What\'s in a name?
Let's play the Name Game. Jeremiah-style. (You know, how you can usually get an idea of who a character is and where a character's arc might go from who that character is named for?)
I'll begin (and boy, do I begin with a doozy):
MARCUS ALEXANDER (named for Marcus Aurelius and Alexander the Great).
Marcus Aurelius: was a Stoic and a Roman Emperor who spent most of his time defending the enlightened realm of Rome from the ravages of the barbarian Britons, Germans, and Parthians. From The Electronic Library: "Marcus Aurelius was concerned with improving living conditions for the poor, particularly minors. He was always lenient with political criminals and tried to decrease the brutality at gladiatorial shows. He did, however, persecute the Christians, whom he regarded as natural enemies of the empire. His Meditations, available in several translations, expresses with great beauty and humanity a philosophy with a Stoic basis. The virtuous character of Marcus Aurelius is revealed in his letters to his tutor Fronto."
Alexander the Great: What hasn't been said about this guy? He was a pretty ruthless conquerer (he took over most of the known world at the time), one of the most fantastic military minds the world has ever seen, and he did it all before he was thirty. He even had Aristotle as his tutor when he was a little boy in Macedon. He was a born leader. He influenced the spread of Hellenism more than any other person. However, as stated in the Electronic Library: "At Susa Alexander found that many of the officials he had chosen to govern the conquered lands had indulged in corruption and misrule. Meanwhile certain antagonisms had developed against Alexander; in Greece, for instance, many decried his execution of Aristotle's nephew, the historian Callisthenes, and the Greek cities resented his request that they treat him as a god. Alexander's Macedonian officers balked at his attempt to force them to intermarry with the Persians (he had himself married Roxana, a Bactrian princess, as one of his several wives), and they resisted his Eastern ways and his vision of an empire governed by tolerance. There was a mutiny, but it was put down. In 323, Alexander was planning a voyage by sea around Arabia when he caught a fever and died at 33."
Hmm...
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channe@[url="http://cryoterrace.tripod.com"]cryoterrace[/url] | "Last one to kill a bad guy buys the beer." -lost in space
[This message has been edited by channe (edited March 04, 2002).]
Let's play the Name Game. Jeremiah-style. (You know, how you can usually get an idea of who a character is and where a character's arc might go from who that character is named for?)
I'll begin (and boy, do I begin with a doozy):
MARCUS ALEXANDER (named for Marcus Aurelius and Alexander the Great).
Marcus Aurelius: was a Stoic and a Roman Emperor who spent most of his time defending the enlightened realm of Rome from the ravages of the barbarian Britons, Germans, and Parthians. From The Electronic Library: "Marcus Aurelius was concerned with improving living conditions for the poor, particularly minors. He was always lenient with political criminals and tried to decrease the brutality at gladiatorial shows. He did, however, persecute the Christians, whom he regarded as natural enemies of the empire. His Meditations, available in several translations, expresses with great beauty and humanity a philosophy with a Stoic basis. The virtuous character of Marcus Aurelius is revealed in his letters to his tutor Fronto."
Alexander the Great: What hasn't been said about this guy? He was a pretty ruthless conquerer (he took over most of the known world at the time), one of the most fantastic military minds the world has ever seen, and he did it all before he was thirty. He even had Aristotle as his tutor when he was a little boy in Macedon. He was a born leader. He influenced the spread of Hellenism more than any other person. However, as stated in the Electronic Library: "At Susa Alexander found that many of the officials he had chosen to govern the conquered lands had indulged in corruption and misrule. Meanwhile certain antagonisms had developed against Alexander; in Greece, for instance, many decried his execution of Aristotle's nephew, the historian Callisthenes, and the Greek cities resented his request that they treat him as a god. Alexander's Macedonian officers balked at his attempt to force them to intermarry with the Persians (he had himself married Roxana, a Bactrian princess, as one of his several wives), and they resisted his Eastern ways and his vision of an empire governed by tolerance. There was a mutiny, but it was put down. In 323, Alexander was planning a voyage by sea around Arabia when he caught a fever and died at 33."
Hmm...
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channe@[url="http://cryoterrace.tripod.com"]cryoterrace[/url] | "Last one to kill a bad guy buys the beer." -lost in space
[This message has been edited by channe (edited March 04, 2002).]
