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re: OTD: Alexander the Great died at 32 years of age
Posted on 6/11/19 at 7:17 pm to TigerFanInSouthland
Posted on 6/11/19 at 7:17 pm to TigerFanInSouthland
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Really makes me feel inadequate at 41.
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Yup. The ambition of him and men like him knew no bounds.
i wouldnt be too hard on yourselves unless you were handed an empire by your father when you were 20
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Posted on 6/11/19 at 7:19 pm to TigerFanInSouthland
When Alexander saw the breadth of his domain, he wept, for there were no more worlds to conquer.
Benefits of a classical education.
Benefits of a classical education.
Posted on 6/11/19 at 7:32 pm to Draconian Sanctions
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Benefits of a classical education.
Watch Tombstone recently?
Or was it Die Hard? I forget.
Looked it up. It was Die Hard.
This post was edited on 6/11/19 at 7:36 pm
Posted on 6/11/19 at 7:44 pm to Michael Hayes
Posted on 6/11/19 at 7:48 pm to TigerFanInSouthland
That is so weird.
Jimi Hendrix died at 27.
Jimi Hendrix died at 27.
Posted on 6/11/19 at 7:52 pm to bbvdd
Yeah Die Hard reference, but no I didn’t watch it recently I just know it by heart.
Posted on 6/11/19 at 7:52 pm to biglego
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You’re just mad bc he conquered Athens
If he had conuered athens GA he would have given it back.
Posted on 6/11/19 at 8:11 pm to sgallo3
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wouldnt be too hard on yourselves unless you were handed an empire by your father when you were 20
Yeah, conquering the known world ain’t shite.
Posted on 6/11/19 at 9:18 pm to biglego
He didn’t conqueror Athens. They kept changing sides repeatedly until they knew he would attack them. But they funneled money, soldiers, and resources to Persia like every other major Greek city state not named Corinth did
Posted on 6/11/19 at 9:24 pm to TigerFanInSouthland
I mean, if everyone who did awful stuff within that time period, he just seemed much more randomly out for blood than anyone else. Sure, the other guys massacred plenty of people but he just seems to have enjoyed it more.
I read a biography about him and he came across really badly.
Like at one point, he’s just bored so he takes some men and says “we don’t have anything to do, we’re just going to kill everyone who lives up in those hills.
He was an immature man as well. He killed Black cletus by accident for crying out loud.
I read a biography about him and he came across really badly.
Like at one point, he’s just bored so he takes some men and says “we don’t have anything to do, we’re just going to kill everyone who lives up in those hills.
He was an immature man as well. He killed Black cletus by accident for crying out loud.
Posted on 6/11/19 at 9:26 pm to TigerFanInSouthland
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Alexander the Great died at 32 years of age
Ha...what a loser.
Posted on 6/11/19 at 9:31 pm to athenslife101
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He didn’t conqueror Athens.
He didn’t lay siege to the city bc he didn’t have to. The Macedonians were the bosses of Greece after Chaeronea.
Posted on 6/11/19 at 9:42 pm to athenslife101
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I mean, if everyone who did awful stuff within that time period, he just seemed much more randomly out for blood than anyone else. Sure, the other guys massacred plenty of people but he just seems to have enjoyed it more.
It’s impossible to really say how much he enjoyed killing in comparison to other conquerors. Also consider that we have more ancient sources on Alexander than we have most other conquerors. I guarantee Attila, Tiglath-Pilaser, Sargon, Nebuchadnezzar etc would demonstrate some pretty nasty character traits also if we knew them better.
Posted on 6/11/19 at 9:53 pm to biglego
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It’s impossible to really say how much he enjoyed killing in comparison to other conquerors. Also consider that we have more ancient sources on Alexander than we have most other conquerors. I guarantee Attila, Tiglath-Pilaser, Sargon, Nebuchadnezzar etc would demonstrate some pretty nasty character traits also if we knew them better.
Yeah I’m not really understanding how he can compare Alexander to the rest of the ancients. None of the others had as much written about them. I’m sure they were all very similar to each other.
Posted on 6/11/19 at 9:54 pm to biglego
Yeah, I was thinking in particular Greco-Roman Hellenistic world. I’m having a hard time describing it but he just seemed to random and arbitrary approach to life. He was the spoiled frat star who got everything he ever wanted and would throw a team trim when he didn’t. He’s infamous for moving around in his own tent for days at a time if he didn’t get his way.
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