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Remains of Alexander the Great's Father Confirmed Found

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Re: Remains of Alexander the Great's Father Confirmed Found

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It's a shame that Philip of Macedon can't get his own billing. He was a legend in his own right before his son overshadowed him.

What really gets no billing is the Wars of the Diadochi. I'm reading Ussher's "Annals of the World" and its quite amazing all the twists and turns in the battle for the empire.

Re: Remains of Alexander the Great's Father Confirmed Found

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post #28

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The USA calling itself America and claiming only its citizens can be called Americans, when really all people from Canada to southern Argentina are Americans. Europeans live on the continent of Europe, Africans in Africa, Asians in Asia etc. People counter with Canada, Mexico etc. are in North America and South America so why isn't the USA the USNA?

why isn't the USA the USNA Even if you include the southern continent, there's no similar collection-of-states, so the USA is just as accurate as the USNA.

There are actually two other large federal republics on the same continent. One is Estados Unidos Mexicanos, "United Mexican States", and the other is República Federativa do Brasil, "Federative Republic of Brazil".

Re: Remains of Alexander the Great's Father Confirmed Found

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You exaggerate , Greeks dont hate you. Some angry, some frustrated , some don't care. As a Greek myself, I don't like to say to other countries what they should name themselves but there is an entire area in Greece already that is called Macedonia that is even more ancient than Alexander himself. So at best case scenario the name is at least an inconvenience for us. Its like France deciding to name itself London, how…

The USA calling itself America and claiming only its citizens can be called Americans, when really all people from Canada to southern Argentina are Americans. Europeans live on the continent of Europe, Africans in Africa, Asians in Asia etc. People counter with Canada, Mexico etc. are in North America and South America so why isn't the USA the USNA?

How about, because we're the only country on both continents that bothered to put "America" in their name?

Re: Remains of Alexander the Great's Father Confirmed Found

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post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The USA calling itself America and claiming only its citizens can be called Americans, when really all people from Canada to southern Argentina are Americans. Europeans live on the continent of Europe, Africans in Africa, Asians in Asia etc. People counter with Canada, Mexico etc. are in North America and South America so why isn't the USA the USNA?

why isn't the USA the USNA Even if you include the southern continent, there's no similar collection-of-states, so the USA is just as accurate as the USNA.

Though to be fair, one of our states is not in either America.

Re: Remains of Alexander the Great's Father Confirmed Found

#38
post #21

All we need now is the blood of his enemy and the flesh of his servant.

Hey, back to work. Some of us are a bit anxious for a few more chapters.

On the one hand, Eliezer is not your bitch. Eliezer will write when Eliezer feels so inclined.

On the other hand...

PLEASE CAN YOU WRITE SOME MORE ELIEZER OH PLEASE KTHX BAI

Now, here's the good news, from http://hpmor.com/chapter/102

> The current schedule calls for HPMOR to complete in early 2015. I am still writing the final arc so that I can post it without delays. As of Oct 1st I am 65,000 words in and working on Ch. 116. I will post Ch. 103, a brief one-shot, to announce when I have a definite schedule for posting the final arc.

w00t!

Re: Remains of Alexander the Great's Father Confirmed Found

#39
post #3

It's a shame that Philip of Macedon can't get his own billing. He was a legend in his own right before his son overshadowed him.

From reading the article it's obvious that they have tons of very detailed information on Philip II. The only part of this title that fails to convey this is the title.

Re: Remains of Alexander the Great's Father Confirmed Found

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Personally I find that modern historians tend to be "jealous" of old historians and are quick to accuse them for misinformation, prejudice and superstition. But again and again the "myths" are proving to be the truth. Obviously not always. We live in an age that we tend to overestimate to great degree of our technology and underestimate the raw power of human mind. The ancients had both the means and the method to pr…

You have to consider that, especially in Roman times, ancient historians tended to produce works at the behest of a sponsor. Assuming that political motivations may twist their objectivity is not a stretch.

I think this is why I enjoyed reading Montifiorre's Stalin biographies. Stalin was so universally hated in his native Georgia that there was no taboo in or desire to withhold all the details of his life that would have been omitted in a biography of a more respected leader.
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