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For some it might be the equivalent of saying Father Christmas doesn't exist but how many Greek legends were really true?There wasn't a Trojan horse, Homer probably didn't exist, Pythagoras probably wasn't a mathematician and he didn't prove his theory, how Spartan were the Spartans, et caetera ...Just "dodgy subjects" for educators? What do you think? http://www.bbc.com/news/business-27923256
I had heard many years ago that Homer may not have existed, so things like that wouldn't rattle me too much. The one listed in that article which is most striking to me is that Alexander the Great wasn't so “great”. Obviously “great” is a subjective term, but I seem to recall that he took courageous action on the battlefield which provides strong evidence about his heroic qualities. Now, he might have been short and stocky as the article puts it, but the portrait busts of him from the ancient world (I believe there were three different types) make him out to be somewhat appealing, physically.
There is a Swiss scientist saying that Atlantis was on Mars and that they traded with the ancient Egyptians.link
There is a Swiss scientist saying that Atlantis was on Mars and that they traded with the ancient Egyptians.link
This might be the main reason for the referendum on immigration held on February 2014 😛About Alexander and others, I think it's more about their achievements or according to later chroniclers that they owe their "nickname" : the Great, the Fat, Lackland, Lionheart, the Magnificent, etc. and less about their physical appearance. IMO
Sources are quite confusing, some pretend that it came from a tongue-in-cheek origin as he was in fact very hairy, others saying that he earned that nickname from his own father as Charles was his youngest child and his landlessness when he was born: everything was already distributed among his 2 elder brothers Lothair and Louis.Some other stunning nicknames here after, no doubt people knew how to have fun at the timehttp://www.cracked.com/article_16410_the-impotent-lousy-historys-10-worst-royal-nicknames.htmlhttp://listverse.com/2013/11/12/10-badass-medieval-monarchs-with-obnoxious-nicknames/
Talking about Ancient Greece, it seems that a wine cup used by Pericles was recently found in Athens suburbs, ironically in Sparta streethttp://www.smh.com.au/world/wine-cup-used-by-pericles-found-in-grave-20140730-zypt9.html
I don't know what to say. On one hand, I find it almost *too* amazing that they found a cup that just so happens to belong to Pericles. I mean, think of the fact that there may have been 300,000+ people living in Athens in the mid-fifth century B.C…..the fact that the cup dates to the time that Pericles was living (rather than 300, 100, or even 50 years after his death)….and it seems kind of preposterous to think that we just so happened to have found a cup that Pericles actually used.On the other hand, the scholars who have been examining the cup must have considered these facts as well and still have concluded that it belonged to Pericles - being "99 per cent" sure. I do trust that they did their work when they made their findings public. Therefore, I don't want to dismiss their findings based on the fact of its rarity. In the end, this could be a really amazing find, or a case of archaeologists being duped/mistaken/premature in their conclusions.
There is a Swiss scientist saying that Atlantis was on Mars and that they traded with the ancient Egyptians.link
I thought you were referencing von Danikin here for a minute instead of somebody equally wacky.
The discovery of an enormous tomb in northern Greece, dating to the time of Alexander the Great of Macedonia is in progress.The structure dates back to the late 4th Century BC and is 500m wide; with its 2 caryatids and sphynx, lot of speculations regarding the identity of the tomb's occupant is underway.So who can that be? Amphipolis tomb
Wow, a very interesting excavation! I like how they interviewed the farmer to get his opinion about the inhabitant – and of course, he goes all in for Alexander!
Amphipolis tomb, episode 2According to our man in Havana, archaeologists have found a coffin and its skeleton inside the tomb! what will be next? this is so "enthralling"...Amphipolis II
I'm waiting for antiquities scholars to start asking themselves, “now why is it again that we are so convinced that Alexander was born in Egypt?”
