"Very good, Jack. Yes. As I said earlier, the Wonders and the Callimachus text are the key."
"However, first, I'm going to bring another thread in, before I look to tie it all together, so bear with me. Alexander the Great. Now, there's a well known story about Alexander. Before he went on his all conquering Persian campaign, he visited an Oracle, at the desert oasis of Siwa, in Egypt. The things that were said between the two of them are widely recorded, I won't repeat them here, more pertinent to our discussion is the gift the Oracle gave Alexander. Something he would take on his campaign, despite the vast effort that required, given that it was so large and heavy, it took 'a whole covered wagon, and eight donkeys to draw it'."
Doris was quicker on the ball than Jack this time, and promptly suggested, "The Capstone?"
Max smiled. "I believe so. Further more, I believe that during his Persian campaign, or, perhaps more accurately, immediately after it, he broke the capstone into seven pieces and placed them within the wonders. The two wonders that were yet to be constructed at the time of Alexander, the Lighthouse and the Colossus, would be built or paid for, respectively, by Ptolemy I of Egypt, Alexander's closest general."
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Date: 2013-05-04 05:01 pm (UTC)From:"Very good, Jack. Yes. As I said earlier, the Wonders and the Callimachus text are the key."
"However, first, I'm going to bring another thread in, before I look to tie it all together, so bear with me. Alexander the Great. Now, there's a well known story about Alexander. Before he went on his all conquering Persian campaign, he visited an Oracle, at the desert oasis of Siwa, in Egypt. The things that were said between the two of them are widely recorded, I won't repeat them here, more pertinent to our discussion is the gift the Oracle gave Alexander. Something he would take on his campaign, despite the vast effort that required, given that it was so large and heavy, it took 'a whole covered wagon, and eight donkeys to draw it'."
Doris was quicker on the ball than Jack this time, and promptly suggested, "The Capstone?"
Max smiled. "I believe so. Further more, I believe that during his Persian campaign, or, perhaps more accurately, immediately after it, he broke the capstone into seven pieces and placed them within the wonders. The two wonders that were yet to be constructed at the time of Alexander, the Lighthouse and the Colossus, would be built or paid for, respectively, by Ptolemy I of Egypt, Alexander's closest general."