01-06-2008, 09:31 AM
The Greeks were pretty hygienic, so what would be the problem with soap? Although I don't recall that passage.. :lol:
Perhaps the fuss was because it was the first attempt in a long time, and it actually put you in the mind set of the killing field!
It certainly brought the sounds smells and feels to life for me!
When i visited Greece as a tourist for the first time, it was a great experience trying to find the locales of Pressfields books, and discovering for my self what was fact and fiction......and what a blurred line he makes...and he does make a disclaimer to actual historical writing....
If we want to find uncritically historical accuracy we should look to the ancient writers for that.. :oops: :oops: oh dear, we can't even do that, apparently :lol: :lol: :lol:
I say it is a great novel, and so are his other books...Tides of War and Last of the Amazons!!
Perhaps the fuss was because it was the first attempt in a long time, and it actually put you in the mind set of the killing field!
It certainly brought the sounds smells and feels to life for me!
When i visited Greece as a tourist for the first time, it was a great experience trying to find the locales of Pressfields books, and discovering for my self what was fact and fiction......and what a blurred line he makes...and he does make a disclaimer to actual historical writing....
If we want to find uncritically historical accuracy we should look to the ancient writers for that.. :oops: :oops: oh dear, we can't even do that, apparently :lol: :lol: :lol:
I say it is a great novel, and so are his other books...Tides of War and Last of the Amazons!!
Visne partem mei capere? Comminus agamus! * Me semper rogo, Quid faceret Iulius Caesar? * Confidence is a good thing! Overconfidence is too much of a good thing.
[b]Legio XIIII GMV. (Q. Magivs)RMRS Remember Atuatuca! Vengence will be ours!
Titus Flavius Germanus
Batavian Coh I
Byron Angel
[b]Legio XIIII GMV. (Q. Magivs)RMRS Remember Atuatuca! Vengence will be ours!
Titus Flavius Germanus
Batavian Coh I
Byron Angel
