Talk:Cleophis
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Bedfore placing non-sensical templates in this article, come and discuss its relevance with reference to this article. This is vandalism.
Sze cavalry01 18:58, 23 September 2006 (UTC)
We cordially invite those who still believe in Alexander-Cleophis intrigue to come forward and discuss in this talk page the issue so that one may know reality vs phantasy in the classical accounts.
KLS
Wait, wait, wait... a Republic!?
[edit] Article really needs to have the amount of POV reduced
I know nothing about the subject of the article, but I was immediately struck by how non-neutral the article is. Rather than presenting information, this article engages in overt advocacy. Some examples:
- "...the story rather seems to be baseless and not more than a romantic invention"
- "Curtius is not more than a romantic story teller who can easily loose track and stray from truth"
- "We must dismiss from our mind the notion that the statements of classical writers have any special claims to be recognised as true or authentic"
- "...romantic concotions and indulgences which the weak and careless classical intellectual-pimps like Justin have stamped as if they were authentic" (my emphasis added)
- Sections like - "Unproven and false allegation"; "Cleophis was innocent"
It's one thing to quote critical sources, but it's another thing to overtly take positions in an article. I don't feel I have enough knowledge in this area to properly edit this article, but the POV really needs to be toned down. The pimp reference is the clearest, so I will remove that. I hope other editors of this article will help clean it up. -Kubigula (ave) 04:57, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
