Thank you so very much, SES1066. Much appreciated!
I see that you are also a student of history, with the date of the Norman Conquest as your handle. Bravo!
And yes, I fully agree. The Byzantine era was indeed the period of many of Greece’s most noteworthy accomplishments, though it moved the locus east a bit to do so...
I focused on the ancient period because I figured that with Alexander as my spokesman, I should speak in his voice, so I focused on his contemporaries and his fifth century predecessors. But that’s just my literary device, not any detraction from your excellent point.
Thanks for your thoughtful comments! It’s a relief (I had feared this was such a peculiar article, nobody might read it!)
Grazie!
JFD
Ah, but one of the wonderful things here in FR is that there are those of us who appreciate the perspective that history affords us. I had fun trying to guess your doppelgänger before you identified him and I will be reading your other Greco adventures tonight.
A smiling aside is that I live in an area with moderately strong Greek influences, the Tampa Bay region of Florida, and a former mayor of Tampa has the name Dick Greco. So 'maybe' that was why I was inclined to read the article initially but I am glad I did.
Now the question to you, author and sage, in comparison between our two handles, which was/is the most significant year for its entire civilization-wide aspect? A smile, answer only if you wish as we both know it could be the subject of endless tomes.