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They actually did that to justify to the gods their constant murder of people who, even they knew to be, good old Greeks.

That's all I wanted to hear ;) - Magna Graecia has been an intense area of my study of late since as an EB member one of my big goals is to further expand our network of ethnicities (I wrote most of...

Since the former and the latter are both factions I presumed that their units represented the hoplites of a number of different cities under their respective hegemonies, particularly since one is...

Fabulous material mate, and I hate to ask what is probably an oft repeated question (though my admittedly cursory scanning of the preview for images and historical info, hehe, didn't turn it up), but...

So, essentially, people would like it if it was better? Well superdyduperdy, we should have thought of that.



I think an objective analysis of our respective products would evidence a more then...

Wow, thanks for all the replies :laughter: Awesome to hear though, I hadn't realized they'd be in. Cheers :thumbsup2

I've been wondering... have you guys put Egypt in control of Kyrenaica (as the map seems to suggest)? I ask because as I understand it, his control there was never more then just a great deal of...

Hehe, good stuff mate :thumbsup2 Really enjoyed the use of the proper Babylonian material earlier.



I wrote that trait ages ago and never encountered it myself; you've made me incredibly happy...

Considering his behavior afterwards, it seems pretty clear it was in a bid for power, though he did manage to get himself killed fairly quickly after taking over Macedonia.

One good place you could contact, particularly if you were interested in selling it, is http://www.forumrarebooks.com/forum/ . I browse around it every now and then, but I'm fairly sure relatives of...

I can't credit Livy at all with this particular conversation. Though it does contain a number of particulars (details which, incidentally, do fit the conclusion of the battle quite happily), it was...

My great-grandfather actually had a first edition copy of this (or another Cicero) at some point as I understand it, and I've been told by my great-uncle (who received it later) that most early...

Looks like really good stuff mate; tremendously anxious to get something done with Antioch and Sicily.

It's government, traditions, dress, language, nomenclature, military practice, and internal political divisions (provinces, etc) to list a few substantial reasons why Rome was less Hellenistic.

The last Hellenistic/Hellenic Kingdom was actually the Empire of Trebizond, and the last one associated with the conquests of Alexander was in fact the Kingdom of Strato II (ruling jointly with his...

Very true, but even Darius realized the fact that his own native infantry was tremendously inferior to his opponents - that's why he began shoring up his cavalry, because he hoped they would win his...

Not for the most part, but they do recognize different collective designations. Sephardic Jews are traditionally Jewish families who went to Spain during the Diaspora, Ashkenazi Jews to Europe and...

It seems to vary. Mine came out to twelve dollars total, for all four.

I was really impressed to see they were selling "Theodora" and all of Paul Cartledge's work. This really is an incredible...

Sounds like fun; count me in.

Well, the problem with the elephants was almost certainly that they were gathered up only very shortly before Zama, and thus had next to no training.



As a note, that's not actually generally...

I have high expectations, though I think I'll be disappointed as far as our Indian faction goes. The Mahabratha has a huge amount of information, but even more accessable should be the writings of...

This "debate" is really just frivolous. You can't call "Jews" influential because their ideology, entirely unintentionally and arguably against their wishes, spun off into two other, albeit, major...

Groovy :) Since I still have nothing too creative for everyone, go ahead and give us another one :tongue:

For the second, I know that Alexander Solzhenitsyn published a book called the Gulag Archipelago (a much better read then I had expected before I read it). Is that what you wanted or is that just...

Kidnapped, taken, away from their homes,
-Must be a reference to the purges.

to the land of islands, slaves and bones.
-Solzhenitsyn? The nature of the camps themselves?

To further the aim of...

Based on "man of steel" my first guess was Stalin? Though I can't see that fitting all of the poem...

:crazy:

Well, on a very basic level, when you expand a polity and engage neighboring peoples in a more homogenouos state, you trigger a reduction in regional tension - especially when dealing with...

"Naked Female Archers" are a bit of a mixed blessing... though I'm just excited to imagine the mods that could come from this; just playing as Porus or Ambhi should make it worth it.



And the...

Edit: Woops, nevermind :crazy:

There have been a few helmet types; the montefortino and it's simple later variants, the next evolution of it's variants being the hagenau type, then the better constructed Weisenau with a reinforced...

Has anyone ever read the Byzantine Emperor Maurice's treatise the Strategikon?



Absolutely! I read his "Short History of Byzantium" (1000 + pages, hehe) sitting on the beach. It was the most...

Maybe technically, but he was really a member of the Polish nobility, and that he specifically requested his posts in Poland suggests a streak of civic devotion, since he was certainly not a...

Would it be Rokossovsky? If I recall correctly, he fits the bill, though I think he may have actually been Polish.

I find it very interesting how far people can stray from the cliched moral teachings of our childhood. You're friendly with people before you hit it big, but when you do, you're too good to hang out...

My understanding is that it's first, a dirt hill, covered artificially, and now covered by a subsequent layer of earth.

The guy who "discovered" the thing is really a fruitcake though. He owns...

Haha; yeah :) If you want to get past that, study the successors. After you get through a couple centuries, you'll have no problem remembering people by their epithets.

Spartan would seem to be...

The lack of accord here has made me question myself a little, since I don't have any of my books on hand and I don't want to have to google this, but Hannibal's did indeed have a brother called...

Hannibal did have a brother named Hanno; he was left in command of Northern Spain when Hannibal began his march.

Lt. Col. Dodge, for his Hannibal. Wonderful read, though I've always enjoyed historical novels that deal with Hannibal... I'm convinced I'm his reincarnation :cool:

I'd always understood that after Polystratus had gotten him the water, Darius said something to that effect that he was grateful to heaven for allowing him to not die 'alone and abandoned?' Not...