10-22-2006, 07:00 PM
What bothers me about the assertion that Alexander's army was larger than the Persian ones it fought, is that a conviction that our ancestors were inveterate exaggerators of numbers (which they may have been, although I don't personally believe it) has led you, Inaki, to ignore completely the fact that Persia was a great empire, fighting on its own territory, you let this theory blind you to the self-evident. As I have said before, if you minimise the achievements of the Greeks, you also minimise those of the Persians, who were demonstrably excellent organisers.
