It has been ages since I've written anything here, but that's what happens when university life catches me unpreapred ( Read more... )

I have a problem with inserting links to a post. I click on the 'insert/edit link' icon when updating journal, but when I type the link in the space provided for it nothing happens, there's no link, just blnak space. So I wonder what's wrong. I use Mozilla Firefox instead of IE, but I doubt that's what's making  the problem. I'm really stupid when ( Read more... )

I've thought it would be neat to try  and find how at least some of Alexander's companions looked like in reality, so here are some of them, the ones I found on the web:

HEPHAESTION: Since there are couple of representations of him and
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An October night in Zarangiana was not much different from the summer nights of Macedonia; the air was hot and muggy, dripping with humidity. It was only  by sudden whiffs of cool air, rushing through open doors and windows and unnoticeable cracks in the walls of the aged castle, that one could notice the first signs of refreshing autumn. Yet, ( Read more... )

Trying to find something else, I stumbled across this article about ATG and alpha males and how ATG is a tipical alpha male. Well, I don't know much about psychology or alpha males, but it was a nice reading and not too long. So, here is a quote from there and the link:

Alexander the Great: the superb career of an alpha-male
By: Paolo Crocchiolo

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Until now I've thought I loved my history lessons, but now I'm seriously starting to doubt it. Well, my professor of classic history was so impressed by my work on Alexander (not the one I still have to hand in) that while they had a little nice chit-chat over a coffee he had to mention it to my professor of oriental history. So, the oriental ( Read more... )

Gay Rights ( Read more... )

One thing I found on Alexander when I was in Armenia is that manuscript on him from the Manuscript Museum in Yerevan. Here's the pic:


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This is the first time I've ever heard that Alexander had a daughter, but according to the genealogy tree (follow the link below!) he got her by Roxanne. The girl was married to Achaeus I Prince of Syria, who was Seleucus I Nikator' son, who was again Alexander companion. She had 4 children, of whom some ruled Syria.
The link is here: 
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My father's collegue's son is lurked into white slavery thing or human trafficking or howere it's called and it seems  he can't get out of it! He's somewhere in Tajikistan or Khirgystan or Turkmenistan or some other of those countries, I couldn't remember it's name. I'm so shocked and depressed! He can't call his parents, his papers were taken away ( Read more... )