Thanks Scoutmaster.
Posted on 10/11/2014 9:03:49 AM PDT by Scoutmaster
FYI
I didn’t know he was missing.
Who would name their child Confirmed Found?
How do they know the remains are those of Alexander the Great’s father?
Did he have an ID card on him when he was buried?
And now these tombs have been looted
Had he lived we would must likely be talking about Philip the Great, instead of Alexander the Great.
Was the father a Great Great or just a Great?
If so wouldn’t that make Alexander a Great jr?
Thanks Scoutmaster.
No joke. He wanted to invade the Persian Empire, but knew he’d have to wrap up the Greek city-states before he started. When Al crossed to Anatolia, he liberated the Greeks there and other occupied peoples (and of course took over their rule). The huge polyglot Persian army had Greek contingents who at first didn’t like the Macedonian, but during the long winter at Balkh, as the Great One was healing from serious wounds, a couple hundred thousand Greek reinforcements were on their way to join him, so many that he split his army into four parts and cleaned out all opposition that much faster.
If ol’ Hades could rape Persephone & drive a chariot at the same time, he was one bad dude.
“If it’s rockin’ don’t come knockin’,”
Suggest the books by Mary Renault: http://www.amazon.com/Mary-Renault/e/B000AP5EFQ44
(exception: “The Charioteer”)
Alexander The Great²
They were both Great.
They affected the whole world in ways few families have ever done.
The Greek culture was dominant for an age, and its heavy influence continues to the present day.
There’s a reason that the New Testament was written in Common Greek.
What’s your take on Phillip’s assassination? cui bono?
Obvious answer is Olympias and Alexander. Olympias had to be offended by Phillips womanizing and marriages to younger women.
Alexander eventually wound up with the prize, the Macedonian crown.
Phillip was greater than Alexander.
Without Alexander, Phillip would still have historic achievements and be written in the books of history. Without Phillip, Alexander would have been nothing.
I am not dismissing the astounding person Alexander was, his amazing feats or what he achieved. I am just reminding people that the education, training and ambition Phillip gave Alexander was necessary for him to do what he did.
All too often, Phillip of Macedon is just a footnote in Alexander’s history.
Very likely true.
King Phillip II’s Armor was rumored to be magical giving the wearer +3 on a dice roll to dexterity. I will assume his Vorpal Blade was already looted in the first chamber years ago by another player.
Very nicely stated and completely true. Phillip invented and built the Army Alexander used in his conquests. Not taking anything away from Alexander, he is of course one of history’s great commanders. But in my mind Phillip was the real genius behind the Macedonian military.
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