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Alexander III of Mecedon (20/21 July 356 BC – 11 June 323 BC), ordinarily known as Alexander the Not bad, was a king of the aboriginal Greek kingdom of Macedon. He succeeded his father Male monarch Philip II to the throne at the age of xx, and spent most of his ruling years conducting a lengthy armed services campaign throughout Southwest asia and Northeastern Africa. By the age of thirty, he had created one of the largest empires in history, stretching from Greece to northwestern Bharat. He was undefeated in battle and is widely considered to be one of history's greatest and most successful military commanders.

Quotes [edit]

• What an excellent horse do they lose, for want of address and boldness to manage him! ... I could manage this horse meliorate than others practice.
  • Statement upon seeing Bucephalas being led away as useless and beyond grooming, as quoted in Lives by Plutarch, equally translated by Arthur Hugh Clough

• Know ye not that the terminate and object of conquest is to avoid doing the same thing as the conquered?
  • As quoted in Lives by Plutarch, Seven, "Demosthenes and Cicero. Alexander and Caesar" (40.2), every bit translated past Bernadotte Perrin

• Holy shadows of the dead, I'm not to blame for your cruel and bitter fate, but the accursed rivalry which brought sister nations and blood brother people, to fight 1 another. I practice non experience happy for this victory of mine. On the reverse, I would exist glad, brothers, if I had all of you standing hither next to me, since we are united by the same linguistic communication, the aforementioned blood and the same visions.
  • Addressing the dead Hellenes (the Athenean and Thebean Greeks) of the Battle of Chaeronea, as quoted in Historiae Alexandri Magni by Quintus Curtius Rufus

• If I were not Alexander, I should wish to be Diogenes.
  • Afterward Diogenes of Sinope who was lying in the sun, responded to a query by Alexander request if he could exercise annihilation for him with a reply requesting that he end blocking his sunlight. Equally quoted in "On the Fortune of Alexander" by Plutarch, 332 a-b

• I exercise not steal victory.
  • Reply to the proposition by Parmenion, before the Boxing of Gaugamela, that he assail the Persian camp during the night, reported in Life of Alexander past Plutarch, every bit quoted in A History of Greece to the Death of Alexander the Great (1900) past John Bagnell Bury

• If it were not my purpose to combine barbarian things with things Hellenic, to traverse and civilize every continent, to search out the farthest parts of land and sea, to push the premises of Macedonia to the farthest Bounding main, and to disseminate and shower the blessings of the Hellenic justice and peace over every nation, I should non be content to sit quietly in the luxury of idle ability, simply I should emulate the frugality of Diogenes. But every bit things are, forgive me Diogenes, that I imitate Herakles, and emulate Perseus, and follow in the footsteps of Dionysos, the divine writer and progenitor of my family, and want that victorious Hellenes should trip the light fantastic again in India and revive the memory of the Bacchic revels among the roughshod mountain tribes across the Kaukasos...
  • Every bit quoted in "On the Fortune of Alexander" by Plutarch, 332 a-b

• Our enemies are Medes and Persians, men who for centuries have lived soft and luxurious lives; we of Macedon for generations past have been trained in the hard school of danger and war. Above all, nosotros are gratuitous men, and they are slaves. At that place are Greek troops, to be sure, in Persian service — merely how dissimilar is their cause from ours! They will be fighting for pay — and not much of at that; we, on the contrary, shall fight for Hellenic republic, and our hearts will exist in it. As for our foreign troops — Thracians, Paeonians, Illyrians, Agrianes — they are the best and stoutest soldiers in Europe, and they will find as their opponents the slackest and softest of the tribes of Asia. And what, finally, of the two men in supreme command? You have Alexander, they — Darius!
  • Addressing his troops prior to the Battle of Issus, as quoted in Anabasis Alexandri by Arrian Book Two, seven

• Your ancestors came to Macedonia and the rest of Hellas [Greece] and did u.s. great impairment, though we had done them no prior injury. I have been appointed leader of the Greeks, and wanting to punish the Persians I have come to Asia, which I took from you.
  • Alexander'southward letter to Western farsi king Darius III of Persia in response to a truce plea, equally quoted in Anabasis Alexandri by Arrian; translated every bit Anabasis of Alexander past P. A. Brunt, for the "Loeb Edition" Volume Two fourteen, 4

• So would I, if I were Parmenion.
  • As quoted in Lives past Plutarch, after Parmenion suggested to him subsequently the Battle of Issus that he should accept Darius Three of Persia's offer of an alliance, the hand of his girl in marriage, and all Pocket-sized Asia, saying "If I were Alexander, I would accept the terms" (Variant translation: I would have it if I were Alexander).
  • Variants: I besides, if I were Parmenion. But I am Alexander.
    So would I, if I were Parmenion.
    And then should I, if I were Parmenion.
    So should I, if I were Parmenion: but equally I am Alexander, I cannot.
    I would practice it if I was Parmenion, but I am Alexander.
    If I were Parmenion, that is what I would do. But I am Alexander and and so volition respond in another way.
    And then would I, if I were Parmenion, simply I am Alexander, and so I will send Darius a different answer.
    If I were Perdicas, I shall not fail to tell you lot, I would have endorsed this system at once, but I am Alexander, and I shall non practice it. (every bit quoted from medieval French romances in The Medieval French Alexander (2002) past Donald Maddox and Sara Sturm-Maddox, p. 81)

• Youths of the Pellaians and of the Macedonians and of the Hellenic Amphictiony and of the Lakedaimonians and of the Corinthians... and of all the Hellenic peoples, join your beau-soldiers and entrust yourselves to me, so that we tin can move against the barbarians and liberate ourselves from the Western farsi bondage, for every bit Greeks we should not be slaves to barbarians.
  • As quoted in the Historia Alexandri Magni of Pseudo-Kallisthenes, i.15.1-4

• Now you lot fear penalisation and beg for your lives, so I will let y'all costless, if not for any other reason so that you can see the deviation between a Greek king and a barbarian tyrant, so exercise not await to suffer whatsoever harm from me. A king does not kill messengers.
  • Equally quoted in the Historia Alexandri Magni of Pseudo-Kallisthenes, 1.37.ix-13

• Are you withal to learn that the end and perfection of our victories is to avert the vices and infirmities of those whom we subdue?
  • As quoted in Lives by Plutarch, as translated by Arthur Hugh Clough

• To the strongest!
  • After being asked, past his generals on his deathbed, who was to succeed him. It has been speculated that his vox may take been indistinct and that he may have said "Krateros" (the name of one of his generals), but Krateros was not around, and the others may take chosen to hear "Kratistos" — the strongest. Every bit quoted in The Mask of Jove: a history of Graeco-Roman civilization from the death of Alexander to the expiry of Constantine (1966) past Stringfellow Barr, p. half dozen

• There is nothing impossible to him who will try.
  • On taking charge of an assail on a fortress, in Pushing to the Front, or, Success under Difficulties : A Volume of Inspiration (1896) by Orison Swett Marden, p. 55

• I consider non what Parmenion should receive, merely what Alexander should give.
  • On his gifts for the services of others, equally quoted in Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, or Origin of Common Phrases, Allusions, and Words That Take A Tale To Tell (1905) by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer, p. 30
  • Variant: It is not what Parmenio should receive, but what Alexander should give.
  • quoted in Alexander : A History of the Origin and Growth of the Art of State of war from Primeval Times to the Battle Of Ipsus, B. C. 301 (1899) by Theodore Ayrault Contrivance

• Sex and sleep alone make me conscious that I am mortal.
  • As quoted in Alexander the Great (1973) by Robin Lane Fox
  • Unsourced variant : But sex and sleep brand me conscious that I am mortal.

• Shall I laissez passer past and exit you lying at that place because of the trek you led confronting Greece, or shall I set yous up once more because of your magnanimity and your virtues in other respects?
  • Pausing and addressing to a fallen statue of Xerxes the Great
  • Plutarch. The historic period of Alexander: nine Greek lives. Penguin, 1977. p. 294

• Dinocrates, I appreciate your design equally excellent in composition, and I am delighted with it, but I apprehend that anybody who should found a city in that spot would exist censured for bad judgement. For equally a newborn babe cannot be nourished without the nurse's milk, nor conducted to the approaches that atomic number 82 to growth in life, so a metropolis cannot thrive without fields and the fruits thereof pouring into its walls.
  • Vitruvius, De Architectura Bk. 2, Introduction, Sec. 3

• For my role, I assure you, I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.
  • Quoted by Plutarch in Life of Alexander from Plutarch'south Lives every bit translated by John Dryden (1683)

Disputed [edit]

An army of sheep, led past a lion, is better than an regular army of lions, led by a sheep.

• An army of sheep led by a lion is amend than an ground forces of lions led past a sheep.
  • Attributed to Alexander, as quoted in The British Battle Fleet: Its Inception and Growth Throughout the Centuries to the Present Day (1915) by Frederick Thomas Jane, simply many variants of similar statements exist which have been attributed to others, though in research done for Wikiquote definite citations of original documents take not yet been constitute for any of them:
  • I should prefer an ground forces of stags led by a lion, to an army of lions led by a stag.
    • Attributed to Chabrias, who died around the time Alexander was born, thus his is the earliest life to whom such assertions have been attributed; equally quoted in A Treatise on the Defence of Fortified Places (1814) by Lazare Carnot, p. 50
  • An ground forces of stags led by a lion would be ameliorate than an regular army of lions led by a stag.
    • Attributed to Chabrias, A History of Ireland (1857) by Thomas Mooney, p. 760
  • An regular army of stags led by a lion is superior to an army of lions led past a stag.
    • Attributed to Chabrias, The New American Cyclopaedia : A Popular Dictionary of Full general Noesis (1863), Vol. 4, p. 670
  • An regular army of sheep led by a lion are more to exist feared than an army of lions led past a sheep.
    • Attributed to Chabrias, The Older Nosotros Get, The Meliorate Nosotros Were, Marine Corps Sea Stories (2004) by Vince Crawley, p. 67
  • Information technology is better to take sheep led by a lion than lions led by a sheep.
    • Attributed to Polybius in Between Spenser and Swift: English Writing in Seventeenth Century Ireland (2005) by Deana Rankin, p. 124, citing A Contemporary History of Affairs in Ireland, from 1641 to 1652 (1880) by John Thomas Gilbert Vol. I, i, p. 153 - 157; but conceivably this might be reference to Polybius the historian quoting either Alexander or Chabrias.
  • An army composed of sheep merely led by a lion is more powerful than an ground forces of lions led by a sheep.
    • "Proverb" quoted past Agostino Nifo in De Regnandi Peritia (1523) every bit cited in Machiavelli - The Showtime Century: Studies in Enthusiasm, Hostility, and Irrelevance (2005) past Mathew Thomson, p. 55
  • Greater is an army of sheep led by a panthera leo, than an army of lions led past a sheep.
    • Attributed to Daniel Defoe (c. 1659 - 1731)
  • I am more afraid of one hundred sheep led past a king of beasts than i hundred lions led by a sheep.
    • Attributed to Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (1754 – 1838) Variants: I am more afraid of an regular army of 100 sheep led by a king of beasts than an ground forces of 100 lions led past a sheep.
      I am not afraid of an army of ane hundred lions led by a sheep. I am afraid of ground forces of 100 sheeps led past a lion.
  • Variants quoted as an anonymous maxim:
    Ameliorate a herd of sheep led past a lion than a herd of lions led by a sheep.
    A flock of sheep led by a lion was more powerful than a flock of lions led by a sheep.
    An ground forces of sheep led by a king of beasts would defeat an army of lions led by a sheep.
    It were better to take an army of sheep led by a panthera leo than an army of lions led past a sheep.
    An army of sheep led past a lion, will defeat an army of lions led by a sheep.
    An army of sheep led past a lion would be superior to an regular army of lions led by a sheep.
    Unsourced attribution to Alexander: I would non fearfulness a pack of lions led past a sheep, but I would ever fearfulness a flock of sheep led past a panthera leo.
  • As one panthera leo overcomes many people and equally 1 wolf scatters many sheep, and so too volition I, with one word, destroy the peoples who have come against me.
    • This slightly similar statement is the only quote relating to lions in The History of Alexander the Peachy, Beingness the Syriac Version of the Pseudo-Callisthenes (1889) every bit translated by Due east. A. Wallis Budge, only it is attributed to Nectanebus (Nectanebo 2).

• There are no more worlds to conquer!
  • Statement portrayed as a quotation in a 1927 Reader's Digest commodity, this probably derives from traditions about Alexander lamenting at his male parent Philip's victories that there would exist no conquests left for him, or that after his conquests in Arab republic of egypt and Asia there were no worlds left to conquer.
  • Some of the oldest accounts of this, as quoted by John Calvin state that on "hearing that there were other worlds, wept that he had not yet conquered one."
  • This may originate from Plutarch's essay On the Tranquility of Mind, office of the essays Moralia: Alexander wept when he heard Anaxarchus soapbox about an infinite number of worlds, and when his friends inquired what ailed him, "Is it not worthy of tears," he said, "that, when the number of worlds is infinite, we have not yet become lords of a single ane?" ^[1]
  • There are no more other worlds to conquer!
    • Variant attributed as his "final words" at a few sites on the internet, only in no published sources.

Quotes about Alexander [edit]

It is better to believe in men too rashly, and regret, than believe too meanly. Men could be more than than they are, if they would try for it. He has shown them that. … Those who wait in flesh only for their own littleness, and make them believe in that, kill more than he ever will in all his wars. ~ Mary Renault

• What is the purpose of adventuring effectually the world? A male monarch must be an ambassador. ... Alexander was a man full of dandy sound, lighting, and thunderbolt; [he was] similar a cloud in spring or summer, which passed over the kings of the earth, rained upon them, and disappeared—indeed a summer's cloud disappears very soon [saying italicized].
  • Abu'fifty-Fazl Bayhaqi, Tarikh-i Bayhaqi, Book Six, edited by Ali-Akbar Fayyaz, pages 118-119; in context of praising the Ghaznavid kings

• Alexander sacrificed to the gods to whom information technology was his custom to sacrifice, and gave a public feast, seated all the Persians, and then any persons from the other peoples who took precedence for rank or any other high quality, and he himself and those effectually him drank from the same bowl and poured the same libations, with the Greek soothsayers and Magi initiating the anniversary. Alexander prayed for various blessings and especially that the Macedonians and Persians should bask harmony as partners in government. The story prevails that those who shared the banquet were nine chiliad and that they all poured the aforementioned libation and gave the i victory cry as they did.
  • Arrian in Anabasis Alexandri, 7.2.6-9

• [Diogenes speaking to Alexander] "At present perhaps you kings are also doing something similar that: each of you has playmates — the eager followers on his side — he [Darius] his Persians and the other peoples of Asia, and you [Alexander] your Macedonians and the other Greeks."
  • Dio Chrysostom, "Orationes", 4.48

• "Demades said that Xerxes fortified the ocean with his ships, covered the state with his armies, concealed the heaven with his weapons, and filled Persia with Greek prisoners. And now justly the barbarian is praised past Athenians because he took captive Greeks, but Alexander, a Greek, and leading Greeks, did not take captive those arrayed confronting him.[...]No one of the Greek kings went to Egypt except Alexander alone, and he went, not to brand state of war, but to consult an oracle every bit to where he should found a metropolis which would forever bear his name.[...]So Alexander was the kickoff of the Greeks to accept Egypt, and so became the start both of Greeks and of barbarians."
  • Historia Alexandri Magni of Pseudo-Kallisthenes, ii.4

• Remota itaque iustitia quid sunt regna nisi magna latrocinia? [...] Eleganter enim et ueraciter Alexandro illi Magno quidam comprehensus pirata respondit. Nam cum idem rex hominem interrogaret, quid ei uideretur, ut mare haberet infestum, ille libera contumacia: Quod tibi, inquit, ut orbem terrarum; sed quia <id> ego exiguo nauigio facio, latro uocor; quia tu magna classe, imperator.
  • Justice being taken abroad, then, what are kingdoms but great robberies? ... Indeed, that was an apt and true reply which was given to Alexander the Dandy by a pirate who had been seized. For when that king had asked the homo what he meant by keeping hostile possession of the sea, he answered with bold pride, "What k meanest by seizing the whole world; but because I do it with a petty ship, I am called a robber, whilst thou who dost it with a great armada art styled emperor."
    • Augustine of Hippo, The City of God, Volume IV, Ch. 4

• After fighting, scheming and murdering in pursuit of the secure tenure of absolute power, he establish himself at last on a lonely height over an abyss, with no use for his power and security unattainable. His genius was such that he ended an epoch and began another - but one of unceasing war and misery, from which exhaustion produced an approach to order after two generations and peace at last under the Roman Empire. He himself never found peace. Ane is tempted to see him, in medieval terms, as the man who sold his soul to the Devil for power: the Devil kept his office of the bargain only ultimately claimed his own. But to the historian, prosaically such apologue, we must put it differently: to him, when he has done all the work - work that must be done, and washed carefully - of analysing the play of faction and the system of government, Alexander illustrates with startling clarity the ultimate loneliness of supreme power.
  • Ernst Badian, Studies in Greek and Roman History, Alexander the Bully and the Loneliness of Power, 1964 p. 204

• Alexander the Bang-up, reflecting on his friends degenerating into sloth and luxury, told them that it was a most slavish thing to luxuriate, and a most purple matter to labour.
  • Isaac Barrow, in "Sermon 51 : Of Manufacture in General", in Sermons on Various Subjects (1823), Vol. 3. p. 33

• The ancient writers tell of the peculiar "melting" glance of his eyes, or of the manner in which, as Plutarch says, his body seemed to glow. They are evidently trying to describe something which they establish it difficult to limited. He likewise grew up, to the delight of Philip, serious-minded, untiring, passionately keen to succeed in whatsoever difficult task, and however more great the more difficult information technology was.
  He was a great reader, as well. He had been early on caught by the glamour of the Tale of Troy, like most Greek boys; and he never grew weary of it. As far as the Oxus and the Indus, he carried with him his personal re-create of the Iliad...
  • A. R. Fire, in Alexander the Swell and the Hellenistic Empire (1948), p. eleven

• When he says that in that day all his thoughts perish, or flow abroad, perhaps under this expression he censures the madness of princes in setting no bounds to their hopes and desires, and scaling the very heavens in their ambition, like the insane Alexander of Macedon, who, upon hearing that there were other worlds, wept that he had not even so conquered one, although soon after the funeral urn sufficed him.
  • John Calvin, in his interpretation of Psalm 146 in On The Book Of Psalms (1557) as translated past Rev. James Anderson (1849)

• Having just that one hope, the accomplishment of it, of consequence, must put an end to all my hopes; and what a wretch is he who must survive his hopes! Zilch remains when that mean solar day comes, but to sit and weep like Alexander, when he wanted other worlds to conquer.
  • William Congreve, in words for the character Fainall in Way of the Earth (1700)
  • Variants on this theme:
  • And then he sat downwardly and wept considering there were not other worlds for him to conquer.
    • James Baldwin's Thirty More Famous Stories Retold (1905)
  • He cried considering there were no more worlds to conquer.
    • Twilight Zone episode "Of Late I Think of Cliffordville" (1963)
  • And when Alexander saw the breadth of his domain, he wept, for there were no more worlds to conquer.
    • "Hans Gruber" in Die Hard (1988); this is sometimes mistaken as a quote from more than ancient sources; Hans claims it is from Plutarch, who wrote Life of Alexander. While ancient sources record that Alexander sat and wept because he had conquered the known world, the actual wording of this quote is the same every bit the Twilight Zone episode "Of Late I Think of Cliffordville" (1963).

• Of the life of Alexander we accept v consecutive narratives...Here, it might, he thought, are authorities plenty; hut unluckily, amongst all the five, at that place is not a unmarried gimmicky chronicler. All 5 write at secondhand, ... Diodorus we believe to exist perfectly honest, but he is, at the same time, impenetrably stupid. Plutarch, as he himself tells us, does not write history... his object is to recount anecdotes, rather to point a moral than to give a formal narrative of political and war machine events. Justin is a feeble and careless epitomizer. Quintus Curtius is, in our eyes, niggling better than a romance-writer; he is the only i of the five whom we should doubtable of any wilful departure from the truth.
  • Freedman, Historical Essays, [ii], quoted in Devahuti, D., & Indian History and Civilisation Order. (1980). Bias in Indian historiography. Delhi: D.K. Publications. p. 84

• We must remember too that Philip and Alexander were Greeks, descended from Heracles, wished to be recognised every bit Greeks, as benefactors of the Greeks, even as Heracles had been.
  • N. G. 50. Hammond, British scholar and good on Macedon, Alexander the Great: King, Commander and Statesman, p. 257

• After Philip'south assassination at Aegae in 336, Alexander inherited, together with the Macedonian kingdom, his father's Panhellenic project to lead the Greeks in the conquest of Persia.
  • Waldemar Heckel, Lawrence A. Tritle, Alexander the Great: A New History, Wiley-Blackwell, 2009, p.99

• Dhu al-Qarnain is Alexander the Greek, the king of Persia and Greece, or the rex of the e and the west, for because of this he was called Dhul-Qarnayn [meaning, "the ii-horned one"]...
  • Ibn Hisham, in a notation on the Qur'an; see also Alexander the Great in the Qur'an

• We are non in the situation of poor Alexander the Smashing, who wept, equally well indeed he might, because there were no more worlds to conquer; for, to practice justice to this queer, odd, rantipole city, and this whimsical country, at that place is matter enough in them to keep our risible muscles and our pens going until doomsday.
  • Washington Irving in Salmagundi : Or, The Whim-whams and Opinions of Launcelot Langstaff, Esq. and Others (1835)

• In the due east the mean solar day was reddening,
  When the warriors pass'd;
  In the west the dark was deadening,
  Every bit they looked their last;
  As they looked their last on him —
  He, their comrade — their commander
  He, the world'due south adored —
  He, the godlike Alexander !
  Who can wield his sword ?
  Equally they went their optics were dim,
  The silver-shielded warriors,
  The warriors of the world !
  • Letitia Elizabeth Landon, "The Death-Bed of Alexander the Great", The New Monthly Magazine, Volume 45, Part 3 (1835), p. 303

• The only human being being with whom I felt whatsoever kinship died three hundred years earlier the birth of Christ. Alexander of Macedonia. I idolized him. A immature army commander, he'd swept along the coasts of Turkey and Phoenicia, subduing Egypt before turning his armies towards Persia. He died, thirty-three, ruling most of the civilized globe. Ruling without barbarism! At Alexandria, he instituted the aboriginal world's greatest seat of learning. True, people died ... perhaps unnecessarily, though who tin can estimate such things? However how he nearly approached his vision of a united earth! I was determined to measure my success against his. Firstly, I gave abroad my inheritance. to demonstrate the possibility of achieving anything starting from nothing. Side by side, I departed for Northern Turkey, to retrace my hero's steps. I wanted to match his accomplishment, bringing an historic period of illumination to a benighted world. Heh. I wanted to have something to say should we meet in the hall of legends. I followed the path of Alexander's war machine along the black sea coast, imagining his armies taking port later on port, claret on ancient statuary. Perhaps because of the challenge it represented: the ancient earth's greatest puzzle was at that place, a knot that couldn't be untied. Alexander cut it in two with his sword. Lateral thinking, you see. Centuries ahead of his fourth dimension. Heading due south, he entered Egypt through Memphis, where they proclaimed him son of Amon, guess of the expressionless, whose name means "hidden i." Nether rule from Alexandria, the classic culture of the peachy Pharaohs was restored. I followed him through Babylon, up through Kabul to Samarkhand and so down the Indus, where he met the first elephants of war. Where he'd turned back to quell dissent at dwelling, I travelled on, through China and Tibet, gathering martial wisdom as I went. Alexander returned to Babylon to die of an infection, aged thirty-3, amongst its ruined ziggurats. I saw at concluding his failings. He'd not united all the earth, nor built a unity that would survive him. Disillusioned, but determined, to complete my odyssey, I followed his corpse to its resting place in Alexandria.
  • Alan Moore for the graphic symbol Adrian Veidt/Ozymandias, Watchmen, #11, August 1987, p. ten-thirteen.

• I have wrestled with Thanatos knee to knee and I know how decease is vanquished. Human'due south immortality is not to live forever; for that wish is built-in of fear. Each moment free from fear makes a human being immortal.
  • Mary Renault's portrayal of Alexander in Fire from Heaven (1969)

• It is better to believe in men too rashly, and regret, than believe too meanly. Men could be more than than they are, if they would try for it. He has shown them that. How many have tried, because of him? Non simply those I take seen; there will be men to come. Those who wait in mankind only for their ain littleness, and make them believe in that, impale more than than he e'er will in all his wars.
  • Mary Renault, The Persian Male child (1972)

• When magic through fretfulness and reason passes, imagination, force, and passion will thunder. The portrait of the world is changed.
  • Dejan Stojanovic in Circling, "Alexander the Great" (Sequence: "A Warden with No Keys") (1993)

• Once upon a time, in days of long agone, Alexander the Great complained bitterly that there were no worlds left for him to conquer.
  • Alfred Wainwright, A Pennine Journey : The Story of a Long Walk in 1938 (1986), p. 1

• Once upon a time, Aristotle taught Alexander that he should restrain himself from ofttimes approaching his wife, who was very cute, lest he should impede his spirit from seeking the general good. Alexander acquiesed to him. The queen, when she perceived this and was upset, began to draw Aristotle to love her. Many times she crossed paths with him alone, with bare anxiety and disheveled hair, so that she might entice him.
  At last, beingness enticed, he began to solicit her carnally. She says,
  "This I will certainly not do, unless I see a sign of love, lest y'all be testing me. Therefore, come up to my bedchamber crawling on hand and foot, in order to carry me similar a horse. And so I'll know that you aren't deluding me."
  When he had consented to that status, she secretly told the matter to Alexander, who lying in wait apprehended him conveying the queen. When Alexander wished to impale Aristotle, in order to excuse himself, Aristotle says,
  If thus information technology happened to me, an old human well-nigh wise, that I was deceived past a woman, you can run into that I taught you well, that it could happen to you, a young man."
  Hearing that, the king spared him, and fabricated progress in Aristotle's teachings.
  • Bearding, Phyllis and Aristotle.

References [edit]

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External links [edit]

Master sources

• Alexander the Neat: An annotated listing of primary sources from Livius.org
• Wiki Classical Dictionary, extant sources and bitty and lost sources
• Plutarch, Life of Alexander (in English language)
• Justin, Prototype of the Philippic History of Pompeius Trogus (in English)
• Plutarch, Of the Fortune or Virtue of Alexander the Groovy (in English)
• Quintus Curtius Rufus, Histories of Alexander (in Latin)

Projects

• Alexander the Nifty on the Web, a comprehensive directory of some one,000 sites
• Livius Project articles on Alexander by Jona Lendering
• Pothos.org: Alexander's Home on the Spider web
• Wiki Classical Dictionary: Category Alexander the Smashing, a Mediawiki based project, with stricter guidelines and editors

Discussion

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