Why don't we call Attila, Chengis Khan, Timur and never to miss great Fuhrer Hitler 'Great'. All of them deserve the title as much as Alexander,"the Great."
You've never heard of Christopher Marlowe's Tamburlaine the Great?
Why don't we call Attila, Chengis Khan, Timur and never to miss great Fuhrer Hitler 'Great'. All of them deserve the title as much as Alexander,"the Great."
Why don't we call Attila, Chengis Khan, Timur... 'Great'. All of them deserve the title as much as Alexander,"the Great."
Why did this become a moral discussion for the love of God?
Why did this become a moral discussion for the love of God?
I think Persia will be crippled. How the Achaemenid Persian Empire inevitably falls is anybody's guess. The satrapies could break away, a new dynasty could rise up, nomads might invade: Who knows?
The key thing here is that neither Persia not Egypt will be Hellenized -- this will lead to a very different Middle East, with the social legacies of Cyrus the Great quite possibly continuing unperturbed...
Damien: the devil-child? Not sure Jesus the Great would approve.
There was a board-game about the battle of Ankara, which I played once or twice back in the late' 70s, in which the scale of Timur's victory or defeat there was summed up by a set of alternative titles ranging from 'Timur the Great' (or possibly 'Timur the Magnificent') down to 'Timur Who?'You've never heard of Christopher Marlowe's Tamburlaine the Great?
MerryPrankster is right.When I mentioned Damien I meant Father Damien who had sacrificed his own life to serve the poor lepers abandoned by all others.The other "Damien' mentioned by Saepe Fidelis,I think, is a character in an old film, the name of which I don't remember.Maybe Father Damien, who worked with lepers.
A lot of people overlook the fact that he merely competently used the combined arms force his father developed. Phillip of Macedon was the real bright spark there.
Your guess is as good as mine, I don't see Alexander as being terribly more brutal than any other leader of his age, especially in the Greco-sphere.
You seem to forget Alexander got all the way to India. He may not be great perhaps his Persian name, Iskander the Accursed is better suited to him but anyone who conquered everything from Greece to India deserves a round of applause!
Holy necromancy, Batman.
He beat the Persians at Gaugamela and then moved on the sweep up the collapsing satrapies of the Empire. it was a great feat of logistics and management but it's not as if he had to fight every step of the way- and it's significant that once he pushed beyond the boundaries of the Persian Empire and faced his next round of actual military resistance (in India) he pretty much backed off- Alexander's armies were fine with holding down Persia, not with actually fighting another active campaign.