Talk:Siege of Tyre

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[edit] Dates in battle page names

I moved the page back to the original name. See Wikipedia:WikiProject Battles no need for date in name unless as a disambiguation.

If you wish the page name to include the year and it is not for disambiguation, please discuss it under Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Battles#Dates in battle page names --Philip Baird Shearer 10:48, 4 September 2005 (UTC)

This article in my opinion should be totally rewritten. The letter by Alexander to Darius should be removed, and the article should actually describe the siege of Tyre and what Alexander did.

Agreed. This is one of the most famous and, shall i be frank, interesting sieges in history, and thus warrants much more attention, especially to the various specific events that occured during the siege. The current article has nearly a paragraph on the actual siege, and the rest is a misplaced Wikisource article. the letter deserves a citation and a link, no more.

Finding this article severly lacking, i have taken the liberty of pasting in passages from an essay I am doing on the subject. it is not yet referenced or written to Wikipedia specifications, so any cleaning would help. --Ian

[edit] Dream

Isn't there a legend of Alexander dreaming of a satyros dancing? The dream interpreter took it as "sa Tyros", "Yours is Tyros", and Alexander decided to turn the island into a peninsula.