM me if ...
- Sun Aug 25, 2019 3:54 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Hunting and archery
- Replies: 8
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Re: Hunting and archery
An interesting article on this subject. tl;dr - archery in hunting was Persian and Alexander only learned it later in his reign.
https://www.academia.edu/18033229/The_P ... tion_paper
https://www.academia.edu/18033229/The_P ... tion_paper
- Sun Jul 28, 2019 6:44 pm
- Forum: Book reviews
- Topic: Historical inaccuracies
- Replies: 10
- Views: 14085
Re: Historical inaccuracies
Speaking for myself(an average English reader who knows no Greek) only, I was fully aware when I read fictions . Actually even when I read history text books I keep my skepticism - one needs to look no further than our high school history class materials and compare to those three decades ago. That'...
- Fri May 10, 2019 6:11 pm
- Forum: Book reviews
- Topic: Dancing with the Lion: preorder is open
- Replies: 33
- Views: 28819
Re: Dancing with the Lion: preorder is open
Congrats on the books! Beautiful covers
Look forward to reading them!
Look forward to reading them!