Posted on 05/15/2007 4:39:17 PM PDT by blam
kewl!
Re post #6, it is amazing what a leader with resolve can do for you, but then again Alexander did not have chiquahuas like Reid, Kerry, Murtha and the DBM nipping at his ankles every day.
Or maybe the writer just confused Alexander “the Great” with Zorba “the Greek”? Nothing to get “crucified” over.
Hey Civ......thanks for all the pings, I love the articles.
Nam Vet
Hmm, there are fragments of the lost work of Alexander’s official biographer, and an account by his admiral (they did use ships here and there, even though the fleet was sent home pretty much as soon as Alexander crossed into Anatolia; part of the army returned from India, via the Indus River and Indian Ocean, aboard ships built for the purpose on the banks of the Indus, while Alexander led the rest of his army overland back to Persepolis and then Babylon), but they survive as longish quotes or paraphrases by later biographers (Arrian, Curtius, uh, I think another guy, and perhaps Plutarch). So the answer is, the contemporary sources for Alexander didn’t make the whole trip in entire, but were still available to later authors whose works have survived, even though they lived some hundreds of years later. :’) If you’d like a fascinating synopsis of Alexander, In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great (DVD) by Michael Wood, seems to be unavailable on Amazon, but is probably at the library.
FYI, Michael Wood has written a number of historical volumes on Britain, incl. Roman and Dark Ages-era Britain, and a bio of Shakespeare, that are well worth reading.
I’ve got the Alexander DVD, and the Trojan War DVD, and the earlier edition of the book accompanying the latter. I think a joint publication/release is his usual way of operating. One I’d like to track down is his program on Central American civilizations (Mayans etc).
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