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Greetings Eschatos, I certainly do not mean for the entire issue to erupt again, but I did want to address a few points. "On the other side, sexuality in the classical age wasn't so "manichean" (feminine and masculine) as our nowdays. Loving a male or a female was part of the sexual g...

Greetings, I agree with your assessment of Ms. Savill. However, given her timeframe and background, it is understandable. One of Scotland's own, she was well-respected in her lifetime as a physician and I believe she is also the author of some work ont he affects of music on the human psyche.. For a...

Greetings,

You might enjoy reading the version of Alexander in the "Hell" series (Heroes in Hell, Kings in Hell, etc).from Baen Books... a few interesting twists.. one of the few fiction collections I have enjoyed overall <chuckling>

Regards,
Sikander

Greetings, "recreates the sounds of the aleilaleila, whatever, and it is so funny to watch him do this." Mostly because he does not execute it properly, nor does his expression (boy's own war cry) convey the function of the sound.. Robin tries to create the sound with his mouth, but the wa...

Greetings, Speaking of statues, endowments and symbology.. if I recall correctly, the portrayal of "small" genitalia was to show a refined nature; the satyrs usually were depicted as being well-endowed and "brutish". The story gets better.. the Victorians covered everyone with fi...

Greetings, When a species... or race, if you will, as in human race.. is so intent on destroying its own kind, I find the term genocide apt. Perhaps this is why I find some of the outcry against the ferocity of Alexander somewhat hypocritical.. the history of the human race, world-wide, is a history...

Greetings,

Quote: "I wonder how our "civilized" society can stand such barbaric film-making."

Because there is so little civilization in the world...

http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/warstat1.htm
http://www.scaruffi.com/politics/dictat.html

Regards,
Sikander

Greetings,

If Alexander *did* bathe in saffron, he might well have come out tinted orange <laughing>..

Regards,
Sikander

Greetings, Instead of thinking of the war cry as a verbal cry, think of it as a pure sound.. the "alalai..." coming from the vibration of the throat muscles as the sound is pushed through the throat, similar to the za'eet. Such cries have been, and are, common to tribal peoples and ancient...

Greetings Thomas, While I wish I *could* help, I am going to have a systems shut-down for a few days. In addition,, I live in the high mountains and while I can still moderate and edit (I hope! <smile>), I do not have a fast connection. Please let me know how it goes, however, in case we need to loo...

Greetings Semiramis, I see war as being unsustainable because its long term impact on the people most affected- the soldiers, the families of soldiers, the overall economy- cannot usually sustain a long-term war. People whose family members are dying weary after the numbers no longer seem justifiabl...

Greetings Marcus, You said: "Thank you, Sikander, for introducing me to this. I had not come across it before, and I am glad that I have now read it." You are welcome. I am glad to see it on the internet now. I read it long ago and thought how powerful it was. Then,sometime in the 1980s, I...

Greetings Derek, As per my post of 24 August, we are on the same path of thought. You said: "War as a concept should be so obscene that civilized people never reach a stage where it's necessary, so how come the armed forces of supposedly civilized countries are always embroiled somewhere or oth...

Greetings, <Laughing> Of course, one wonders just how much, after a time, the story would grow in the telling.. soldiers are soldiers, then and now . So is propaganda and ethonocentrism. What is interesting is that those concubines are seldom mentioned after, yet it would have been difficult to palm...

Greetings, <Laughing> Of course, one wonders just how much, after a time, the story would grow in the telling.. soldiers are soldiers, then and now . So is propaganda and ethonocentrism. What is interesting is that those concubines are seldom mentioned after, yet it would have been difficult to palm...