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    Quote Originally Posted by Cute Wolf View Post
    For me:
    1) GOD (he create everything you got... still a celebs until now!) / Including Jesus of course!
    If we're including gods then here's mine:

    1.) Zeus
    2.) Athena
    3.) Aphrodite
    4.) Prometheus
    5.) Ares...

    Ok I'l stop.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Rilder View Post
    If we're including gods then here's mine:

    1.) Zeus
    2.) Athena
    3.) Aphrodite
    4.) Prometheus
    5.) Ares...

    Ok I'l stop.
    more:
    1) Satan
    2) Lucifer
    3) Orcs
    4) Uruk-Hai
    5) Goblins

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    1) Satan
    2) Lucifer
    Are the same.
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    Default Re: Top 5 Ancient Celebrities

    Let's keep this on-topic, OK?

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    Religious figures are banned from this competition. Anyways, before 0 BCE monotheism was almost nonexistent...Judaism was very, very small and still is today (17 million worldwide isn't that much)
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    Cleopatra too...

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    Quote Originally Posted by gamegeek2 View Post
    Religious figures are banned from this competition. Anyways, before 0 BCE monotheism was almost nonexistent...Judaism was very, very small and still is today (17 million worldwide isn't that much)
    ZZZZZooooo-aster....? Dualistic but close enough to be closer to monotheistic as opposed to heno(sp?).

    Poor Persians culture recognition getting the shaft since the Muslim conquest.


    You have to count the somewhat monotheistic N. American cultures as well.
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    Default Re: Top 5 Ancient Celebrities

    And what does this have to do with the purpose of the thread?

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    1.Nebuchadnezzar
    2.Khufu
    3.Xenophon
    4.Darius the great
    5.Iphikrates
    6.Zalmoxis(don't know if he existed but some sources say he did)
    7.Vercingetorix
    8.Hanno the great
    9.

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    Default Re: Top 5 Ancient Celebrities

    1) Augustus Caesar, for ending the civil wars and crowning himself emperor
    2) Mithridates King of Pontus, for kicking the roman ass out of Asia minor
    3) Ariminus the Cheruscan, for doing the same in Germania
    4) Megas Alexandros, well he is Megas after all
    5) Cleopatra, for being the most sexy women in antiquity, or so they say
    6) Last but not least Jesus of Nazzareth, the son of God to those who belive, he sad let the last be
    the first, and love thy enemy.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Reno Melitensis View Post
    6) Last but not least Jesus of Nazzareth, the son of God to those who belive, he sad let the last be
    the first, and love thy enemy.

    Cheers.
    You haven't been watching the demotivater thread have you?
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    Wow how can you guys have forgotten the first real superstar of the ancient world? How about Hellen? You know the "face that launched a thousand ships"?

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    She was a dumb whore who was used as an excuse to take out trading competition in the Aegean.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Xurr View Post
    Wow how can you guys have forgotten the first real superstar of the ancient world? How about Hellen? You know the "face that launched a thousand ships"?
    If you count the sailors on those ships you could say she was the face that launched 50 Thousand Seamen.

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    50 Thousand Seamen
    Avoid sexual jokes please. Just saying. Was gonna make one but thought better.
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    Default Re: Top 5 Ancient Celebrities

    Quote Originally Posted by Xurr
    "face that launched a thousand ships"
    a vision of loveliness glimpsed through a nighmare of ruin and destruction

    Quote Originally Posted by Conradus
    Eh? :p
    Sorry, I'm blind and my dog is dead. And I'm sure somebody mentioned Achnaton too before.
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    1. Gaius Octavius Thurinius brilliant politican and reformer of the empire a complete mastermind.

    2. Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix - Brilliant strategist and reformer took the dictatorship and his last year of life he lived in lust and floods of wine until his death.

    Thats my list i wouldnt include Alexander for defeating persian rabble army and mountain clans isnt an achivement that great.

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