re: Alexander The Great needs a new epic series

Yeah, that scene was to lengthy. Could have cut it down just a bit.

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but it was way more common for otherwise straight men to have gay lovers back then.

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Alexander was the original "Power Top".

i can't tell if this is ironic post like (i can't wait for the 4th Indiana Jones movie or Season 8 of GoT)

there's literally a new series right now. Netflix


ETA: my bad. i started typing this an hour ago and forgot to hit send. obviously others addressed this.

I thought the OP had willed this new series into existence. I saw the post yesterday, then saw that Netflix had a new series last night. Just now noticed the date of the OP.

There was an article published in some medical journal that proposed a new theory of how Alexander died at the age of 32....and that he wasn't actually dead.

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When Alexander the Great died in Babylon in 323 B.C., his body didn’t begin to show signs of decomposition for a full six days, according to historical accounts.

To the ancient Greeks, this confirmed what they all thought about the young Macedonian king, and what Alexander believed about himself—that he was not an ordinary man, but a god.

But in one theory, a scholar and practicing clinician suggests that Alexander may have suffered from the neurological disorder Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS), which caused his death. She also argues that people might not have noticed any immediate signs of decomposition on the body for one simple reason—because Alexander wasn’t dead yet.

In fact, she points out, he was also known to have developed a “progressive, symmetrical, ascending paralysis” during his illness. And though he was very sick, he remained compos mentis (fully in control of his mental faculties) until just before his death.

Hall argues that GBS, a rare but serious autoimmune disorder in which the immune system attacks healthy cells in the nervous system, can explain this combination of symptoms better than the other theories advanced for Alexander’s death. She believes he may have contracted the disorder from an infection of Campylobacter pylori, a common bacterium at the time.

She argues that the increasing paralysis Alexander suffered, as well as the fact that his body needed less oxygen as it shut down, would have meant that his breathing was less visible. Because in ancient times, doctors relied on the presence or absence of breath, rather than a pulse, to determine whether a patient was alive or dead, Hall believes Alexander might have been falsely declared dead before he actually died.

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So basically he was a crazy lunatic that used a social and economic collapse to seize power in a crippled country, radicalized the youth, then drove the country further into the ground. He failed at literally everything, including art.

Alexander actually accomplished all of his goals and more.

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i was about to mildly disagree with you about him failing at everything (taking over all of continental Europe is formidable,) but then i remembered a very important life advice:

when you're about to defend hitler, you should probably stop talking.

-unknown (maybe Norm Macdonald?)

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The dude literally dammed up the ocean just so he could sack a city to pray in its temple and leave

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Well, he was (in the words of Prince Humperdink) extremely "put out" that they resisted...and made an example of them...slaughtering the men inside the walls and selling the women and children into slavery.

It was an aberration of cruelty outside of him fighting professional armies.

His modus operandi after conquering cities was to settle it, develop it, leave behind soldiers to marry locals and stay and manage the territory so his footprint was there as an Empire...later the Romans copied his blueprint.

He didn't go on campaigns, just to burn everything to the ground. But Tyrians pissed him off something awful.