Feasting or Symposia?

athenas owl · Post by **athenas owl** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 5:57 pm

"If" ....that is a great one.

As for the potlatch anaolgy, it is a bit of a stretch, but Alexander certainly doled it out by the ton, literally. Though I have always had the little fantasy of producing a play of Euripedes through the eyes of that culture. I live here. Imagine a Greek Chorus as a Coast Salish group of drummers and dancers, the back drop a long house and the misty cedar forests.

I like to think of the culture, in a facetious way, as a cross between the PNW potlatch culure and a dash of Beowulf (the pre Anglo-Saxon Achilles). Those Macedonians sure loved their bright shiny objects and display and their doomed hereos as well.

Lisa · Post by **Lisa** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 6:44 pm

So....I'm guessing that when the sources tell us that ATG grew bored with the pace of the march and went hunting, he was basically hunting for his supper, i.e., meat to supplement his ration of grain? I wonder what he brought home when he got lucky? Boar, I guess, and maybe deer? Any better guesses?

Thanks,
Lisa