(01-29-2024, 09:14 PM)Kyng Wrote: [ -> ]Nice 
. I think I'd read that Aristotle was Alexander's mentor, but I didn't know about the edition of Homer's works!
Not to sound too psychoanalytic but I think once you understand Alexander's obsession with The Iliad and his worries that his father would have a legacy impossible to follow up you start to understand the mind of Alexander a bit. Alexander wanted to be an eternal legend like Achilles and the man got it.
Yes, he certainly did
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Next up: Roh Tae-woo, who became the first democratically-elected president of South Korea in 1988, was born 'No Tae-woo'. He changed his family name from 'No' to 'Roh' to avoid the negative connotations of the word 'No' in English.
Supposedly Scipio Africanus had a meeting with Hannibal and asked him who he thought were the greatest generals of all time. Hannibal placed Alexander the Great as the best which Scipio was fine with, then he ranked Pyrrhus of Epirus in second then himself as third. Apparently this annoyed Scipio who believed Hannibal should've ranked him higher.
Ancient Sparta actually spent more time suppressing slave revolts than waging war against other city states.
People tend to criticize John Adams for using the Sedition Act but as President Thomas Jefferson did the same thing in a roundabout way. Jefferson avoided using the Act directly (since he criticized Adams for it) but instead had his political lackeys in the states prosecute various newspapers that criticized him.