Poll: People Who Deserve the Title "the Great"

Who do you think is "great" enough to get title "the Great"?

  • Leonidas I

    Votes: 21 12.3%
  • Phillip II of Macedon

    Votes: 27 15.8%
  • Seleucus I

    Votes: 6 3.5%
  • Ptolemy I

    Votes: 9 5.3%
  • Hannibal

    Votes: 39 22.8%
  • Julius Caesar

    Votes: 60 35.1%
  • Octavian Augustus

    Votes: 58 33.9%
  • Trajan

    Votes: 30 17.5%
  • Marcus Aurelius

    Votes: 19 11.1%
  • Diocletian

    Votes: 6 3.5%
  • Attila the Hun

    Votes: 22 12.9%
  • Belisarius

    Votes: 22 12.9%
  • Heraclius

    Votes: 18 10.5%
  • Charles Martel

    Votes: 30 17.5%
  • Richard I of England

    Votes: 22 12.9%
  • Saladin

    Votes: 63 36.8%
  • Joan of Arc

    Votes: 27 15.8%
  • George Washington

    Votes: 60 35.1%
  • Sir Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington

    Votes: 29 17.0%
  • Adolf Hitler

    Votes: 15 8.8%

  • Total voters
    171
My vote goes to Augustus.
Did he do anything wrong? Did he not make himself emperor of the greatest nation on earth, and letting the people belive they were still ruled by the senate? Smooth

My second vote would have be Cnut the great, ruler of Denmark, England, Norway and parts of Sweden, but he is already great so...
 

Graehame

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Leonidas because he saved Western civilization. Period.
Julius Caesar because he laid the foundations of the Principate, which ruled the Mediterranean world for the next 300 years+.
Octavius because his title "Augustus", granted by the Senate, basically means "the Great". And however much I dislike him personally, he deserved it.
Not Saladin because he wasn't a ruler, & all of "the Greats" were rulers. Besides, he was an infidel dog-- a civilized infidel dog, but an infidel dog nevertheless-- & we're down on infidel dogs this season.
Not George W. because he wasn't a ruler, & none of "the Greats" were the presidents of representative gov'ts.
BTW, interesting that you included Hitler on your list but not Napoleon.
 
Leonidas because he saved Western civilization. Period
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I completely disagree with this. If you give it to Leonidas, you need to do the same for Themistocles. Without him leading the Athenian navy and blocking the Persian fleet, the Persians simply would have landed behind the Greeks at Thermopolaye and massacred them.

Plus Leonidas was defeated and Persia overran Plataea. It wasn't till Salamis where Themistocles crushed the Persian fleet that Xeres fled back to Asia leaving one of his generals in charge in Greece and thus setting up the Persian army for the battle of Plataea where they were driven from Greece.

Leonidas was a brave and highly competent general, no doubt, but hardly the savior of western civilization, or deserving of 'The Great'.
 
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Leonidas because he saved Western civilization. Period.
Actually that's not the reason I included him in the poll. Credit for saved Western civilization should be given to Miltiades, Themistocles, or Pausanias.
Julius Caesar because he laid the foundations of the Principate...

It was Octavian who laid the foundation for Principate, wasn't it?
Octavius...And however much I dislike him personally...
Errr why? Octavian was a genius who saved the Romans from continous civil war and corrupted republican government.
Not Saladin...he was an infidel dog...

It's just me, or this statement is really an offense for the Muslims?
Not George W. because he wasn't a ruler, & none of "the Greats" were the presidents of representative gov'ts.

Yeah, but the question is whether he deserves it or not.
BTW, interesting that you included Hitler on your list but not Napoleon.
I have answered this question before, Napoleon I has already get title "the Great".
 
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