Location. The Alexander The Great Beach Hotel is located in Paphos, Cyprus, on a blue ... more
flag beach. It is one kilometre from the old harbour and town centre, and one kilometre from the Aphrodite Water Park. Paphos Airport is 15 kilometres distance. H...
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Price is per double room per night and may vary depending on date booked...
Location.The Alexander The Great Beach Hotel is located in Paphos, Cyprus, on a blue flag ... more
beach. It is one kilometre from the old harbour and town centre, and one kilometre from the Aphrodite Water Park. Paphos Airport is 15 kilometres distance. Hote...
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Price is per double room per night and may vary depending on date booked...
Advantages: Charming combination of the old and the new give this resort something for everyone. Disadvantages: Heat oppressive at height of summer. Some areas rather loud and built up
had now cooled down as the previous week had been even hotter!
~*~ A BRIEF HISTORY OF PAPHOS ~*~
The history of Cyprus goes back at least 10,000 years and there are a huge number of ancient monuments and sites throughout the island. Alexander the Great and St Paul both played their parts in shaping the Cyprus of today. However, the best known figure from the past is Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love and beauty, who made her home in Paphos itself, after allegedly emerging from the seas nearby. Alexander the Great and his successors, the Ptolemies, also made their home in Paphos, making it the capital of Cyprus due its very busy and thriving port area. It remained the capital for seven further centuries, even when the Romans took over. The Roman Governor of the island Sergius Paulus was converted to Christianity by St Paul ...
Bollinger28 15.09.2007
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: exceptional Review of Paphos (Cyprus)
Advantages: Good story, Loads of factual information Disadvantages: Nearly 3 hours long!
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Story:
Alexander follows the true story of Macedonian conquerer Alexander the great and his rise to power over the Persian army which led him famously to controling 90% of the known world with an empire that spread 22,000 miles all the way from Greece to India before the age of 25. The story begins as Alexanders father king Philip is murdered leaving Alexander to take the throne at the young age of 20 and continue in his fathers crusade to crush the persian army.
His first battle is with the mighty Darius commander of the Persian army and the man Alexander suspects of funding his fathers murder, Though being greatly outnumbered with his 40,000 troops to the 200,000 strong Persian slave army he rises to victory and forces Darius into exile proving he has his fathers leadership skills and winning over his army's loyalty ...
Advantages: great story telling, great pictures Disadvantages: probably too light for the serious student
Michael Wood is the everyman of history in the media; casual and charismatic, TV friendly and a fantastic story teller. The book is a companion to the TV series as is the usual format for Woods work.
To travel the path taken by Alexander the Great is no small undertaking. The research alone to re-kindle footsteps taken over 2000 years ago is an admirable project, to actually re-travel the route is an amazing task which can not fail to make a great story. The book works on two levels. At the same time as explaining the reasons and routes behind Alexanders advance, Wood is able to look for evidence still visable in the modern landscape. From buildiings and physical geography to stories still told and the people themselves help bring the story to life and turn the dusty pages of history into a beautiful joining of past and present ...
