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This is regarding your post on Vanoye Aikens. I had the pleasure to knowing him. An amazingly talented dancer. He is in a lot more than five peplum films. I don't know what you have on your list but you can add to it Sodom and Gomorrah, Cleopatra, Joseph and His Brethren, and Barabbas. There maybe more I have forgotten.
Thanks. Yes, he's in more movies than I listed but his role in GOLIATH AND THE VAMPIRES and REVOLT OF THE SLAVES were big roles.The list includes BARABBAS, RAGE OF THE BUCCANEERS and CLEOPATRA among others.
In a later entry [3/9] you asked about muslim women warriors. I'm a history teacher. While I don't read Arabic, I do read Latin & Greek and did my graduate level historiography class on the Crusades [the instructor's subject, mine was classical Greece & Rome]. While there are several mentions of women warriors defending the camp during the early Islamic wars of conquest [c. late 700s AD] the only reference I know of during the Crusades [early on] was in Usāmah Ibn Munqidh's works. He mentions 2 that I remember but he was given to telling interesting tales and not always reliable. Few Arabic chronicles or memoirs of the Crusading period are available, most of those in French [as was Munqidh's]. He was a warrior in Egyptian [Fatimid - later Ayyubite] service.
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This is regarding your post on Vanoye Aikens. I had the pleasure to knowing him. An amazingly talented dancer. He is in a lot more than five peplum films. I don't know what you have on your list but you can add to it Sodom and Gomorrah, Cleopatra, Joseph and His Brethren, and Barabbas. There maybe more I have forgotten.
Thanks. Yes, he's in more movies than I listed but his role in GOLIATH AND THE VAMPIRES and REVOLT OF THE SLAVES were big roles.The list includes BARABBAS, RAGE OF THE BUCCANEERS and CLEOPATRA among others.
you can see A longer cut of Quo Vadis (2001) here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AadzqHZOJao&t=1496s
The director of Revolt of the Barbarians obviously had an underwear fetish.
In a later entry [3/9] you asked about muslim women warriors. I'm a history teacher. While I don't read Arabic, I do read Latin & Greek and did my graduate level historiography class on the Crusades [the instructor's subject, mine was classical Greece & Rome]. While there are several mentions of women warriors defending the camp during the early Islamic wars of conquest [c. late 700s AD] the only reference I know of during the Crusades [early on] was in Usāmah Ibn Munqidh's works. He mentions 2 that I remember but he was given to telling interesting tales and not always reliable. Few Arabic chronicles or memoirs of the Crusading period are available, most of those in French [as was Munqidh's]. He was a warrior in Egyptian [Fatimid - later Ayyubite] service.
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