Hi everyone!

[pankration]

Originally Posted by Αλέξανδρος ο' Μέγας

Thank you pankration, for what I see I'm confident that I will find myself very well here.

P.S.
I see you were an all around fighter...well I have on my shoulders 5 years of Aikido and Daito-Ryu, 3 of Ju-jutsu and 3 as an amateur boxer and I find your websites very interesting.
I didn't get it anyway, did you actually wrote an historical novel about a pankration practicer?

Interestingly enough I was teaching an MMA style of fighting (I called it Pankration as an honor to my Greek heritage) 25 years ago. I too boxed (and was hammered by a future world champion, he was only 12 and I was an adult).
My book is a novelization of two streams of history: Philip's assassination and the development of Dioxippus, the greatest pankratiatist of history. Read the free sample on my website for an introduction to the story.

[pankration]

I'm not sure what Morpheus is on about? Is there something I missed? There was no Greece as an entity that we would call a country today. Alexander and his father before him were kings of Macedonia, a Greek city state like Athens, Sparta or Thebes. Philip saw a need, for personal or nationalistic gain, to unite the fraticidal groups in geographic and cultural Greece. Some liked it; some didn't and a short war broke out. He won with his Greek allies against other Greeks. He became the leader of the Greek league but did not conquer Greece. Neither did Alexander. That is why the Hellenic culture spread so far so fast and so long: Greece was not taken over by Alexander or anyone else during his lifetime. And as a Greek Macedonian, his heart and brain were Hellenic. This is indisputable and has been for two thousand years. So what's your point Morpheus?

[Truth Bearer]

His official title was Alexander III Argois King of all Hellenes............