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"Great read without barely an error,unlike Hammonds books which are full of errors."Now that's a call I wouldn't make - even when fuming!I'd have to say that Hammond's view (does html formatting work here?) of Alexander may not always match my own (as I've said elsewhere, I tend strongly t...

"And also i find it very unlikely for all men and teenage boys in Athens and or in greece to be attracted by the same gender."Whilst I take your earlier points Efstathios, I didn't quite claim that "all men" were attracted to the same gender.I'm currently reading Cartledge's &quo...

Hi Marcus.Yes, I think the point is largely irrelevant. The concoction of the "Hellenic League" by Philip was entirely political GÇô to enable him to claim to be the leader of "the Hellenes". Something his son followed him in.Just watched the Director's cut of Alexander The Great...

Suggestion noted Marcus.I did though, attempt to steer clear of that...eventually.

"you are the uneducated, anti-greek that is becoming evident more so on this website."if he wasnt of greek origin, what the hell was he? there were ancient Greek kings in Macedonia 400 years before Alexander the Great."Assuming that is directed to me, I would have to state that no, I ...

Arhidia,Apologies for the gratuituos "grow up" line.One should never type whilst angry - particularly when the focus of that anger is not the person being typed to.I shall take my own advice forthwith.

Please "Macedonian", don't carry on like a dill. Of course Alexander was at war with the Greeks (Hellenes). And of course the Greeks saw Alexander (as his father before him) as a "barbarian" of the 'Macedones'. Demosthenes GÇô in his "Philipics" GÇô played on this very ...

Oh, what crap "arhidia".Next thing you'll be telling me he brought the "brotherhood of man" to the world - especially the Mallians.Read some and grow up.

Just on your last point (homsexual relations as a type of love), the Greeks (or as you say Athenians as they are who we know most about) would have viewed a homsexual relationship prior to "settling down" with a wife as the normal course of events.Indeed it was quite normal for such relati...

Kenny,Karl points up the Bactrian/Sogdian experience and it entails some rather gruesome examples. It unlikely a co-incidence that many of these dove-tail with what can only be described as fierce and entrenched Macedonian opposition to Alexander's "orientalising" policy (as well as pay ba...

Kenny,I imagine that we'll likely not agree here. The argument that the brutal rampage by Alexander in the Punjab was a "tactic" to put down "Insurgents" (isn't that just today's word?) doesn't quite match his actions in Sogdiana and Bactria. Whilst there were some punitive measu...

For my part Kenny, I was at a loss to understand the relevance of your post to my enquiry wirth resect to a novel I'd read some thirty years back. I've since worked out that you were most likely replying to "Themis" (I think). Hence my questioning the "provenance" (for want of a ...

I think the "political" marriage to Roxane (the Sogdian nobleman's daughter) is instructive. He apparently felt a dynastic marriage might help settle what was (and remains for today's hegemon) a difficult to control area and population.I'm not so certain that the west was really figuring o...

I'd tend to agree Heinrich.Porus was independent basically from the moment the Macedonians moved on. Alexander knew this and it is in large part the reason he was made satrap.Bactria and Sogdiana were never really settled - as much campaigning attests. Truth be told the Persians just "controlle...

Themis,It's past two am in my part of the world so I'll be short.It seems my search for a novel which I read some thirty years back has sparked some to-ing and fro-ing about an American Empire. Can't see why. I merely mentioned its plot outline: that Alexander did not die in 323 bc and secured not o...