Robin Lane Fox - Alexander Quotes

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It was the Delphi of the Greek East and as a Hellene, not as Pharaoh, Alexander would be curious...

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Alexander was not the first Greek to be honoured as a god for political favour...

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The occasion was not lost on Alexander: at Susa, he sacrificed to Greek gods and held Greek gymnastic games...

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Alexander was recognized as a son of Zeus after his visit.

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But Alexander was stressing his link with Achilles... Achilles was also a stirring Greek hero, useful for a Macedonian king whose Greek ancestry did not stop Greeks from calling him a barbarian.

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Among the conservative Greek opinion there would be no regrets that Alexander the Greek leader was invading the barbarians.

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Alexander son of Philip and the Greeks, except the Spartans..., as Sparta did not consider it to be her fathers' practice to follow, but to lead.

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Alexander was still the Greek avenger of Persian sacrilege who told his troops, it was said 'that Persepolis was the most hateful city in the world'. On the road there, he met with the families of Greeks who had deported to Persia by previous kings, and true to his slogan, he honoured them conspicuously, giving them money, five changes of clothing, farm animals, corn, a free passage home, and exemption from taxes and bureaucratic harassments.

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In spirit, Alexander made a gesture to the Lydians' sensitivities, though his Greek crusade owed them nothing as they were not Greeks.

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