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It has been ages since I've written anything here, but that's what happens when university life catches me unpreapred.
Thakfully, I'll have so free time now, before the exam period starts again. There are good news and bad ones.The good ones being that I'm done with Latin, I' passed it and hopefully won't see Cesar and other chaps for some time. the bad one is that I can't stand ancient history professor assistant, or however is called a person who teaches or helps professor but hasn't done his phd yet. I swear I'll attack him physically next time he mentions Alexander. I mean the guy is an idiot. Well, he told me that english translations of ancient sources and those in other lamguages are not the same, therefore since i've read them in English they aren't valid.WTF!!!!!!!!And he has problem remembering if Alexander was the III or the IV, or was his wife's name Roksanda or Roxana, or claims that there were no evidences why was Philip regent for the first one or two years of his reign instead of being king...and the list goes on. so, the last time I had a nice discussion with him. He claimed that Macedonian army didn't love Alexander anymore at the time of his death, the resons are the revolt in India, attempts of
assassination, the Gedrosian desert failiure. I told him that yes they were unsatisfied, but first we have to define the meaning of love and separate it from respect, hero worship and other similar meanings.He didn't agree and kept saying how he wasn't loved any more and how any other campaign he would've undertaken would have been complete disaster b/c he couldn't do anything with his army. I pointed out that soldiers were satisfied when they got back to Babylon and yes, some wanted home, but in general people are happy when you give them money and let them spend it and accept their
achievements and that the attempts of regicide were attempt of few and although they show disatissfaction in the army it
doesn't mean that everyone was for it. So we went on and on, until he couldn't say anything but that we should agree that he was respected.DUH!!!Oh, and he told me 'listen,i'm your lecturer, so i know'-what an answer.
I think I better stop before I ruin poor computer, coz i'm really angry and it's the neares thing i can hit :)
Thakfully, I'll have so free time now, before the exam period starts again. There are good news and bad ones.The good ones being that I'm done with Latin, I' passed it and hopefully won't see Cesar and other chaps for some time. the bad one is that I can't stand ancient history professor assistant, or however is called a person who teaches or helps professor but hasn't done his phd yet. I swear I'll attack him physically next time he mentions Alexander. I mean the guy is an idiot. Well, he told me that english translations of ancient sources and those in other lamguages are not the same, therefore since i've read them in English they aren't valid.WTF!!!!!!!!And he has problem remembering if Alexander was the III or the IV, or was his wife's name Roksanda or Roxana, or claims that there were no evidences why was Philip regent for the first one or two years of his reign instead of being king...and the list goes on. so, the last time I had a nice discussion with him. He claimed that Macedonian army didn't love Alexander anymore at the time of his death, the resons are the revolt in India, attempts of
assassination, the Gedrosian desert failiure. I told him that yes they were unsatisfied, but first we have to define the meaning of love and separate it from respect, hero worship and other similar meanings.He didn't agree and kept saying how he wasn't loved any more and how any other campaign he would've undertaken would have been complete disaster b/c he couldn't do anything with his army. I pointed out that soldiers were satisfied when they got back to Babylon and yes, some wanted home, but in general people are happy when you give them money and let them spend it and accept their
achievements and that the attempts of regicide were attempt of few and although they show disatissfaction in the army it
doesn't mean that everyone was for it. So we went on and on, until he couldn't say anything but that we should agree that he was respected.DUH!!!Oh, and he told me 'listen,i'm your lecturer, so i know'-what an answer.
I think I better stop before I ruin poor computer, coz i'm really angry and it's the neares thing i can hit :)