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Alexander III of Mecedon (twenty/21 July 356 BC – 11 June 323 BC), commonly known as Alexander the Keen, was a rex of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon. He succeeded his father King Philip Ii to the throne at the age of 20, and spent nearly of his ruling years conducting a lengthy armed services campaign throughout Western Asia and Northeastern Africa. Past the age of thirty, he had created one of the largest empires in history, stretching from Greece to northwestern India. He was undefeated in battle and is widely considered to be one of history's greatest and nigh successful armed forces commanders.

Quotes [edit]

• What an excellent horse do they lose, for desire of address and boldness to manage him! ... I could manage this horse better than others do.
  • Statement upon seeing Bucephalas being led abroad every bit useless and across training, as quoted in Lives by Plutarch, as translated by Arthur Hugh Clough

• Know ye non that the end and object of conquest is to avoid doing the same thing every bit the conquered?
  • Every bit quoted in Lives by Plutarch, Seven, "Demosthenes and Cicero. Alexander and Caesar" (40.two), as translated by Bernadotte Perrin

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

• If I were non Alexander, I should wish to exist Diogenes.
  • Afterward Diogenes of Sinope who was lying in the sun, responded to a query by Alexander asking if he could practice anything for him with a reply requesting that he stop blocking his sunlight. As quoted in "On the Fortune of Alexander" past Plutarch, 332 a-b

• I do not steal victory.
  • Reply to the proffer by Parmenion, before the Battle of Gaugamela, that he attack the Western farsi campsite during the night, reported in Life of Alexander by Plutarch, as quoted in A History of Greece to the Death of Alexander the Great (1900) by John Bagnell Coffin

• If information technology were not my purpose to combine barbarian things with things Hellenic, to traverse and civilize every continent, to search out the farthest parts of state and ocean, to push the bounds of Macedonia to the uttermost Ocean, and to disseminate and shower the blessings of the Hellenic justice and peace over every nation, I should not be content to sit quietly in the luxury of idle power, but I should emulate the frugality of Diogenes. Simply as things are, forgive me Diogenes, that I imitate Herakles, and emulate Perseus, and follow in the footsteps of Dionysos, the divine author and progenitor of my family, and desire that victorious Hellenes should dance once more in India and revive the retention of the Bacchic revels among the vicious mountain tribes beyond the Kaukasos...
  • Equally quoted in "On the Fortune of Alexander" past Plutarch, 332 a-b

• Our enemies are Medes and Persians, men who for centuries accept lived soft and luxurious lives; we of Macedon for generations past have been trained in the hard school of danger and state of war. Above all, we are gratis men, and they are slaves. There are Greek troops, to be sure, in Persian service — but how dissimilar is their cause from ours! They will exist fighting for pay — and not much of at that; we, on the contrary, shall fight for Hellenic republic, and our hearts will be in information technology. Every bit 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 Boxing of Issus, as quoted in Anabasis Alexandri by Arrian Book Two, seven

• Your ancestors came to Macedonia and the residual of Hellas [Greece] and did the states bang-up harm, though we had done them no prior injury. I take been appointed leader of the Greeks, and wanting to punish the Persians I have come to Asia, which I took from you.
  • Alexander'south letter of the alphabet to Persian male monarch Darius III of Persia in response to a truce plea, equally quoted in Anabasis Alexandri by Arrian; translated as Anabasis of Alexander by P. A. Brunt, for the "Loeb Edition" Book II 14, 4

• And so would I, if I were Parmenion.
  • Every bit quoted in Lives by Plutarch, afterward Parmenion suggested to him after the Battle of Issus that he should take Darius III of Persia's offer of an alliance, the hand of his girl in marriage, and all Small Asia, saying "If I were Alexander, I would accept the terms" (Variant translation: I would accept it if I were Alexander).
  • Variants: I too, if I were Parmenion. But I am Alexander.
    So would I, if I were Parmenion.
    So should I, if I were Parmenion.
    So should I, if I were Parmenion: merely every bit I am Alexander, I cannot.
    I would do it if I was Parmenion, only I am Alexander.
    If I were Parmenion, that is what I would do. But I am Alexander and then will answer in another way.
    So would I, if I were Parmenion, but I am Alexander, so I will ship Darius a different respond.
    If I were Perdicas, I shall not fail to tell you, I would have endorsed this arrangement at once, only I am Alexander, and I shall non do it. (equally quoted from medieval French romances in The Medieval French Alexander (2002) by 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, bring together your fellow-soldiers and entrust yourselves to me, and so that we tin move against the barbarians and liberate ourselves from the Persian bondage, for as Greeks we should not exist slaves to barbarians.
  • Every bit quoted in the Historia Alexandri Magni of Pseudo-Kallisthenes, ane.15.i-4

• At present you fear punishment and beg for your lives, so I will let yous complimentary, if not for whatever other reason and then that y'all can come across the departure between a Greek king and a barbarian tyrant, then practise not expect to endure whatsoever harm from me. A king does not kill messengers.
  • Equally quoted in the Historia Alexandri Magni of Pseudo-Kallisthenes, one.37.ix-13

• Are you however to learn that the finish and perfection of our victories is to avoid the vices and infirmities of those whom we subdue?
  • As quoted in Lives by Plutarch, every bit translated past Arthur Hugh Clough

• To the strongest!
  • Afterwards being asked, by 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 proper noun of one of his generals), but Krateros was not effectually, and the others may have chosen to hear "Kratistos" — the strongest. As quoted in The Mask of Jove: a history of Graeco-Roman civilisation from the death of Alexander to the death of Constantine (1966) by Stringfellow Barr, p. 6

• There is zilch impossible to him who will endeavour.
  • On taking charge of an assault on a fortress, in Pushing to the Front end, or, Success under Difficulties : A Book of Inspiration (1896) by Orison Swett Marden, p. 55

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

• Sexual activity and sleep lone make me conscious that I am mortal.
  • As quoted in Alexander the Great (1973) by Robin Lane Play a joke on
  • Unsourced variant : Simply sex and sleep make me conscious that I am mortal.

• Shall I pass past and go out you lot lying in that location because of the expedition yous led confronting Greece, or shall I fix you upwards again considering of your magnanimity and your virtues in other respects?
  • Pausing and addressing to a fallen statue of Xerxes the Cracking
  • Plutarch. The age of Alexander: ix Greek lives. Penguin, 1977. p. 294

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

• For my office, I assure you, I had rather excel others in the cognition of what is excellent, than in the extent of my ability and dominion.
  • Quoted by Plutarch in Life of Alexander from Plutarch'due south Lives as translated by John Dryden (1683)

Disputed [edit]

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

• An army of sheep led by a king of beasts is better 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) past Frederick Thomas Jane, merely many variants of like statements exist which accept been attributed to others, though in enquiry done for Wikiquote definite citations of original documents have non still been plant for whatever of them:
  • I should prefer an army of stags led by a lion, to an army of lions led by a stag.
    • Attributed to Chabrias, who died around the fourth dimension Alexander was born, thus his is the earliest life to whom such assertions have been attributed; every bit quoted in A Treatise on the Defence of Fortified Places (1814) past Lazare Carnot, p. 50
  • An ground forces of stags led by a lion would be better than an regular army of lions led by a stag.
    • Attributed to Chabrias, A History of Ireland (1857) past Thomas Mooney, p. 760
  • An ground forces of stags led past a lion is superior to an army of lions led by a stag.
    • Attributed to Chabrias, The New American Cyclopaedia : A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge (1863), Vol. four, p. 670
  • An army of sheep led past a lion are more to be feared than an army of lions led by a sheep.
    • Attributed to Chabrias, The Older We Get, The Ameliorate We Were, Marine Corps Bounding main Stories (2004) by Vince Crawley, p. 67
  • It is better to have 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 past a king of beasts is more powerful than an army of lions led past a sheep.
    • "Proverb" quoted by Agostino Nifo in De Regnandi Peritia (1523) every bit cited in Machiavelli - The First Century: Studies in Enthusiasm, Hostility, and Irrelevance (2005) by Mathew Thomson, p. 55
  • Greater is an ground forces of sheep led by a lion, than an ground forces of lions led by a sheep.
    • Attributed to Daniel Defoe (c. 1659 - 1731)
  • I am more afraid of i hundred sheep led by a lion than 1 hundred lions led past a sheep.
    • Attributed to Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (1754 – 1838) Variants: I am more than afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep.
      I am not afraid of an army of one hundred lions led by a sheep. I am afraid of army of 100 sheeps led by a king of beasts.
  • Variants quoted every bit an anonymous proverb:
    Meliorate a herd of sheep led past a king of beasts 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 army of sheep led by a panthera leo would defeat an army of lions led by a sheep.
    It were better to take an army of sheep led past a lion than an ground forces of lions led by a sheep.
    An army of sheep led by a lion, will defeat an army of lions led past a sheep.
    An ground forces of sheep led by a king of beasts would be superior to an regular army of lions led by a sheep.
    Unsourced attribution to Alexander: I would non fear a pack of lions led by a sheep, only I would always fear a flock of sheep led past a lion.
  • Equally one lion overcomes many people and as i wolf scatters many sheep, and then likewise will I, with one discussion, destroy the peoples who accept come against me.
    • This slightly similar statement is the just quote relating to lions in The History of Alexander the Great, Beingness the Syriac Version of the Pseudo-Callisthenes (1889) as translated by E. A. Wallis Budge, but information technology is attributed to Nectanebus (Nectanebo II).

• There are no more than worlds to conquer!
  • Statement portrayed as a quotation in a 1927 Reader's Digest article, this probably derives from traditions about Alexander lamenting at his father Philip's victories that in that location would be no conquests left for him, or that after his conquests in Egypt and Asia in that location were no worlds left to conquer.
  • Some of the oldest accounts of this, equally 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 Tranquillity of Heed, part of the essays Moralia: Alexander wept when he heard Anaxarchus discourse nearly 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 space, we have non nonetheless become lords of a single one?" ^[1]
  • There are no more other worlds to conquer!
    • Variant attributed as his "last words" at a few sites on the internet, but in no published sources.

Quotes about Alexander [edit]

It is better to believe in men likewise rashly, and regret, than believe also meanly. Men could be more than they are, if they would try for it. He has shown them that. … Those who look in mankind only for their own littleness, and brand them believe in that, impale more than he e'er volition in all his wars. ~ Mary Renault

• What is the purpose of adventuring around the world? A king must be an administrator. ... Alexander was a human being full of neat audio, lighting, and thunderbolt; [he was] like a deject 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 [proverb italicized].
  • Abu'50-Fazl Bayhaqi, Tarikh-i Bayhaqi, Book Half-dozen, edited by Ali-Akbar Fayyaz, pages 118-119; in context of praising the Ghaznavid kings

• Alexander sacrificed to the gods to whom it was his custom to cede, and gave a public banquet, seated all the Persians, so any persons from the other peoples who took precedence for rank or any other high quality, and he himself and those around him drank from the same basin and poured the same libations, with the Greek soothsayers and Magi initiating the ceremony. Alexander prayed for various blessings and particularly that the Macedonians and Persians should savor harmony equally partners in regime. The story prevails that those who shared the banquet were 9 thousand and that they all poured the same libation and gave the one victory weep every bit they did.
  • Arrian in Anabasis Alexandri, 7.two.six-ix

• [Diogenes speaking to Alexander] "Now peradventure you kings are likewise doing something like 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 sea with his ships, covered the land 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 convict those arrayed against him.[...]No ane of the Greek kings went to Egypt except Alexander alone, and he went, not to make state of war, but to consult an oracle equally to where he should found a metropolis which would forever bear his name.[...]So Alexander was the first of the Greeks to take Arab republic of egypt, so became the first both of Greeks and of barbarians."
  • Historia Alexandri Magni of Pseudo-Kallisthenes, 2.4

• 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 groovy robberies? ... Indeed, that was an apt and true answer which was given to Alexander the Great past a pirate who had been seized. For when that king had asked the man what he meant past keeping hostile possession of the ocean, he answered with bold pride, "What g meanest by seizing the whole earth; merely because I do information technology with a fiddling ship, I am chosen a robber, whilst thou who dost it with a great armada art styled emperor."
    • Augustine of Hippo, The City of God, Book IV, Ch. 4

• Subsequently fighting, scheming and murdering in pursuit of the secure tenure of accented ability, he institute himself at last on a lonely acme over an abyss, with no use for his power and security unattainable. His genius was such that he concluded an epoch and began some other - merely one of unceasing war and misery, from which exhaustion produced an approach to order after two generations and peace at final nether the Roman Empire. He himself never found peace. Ane is tempted to run across him, in medieval terms, as the human who sold his soul to the Devil for power: the Devil kept his office of the deal simply ultimately claimed his own. But to the historian, prosaically such allegory, we must put it differently: to him, when he has done all the work - work that must be washed, and done advisedly - of analysing the play of faction and the arrangement of authorities, Alexander illustrates with startling clarity the ultimate loneliness of supreme ability.
  • Ernst Badian, Studies in Greek and Roman History, Alexander the Groovy and the Loneliness of Power, 1964 p. 204

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

• The aboriginal writers tell of the peculiar "melting" glance of his optics, or of the way in which, as Plutarch says, his body seemed to glow. They are evidently trying to describe something which they found information technology hard to express. He also grew up, to the delight of Philip, serious-minded, untiring, passionately slap-up to succeed in any hard job, and yet more keen the more difficult it was.
  He was a not bad reader, too. He had been early defenseless by the glamour of the Tale of Troy, like most Greek boys; and he never grew weary of it. As far equally the Oxus and the Indus, he carried with him his personal copy of the Iliad...
  • A. R. Burn, in Alexander the Great and the Hellenistic Empire (1948), p. 11

• When he says that in that twenty-four hour period all his thoughts perish, or flow away, perhaps under this expression he censures the madness of princes in setting no premises to their hopes and desires, and scaling the very heavens in their ambition, like the insane Alexander of Macedon, who, upon hearing that at that place were other worlds, wept that he had not yet conquered ane, although soon after the funeral urn sufficed him.
  • John Calvin, in his interpretation of Psalm 146 in On The Volume Of Psalms (1557) as translated by Rev. James Anderson (1849)

• Having but that i hope, the achievement of it, of event, must put an end to all my hopes; and what a wretch is he who must survive his hopes! Null remains when that day comes, simply to sit downwards and weep like Alexander, when he wanted other worlds to conquer.
  • William Congreve, in words for the grapheme Fainall in Fashion of the Globe (1700)
  • Variants on this theme:
  • And then he saturday down and wept because there were non other worlds for him to conquer.
    • James Baldwin's Thirty More than Famous Stories Retold (1905)
  • He cried because at that place were no more than worlds to conquer.
    • Twilight Zone episode "Of Belatedly I Call up 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 Difficult (1988); this is sometimes mistaken as a quote from more 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 as the Twilight Zone episode "Of Late I Remember of Cliffordville" (1963).

• Of the life of Alexander nosotros have v consecutive narratives...Here, it might, he idea, are regime plenty; hut unluckily, among all the five, in that location is not a unmarried contemporary chronicler. All five write at secondhand, ... Diodorus we believe to be 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 indicate a moral than to give a formal narrative of political and armed services events. Justin is a feeble and careless epitomizer. Quintus Curtius is, in our optics, little better than a romance-writer; he is the only 1 of the five whom we should doubtable of any wilful difference from the truth.
  • Freedman, Historical Essays, [ii], quoted in Devahuti, D., & Indian History and Culture Guild. (1980). Bias in Indian historiography. Delhi: D.K. Publications. p. 84

• We must recall also that Philip and Alexander were Greeks, descended from Heracles, wished to be recognised every bit Greeks, as benefactors of the Greeks, even equally Heracles had been.
  • N. G. L. Hammond, British scholar and skillful on Macedon, Alexander the Bang-up: King, Commander and Statesman, p. 257

• Later Philip's assassination at Aegae in 336, Alexander inherited, together with the Macedonian kingdom, his begetter's Panhellenic project to atomic number 82 the Greeks in the conquest of Persia.
  • Waldemar Heckel, Lawrence A. Tritle, Alexander the Nifty: A New History, Wiley-Blackwell, 2009, p.99

• Dhu al-Qarnain is Alexander the Greek, the king of Persia and Greece, or the king of the east and the west, for considering of this he was chosen Dhul-Qarnayn [significant, "the two-horned one"]...
  • Ibn Hisham, in a note on the Qur'an; see as well Alexander the Swell in the Qur'an

• We are not in the situation of poor Alexander the Nifty, 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, there 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 east the solar day was reddening,
  When the warriors laissez passer'd;
  In the west the night was deadening,
  As they looked their concluding;
  As they looked their terminal on him —
  He, their comrade — their commander
  He, the earth's adored —
  He, the godlike Alexander !
  Who can wield his sword ?
  As they went their eyes were dim,
  The silverish-shielded warriors,
  The warriors of the world !
  • Letitia Elizabeth Landon, "The Decease-Bed of Alexander the Great", The New Monthly Magazine, Volume 45, Part three (1835), p. 303

• The only human being with whom I felt any kinship died three hundred years before the birth of Christ. Alexander of Macedonia. I idolized him. A young regular army commander, he'd swept forth the coasts of Turkey and Phoenicia, subduing Arab republic of egypt before turning his armies towards Persia. He died, xxx-three, ruling most of the civilized world. Ruling without barbarism! At Alexandria, he instituted the ancient world'due south greatest seat of learning. True, people died ... perhaps unnecessarily, though who can guess such things? Yet how he nearly approached his vision of a united globe! I was determined to measure my success against his. Firstly, I gave away my inheritance. to demonstrate the possibility of achieving anything starting from zip. Next, I departed for Northern Turkey, to retrace my hero's steps. I wanted to lucifer his accomplishment, bringing an age of illumination to a benighted world. Heh. I wanted to have something to say should we see in the hall of legends. I followed the path of Alexander'due south military along the black sea coast, imagining his armies taking port afterwards port, blood on ancient statuary. Possibly because of the challenge it represented: the ancient world's greatest puzzle was at that place, a knot that couldn't exist untied. Alexander cut information technology in ii with his sword. Lateral thinking, yous see. Centuries ahead of his fourth dimension. Heading southward, he entered Arab republic of egypt through Memphis, where they proclaimed him son of Amon, judge of the dead, whose proper name ways "hidden one." Under rule from Alexandria, the classic culture of the nifty Pharaohs was restored. I followed him through Babylon, up through Kabul to Samarkhand then down the Indus, where he met the first elephants of war. Where he'd turned back to quell dissent at home, I travelled on, through Cathay and Tibet, gathering martial wisdom as I went. Alexander returned to Babylon to dice of an infection, aged thirty-iii, amongst its ruined ziggurats. I saw at last his failings. He'd non united all the world, nor built a unity that would survive him. Disillusioned, but determined, to consummate my odyssey, I followed his corpse to its resting place in Alexandria.
  • Alan Moore for the character Adrian Veidt/Ozymandias, Watchmen, #11, August 1987, p. x-13.

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

• It is ameliorate to believe in men too rashly, and regret, than believe besides meanly. Men could exist more than they are, if they would try for it. He has shown them that. How many accept tried, because of him? Not merely those I have seen; in that location will be men to come. Those who look in flesh merely for their own littleness, and make them believe in that, kill more than he ever will in all his wars.
  • Mary Renault, The Persian Boy (1972)

• When magic through nerves 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)

• One time 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 Journeying : The Story of a Long Walk in 1938 (1986), p. 1

• One time upon a fourth dimension, Aristotle taught Alexander that he should restrain himself from oft approaching his married woman, who was very beautiful, lest he should impede his spirit from seeking the full general good. Alexander acquiesed to him. The queen, when she perceived this and was upset, began to draw Aristotle to honey her. Many times she crossed paths with him alone, with blank feet and disheveled pilus, so that she might entice him.
  At last, beingness enticed, he began to solicit her carnally. She says,
  "This I will certainly non do, unless I encounter a sign of dearest, lest you be testing me. Therefore, come up to my sleeping accommodation crawling on hand and foot, in club to deport me similar a horse. Then I'll know that you aren't deluding me."
  When he had consented to that condition, she secretly told the matter to Alexander, who lying in wait apprehended him carrying the queen. When Alexander wished to kill Aristotle, in order to excuse himself, Aristotle says,
  If thus information technology happened to me, an old homo most wise, that I was deceived by a adult female, yous tin come across that I taught you well, that it could happen to you lot, a young man."
  Hearing that, the rex spared him, and made progress in Aristotle'southward teachings.
  • Bearding, Phyllis and Aristotle.

References [edit]

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External links [edit]

Primary sources

• Alexander the Great: An annotated list of principal sources from Livius.org
• Wiki Classical Dictionary, extant sources and fragmentary and lost sources
• Plutarch, Life of Alexander (in English language)
• Justin, Paradigm of the Philippic History of Pompeius Trogus (in English)
• Plutarch, Of the Fortune or Virtue of Alexander the Peachy (in English language)
• Quintus Curtius Rufus, Histories of Alexander (in Latin)

Projects

• Alexander the Groovy on the Web, a comprehensive directory of some 1,000 sites
• Livius Project articles on Alexander by Jona Lendering
• Pothos.org: Alexander'southward Habitation on the Web
• Wiki Classical Lexicon: Category Alexander the Great, a Mediawiki based project, with stricter guidelines and editors

Give-and-take

• Pothos Forum

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