Alexander the Great Exhibition

[hoplite14gr]

All great men have dubious stories told about them and different opinions are held about them, by their contemporararies and posterity.
Probably "Avlokolakes" and "Parasitoi" had called him "great" flattering his ego to earn their daily bread.
Probably Ionian Greeks finaly freed from persophile tyrrants called "great" in gratitute.
Probably spoil laden mercenaries called him "great" for similar reasons.
He was considered "Great" though long before the Latium peasants ever though of making an empire.
The real reason is that he was the first European to put put the East under the military Dominance of the West.
Something unparralled until the time of Eugene of Savoie and Petter the Great.

He conquered Afganistan too! (mighty Empires failed to repeat that feat)

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