Porus ki bewdi behan...Roxana, Barsine two queens and difference. - Page 4

Originally posted by: sashashyam

Surbhi,

Do read the whole thread, including my posts. Now I do not know if all the material collected by LuckySnow - who regularly digs up fascinating material from assorted sources - from the Alexander Romance and a three part book on Alexander is true or not, or if it is partially true.

I don't think he knows that either, he cannot. No one can but a serious scholar of the period with access to an extensive library, and I have no claims to be any such.

There are so many sensational stories about Roxanne, and as there is very little about her in the reliable contemporary chronicles, these kinds of scandal sheets take over.

I am sure she was not at all what you would call a good person, but whether she was like this, I have no idea. I have not researched her life from serious sources, so I simply do not know. But you should not go by every sensational story you come across. As I have said in my first post, probably on page 1 of this thread, you have to rate sources for credibility before you use the information they convey.

The Alexander Romance is part true accounts and part imaginary ones. You cannot accept all that it says as the gospel truth.

I was horrified by this version of a monstrous Roxanne, so I tried to pin down the sources, and see how reliable they are. They aren't. This is not to say that some of it can't be true. It can. But one cannot take the whole as fact. That is all as far as I am concerned.

Again, you have to be careful to maintain the distinction between the real characters and the Sony ones, which you had forgotten when you were referring to the Sony Barsine. Just a suggestion!

Shyamala Di

Originally posted by: luckySnow

Yetrue there are more than 30000 books on Alexander and most of them has Roxane in them...all these things I have only read and heard over the time about her..Could be true and could be fables only... most of these things I read from maximo books who is a good historian because in Alexander romance she is not very bad.greek sources about her are well not in her favour because they hated her...

Originally posted by: sashashyam

See, my dear boy, I know by now that you are very conscientious and you have done a lot of reading about Alexander. But most folks here have not. They have only a vague notion of the period, the events and the characters.

They are thus likely to take anything you put out, especially such sensational stuff, as the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. Which is not correct, is it? So their perceptions of Roxanne, Alexander and all the rest get set in stone. Then youj cannot change them post facto by saying that you were not 100% sure of your material, which you are not.

This disturbs me. So I would request you to add disclaimers and rate your sources before you write such articles for this forum. You owe it to yourself more than anyone else. If I did not take you seriously, I would not bother with these homilies, but I do. And so should you.

Shyamala Aunty

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