03-07-2013, 11:04 PM
Eduard:
What are your criteria to determine what is reporting and what is literary convention?
Fully arbitrary opinions? Or you have some more systematic scheme of analysis of sources?
Maybe describe it.
I have an impression, that your method of determining what is true and what not, is as follows:
"If facts contradict Eduard's theory, then so much the worse for the facts."
Or maybe you participated in a real Ancient battle, and that's how you know what is reporting?
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BTW - as this redraw of a relief shows, Ancient Assyrian lancers were using stallions rather than mares:
![[Image: Assyrian_horsemen_arabs.png]](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7d/Assyrian_horsemen_arabs.png)
What are your criteria to determine what is reporting and what is literary convention?
Fully arbitrary opinions? Or you have some more systematic scheme of analysis of sources?
Maybe describe it.
I have an impression, that your method of determining what is true and what not, is as follows:
"If facts contradict Eduard's theory, then so much the worse for the facts."
Or maybe you participated in a real Ancient battle, and that's how you know what is reporting?
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BTW - as this redraw of a relief shows, Ancient Assyrian lancers were using stallions rather than mares:
