View Poll Results: Alexander? Great or Bait without his fathers tactics?

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Thread: DEBATE: Alexander the Great

  1. #41

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    Achilles, while a famous name (more so since the movie Troy), is more myth then fact but I guess that is debateable. Caesar is definitely worthy of being on 'the list' though I wonder how famous he would still be if it were not for Shakespear's play. Charlemagne... well that is a tough one to classify. I would not really classify him as a conquorer in the same league as some of the others mentioned but he is definitely note-worthy in his own right. William Wallace... as much as I loved Braveheart he would be a relatively obscure figure in history if it were not for that movie.

    When I think of Alexander the Great style conquorers I think more along the lines of Atilla the Hun and Ghengis Khan.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mormy View Post
    Achilles, while a famous name (more so since the movie Troy), is more myth then fact
    Its not really debatable he is a myth. Historians do not even know if he ever existed at all, but obviously the whole dipping into the river of Styx is myth.

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    I was dipped into the river Styx in a wetsuit, so I'm invincible while wearing that wetsuit.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dawnseeker View Post
    I was dipped into the river Styx in a wetsuit, so I'm invincible while wearing that wetsuit.
    Lemme gues.... you lost that wetsuit?
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    Quote Originally Posted by slanster View Post
    Lemme gues.... you lost that wetsuit?
    No I stole it, and now im wearing sandals sailing to Turkey to invade a field outside Ancrya.

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    Quote Originally Posted by TCWNME View Post
    No I stole it, and now im wearing sandals sailing to Turkey to invade a field outside Ancrya.
    *silently walks away, steps on a twig. (Edited)! he heard me, RUN!*
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    In response to Conrad, (since people think I am just flaming you) So instead I will help you out.

    Your goal as a writer is not to outsmart everyone or prove how smart you are by using big words that nobody understands. Your goal is to communicate with the reader. You cannot do this by just spewing adjectives together, a lot of which were very redundant. For example, what is the point of saying fragmented and fissiparous. They mean the same thing.

    Secondly, don't just state a string of adjectives without going into detail. For example, you state that Alexander the Great was "uxorious, avaricious and was consumed by hubris." How was he uxorious? Did his wife have any political force because of uxoriousness? Nowhere in that paragraph did you explain any of what you claimed.

    Thirdly, when talking about the wars do not just list them and say this happened, then this happened, then this, etc. I am a social studies/history teacher; if I went up in front of the class and said something like you have written down in paragraph 5B, then the students would have zero retention of what I told them. I have reread paragraph 5B several times and still have no idea what you are trying to say. It is not a coherent thought and it is all one sentence. If you are trying to make a timeline, then it was a great paragraph. However, if you are trying to prove your thesis that Alexander the Great was a military genius, but had many faults, then you failed.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hans7 View Post
    Its not really debatable he is a myth. Historians do not even know if he ever existed at all, but obviously the whole dipping into the river of Styx is myth.
    Even Santa Claus was based on a real person. I said it was debateable because a lot of myths were inspired by actual people or events.
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    Achilles in my mind would have probably been as real as Agamemnon...

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