Thread 514707038

He was the best. What do you guys think?

>>514707038 (OP)
He was the goat.

>>514707038 (OP)
He descended from Achilles on his mother's side and from Herakles on his father's side. He was trained by an appreciator of Laconic (Spartan) culture.
He should have exterminated Persians instead of forcing his generals to marry Persian women.

>>514707129
look it’s a jew

>>514707129
Yeah Im gonna go with calling him gay

>>514707038 (OP)
Yea that was me.

>>514707038 (OP)
he looks Indian

>>514707129
Hey mang what happens on the frontlines in Persia stays on the frontlines in Persia

>>514707546
Please deliver the great saar

should have enforced greek culture on all the territory he conquered, he was too soft

>>514707129
This is such a bullshit myth. He famously fell in love with Roxana because of her beauty. Doesn't sound like a fag to me.

>>514707084
Philip was far better and the world would have been far better off had he not been killed, Alex was a fucking retard who floated on the greatness of a great military, talented generals and fantastic economy, all created by Philip

>>514707038 (OP)
I wish I was part of this siege.

>>514707038 (OP)
I’m more of a Jules Caesar guy myself. Not to discredit AtG but he was basically handed the most elite army in the world on his 18th birthday. Meanwhile Ceasar had to pull some of the greatest political maneuvering the world had ever seen to even get his chance

>>514707038 (OP)
He extensively sieged the Tyrians because they were afraid to let his army into the city and sacrifice at the temple of melqart. They were Vassals of Persia and combatants, of course they weren't going to let him into the city. But he took it personally and wiped the place out.

But then he rewards the jews with citizenship to Alexandria because they betrayed Persia. ONLY FOR THE JEWS TO INSTANTLY BETRAY THE SUCCEEDING SELEUCIDS. What did he think would happen? WHAT KIND OF MORON REWARDS BETRAYAL?

And of course all the jews in Alexandria became scammers and beggars. Also, judaism didnt even exist yet. They used texts from the library of Alexandria to create it and trick the rest of the world into thinking they were noble people with souls and a country. THEN THEY BURNED THE LIBRARY DOWN.

HIS NARCISSISM DOOMED THE WORLD
HE GOT CONNED BY A LEPER COLONY AND NOW I CANT AFFORD GROCERIES

>>514707038 (OP)
Fuck the Christcucks that destroyed his mausoleum

>>514707038 (OP)
There is no way. He ripped off Job's line about dying with nothing.

>>514707946
view presented by Polyaenus is that Alexander was so incensed at having to build a bridge to take the city of Tyre that he decided to kill or enslave most of Tyre's population
lmao

>>514707985
Based Diogenes.
>>514708043
>Jules Caesar
Oh yes, the man of all Roman women and the woman of all Roman men.

>>514708079
Seleukos never ruled over Egypt. Alexander couldn't have given them citizenship in Alexandria because the city wasn't built at the time of his death, it was built by Ptolemy Soter who was his brother adopted by Lagus so Olympia won't murder him.

>>514709350
They revolted against the seluecids in Jerusalem. And I'm pretty sure Alexander founded alexandria

>faggot
>empire immediately collapses after his death
>his conquests were only possible because all of the other powers around him had collapsed and his father had spent his entire life grinding the army
he still wasn't that bad, but extremely overrated overall

>>514709675
>They revolted against the seluecids in Jerusalem.
No connection to Ptolemaic Egypt.
>And I'm pretty sure Alexander founded alexandria
Laid out the plan. The city was built after his death. Alexander didn't give citizenship to anyone anywhere and declared all his subjects equal at Opis.

>>514707038 (OP)
He was a fag like you

>>514707038 (OP)
He was great, it says so in his name so it must be true

He literally tried to race-mix all of Greece and Persia together, he was the OG globhomo

>>514707038 (OP)
Wonderful battle tactician but an idiot politician who probably was killed by his own entourage. Too bad he's regularly portrayed as the perfect homosexual.

>>514707038 (OP)
>Reach Jerusalem, meet with rabbi that tell him that he's going to be a legend
>Alexander the ape gets bamboozled and allow kikes to be mostly free and even be able to move to the other parts of the Empire, giving birth to the Jewish Diaspora and their commercial webs

>>514710090
The jews in alexandria certainly had knowledge and relationships with the jews in israel. And their destruction of jews in alexandria is coincident and tangentially related with the romans conquering israel. It was a result of warmongering nature of the kikes in those times that made the world hate them all and jew diaspora outside of israel was in many places killed or exiled.

>>514708180
>Fuck the anti-Trinitarian Arian Goths that destroyed his mausoleum
ftfy ranjeet

>>514707038 (OP)
>died of HIV
>invented heroin
>did nothing worthwile
he was a spiritual Russian.

>>514707038 (OP)

i think one of the most famous people in all of history is the guy who poisoned alexander and possibly gave rise to the roman empire and we don't even know his name

>>514707038 (OP)
>dies to a germ

>>514707038 (OP)
I find myself more impressed by his father in many respects, Philip II of Macedon. He took a backwater kingdom that just had their king killed, nearly half their army destroyed, surrounded on all sides by stronger entities (Thessaly, Athenians, Illyrians etc.), considered barely Greek at all by the Southern Greeks, and within a single generation had revolutionized warfare (Sarissa, funded the creation of torsion-catapults, invented new logistics, created the companion cavalry and their tactics, revolutionized western siege warfare), brought all his enemies to their heels, and unified Greece becoming the commander and chief (Hegemon). The plan to invade Persia was also his. Philip was just sheer political and military genius.
Alexander was more of a force of nature. Perhaps not the sheer genius and foresight and ability of his father, but just endless ambition and an unrelenting desire for immortality and greatness. Think of it this way: in his time, the greatest warrior was Achilles, only Dionysus had traveled far Eastward. Alexander surpassed the myths and Gods of his time. In his speech at Opis he says he was the first to cross the Indus River since Dionysus.
Someone else mentioned Caesar in this thread, and I also think he was remarkable. Not only arguably the greatest, most accomplished and most experienced military general of antiquity, he was also a first-rate politician, statesman, orator, and a true intellectual (even wrote a book on the Latin language called De Analogia, sadly little survives). Obviously he has his surviving books on the Gallic and Civil Wars.
People like Caesar and Alexander are impressive for having more or less having completely mastered and conquered their world. Stealing a quote from the 2004 Alexander movie (bad movie), their failures tower over other men's successes. Napoleon belongs with them. The common thread I've learned they share is a truly endless energy and ambition. You and I get tired and lazy; they did not.

>>514707038 (OP)
His dad was better

>>514707038 (OP)
watch asha logos vid on Alexander

>>514707038 (OP)
>the best
>worships jeets
>dies at 36 from siphilis or whatever
truly the worst of the worst

>>514707903
Philip lacked the heroic quality.
He would have ended up just another late classical general who made inroads into the persian empire.

>>514713614
>the guy who poisoned alexander
that was Cassander
he also killed Alexander's wife, son and mother and even poisoned Aristotle

>>514713877
>>514713992
Based takes.

I'm also a Philip II fan. Alexander was indeed great but he stood on the shoulders of a titan.

If my father had left me such a golden opportunity I dont think I would've wasted it either.

>>514707038 (OP)
>be slavshit
>go to athens once
>get assraped by an almost senile greek pedo
>become gayreek
>papa tells you to go get money
>forget where is your home is
>pick direction and just go
>get lucky that every gayreek and persuck state got fucked up in a war
>try to invade india
>catch malaria and die like a faggot
>never know that you went on the opposite direction

>>514708180
Alexander himself looted multiple mausoleums, anon. It was kind of a regular thing back in the day.

>>514707038 (OP)
I think his father was the best. Phillip created the best army and military tactics of his time and was poised to take over the world. If he had not been assasinated during his daughters wedding nobody would remember Alex.