#alexander the great
The beginning of a friendship that would change the world…
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“The men are testing me as much as I’m testing them. They want to see if I’m softer than my father. I have to show them I’m not.’
Hephaistion shot him a scathing look. ‘Most of them have known you since you were a boy. Where in all Hades would they have got the idea that you’re soft?”
The Lion’s Cub by L M Zorn
Book 1 of the Philalexandros Chronicles
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“You could stay with your father and raise horses. There’s honour in it.’
‘I could,’ Hephaistion agreed. ‘And I will, when all this is done. But right now that would mean leaving you to your own good sense, and from what I can tell that’s thin on the ground.”
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“I hope you don’t snore.’ Alexandros spoke over his shoulder as he moved back to his own bed.
‘Why, do you?’
The prince, reaching to put out the lamp, paused, surprised. ‘I don’t know. I don’t think so. But I’ve never shared a room before.’
‘Well then,’ said Hephaistion, rolling to his back to smile up at the ceiling. ‘I suppose we’ll both find out.”
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Sliver Tetradrachm of Alexander the Great wearing a lion skin helmet. The coin was minted in Babylon around 324 BCE. The city was the capital of the Macedonian king’s vast empire and where he died in 323 BCE. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, PA.
Photo by Babylon Chronicle
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Jewish-styled Alexander Legends Found on Silver Bowl from Tibet
A revealing study has found that a tiny silver bowl made in Central Asia and found in Tibet is covered in Alexander legends that have a unique Jewish style, including a circumcised Alexander the Great!
Mirak Jamal, Alex – proposition to a Detroit highway, 2015
Vinyl, automotive paint, steel; 30 cm × 215 cm × 9 cm
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The fact that Julius Caesar burst into tears after reading about Alexander the Great because they were the same age but he could never live up to Alexander is one of the greatest things I’ve learnt as a classics student
and Alexander himself got upset over the fact that he would never live up to Achilles- he paid his respects at Achilles and Patroclus’ tomb, and kept a copy of the Iliad under his pillow. History is nothing but a long, long list of maudlin queers fearing that they’ll fail to live up to the maudlin queers who came before them.
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“But there is one anecdote about Alexander and Leonidas which has never had quite the attention it deserves. Once, when the young prince was offering sacrifice, with would-be royal lavishness he scooped up two whole fistfuls of incense to cast on the altar fire. This brought down a stinging rebuke on his head from his tutor. “When you’ve conquered the spice-bearing regions,” Leonidas said, with that elaborate sarcasm characteristic of schoolmasters the world over, “you can throw away all the incense you like. Till then, don’t waste it.” Years later, Alexander captured Gaza, the main spice-entrepot for the whole Middle East. As always, he sent presents home to his mother and sister. But this time there was one for Leonidas as well. A consignment of no less than eighteen tons of frankincense and myrrh was delivered to the old man (enough to make him rich beyond his wildest dreams on the resale price), “in remembrance of the hope with which that teacher had inspired his boyhood” - together with an admonition to cease being parsimonious towards the gods. There is something terrifying about this story: the minor slight that rankled for perhaps fifteen years, the crushing generosity, the elaborate and unanswerable replique. But it affords us a most valuable insight into Alexander’s character. Anyone who ever did him a disservice, however trivial, lived to regret it in the end. He never forgot, seldom forgave: “Vengeance is mine, I will repay, saith the Lord.” His implacability was only equalled by his patience. He would nurse a grudge for a decade or more, waiting for the propitious moment; and when that moment came, he struck.”— Peter Green, Alexander of Macedon(viagodmaking)
“In ancient Greece it was a common opinion that Zeus was reincarnated from age to age in the great national heroes. Alexander the Great was regarded not merely as the son of Zeus, but as Zeus himself.”
-W. Y. Evans-Wentz, The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries (1911)
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There’s something truly exquisite about stories where the real tragedy is the price you paid to stand on top of the world
Hollow victories … sacrificing your humanity on the altar of what you perceive to be the greater good … the loneliness of godhood … regret for the person you used to be … the realisation that there is no way back … *chef’s kiss*
Alexander,Oliver Stone(2004):
Rating: 10/10
- When I was a child, my mother thought me devine, my father weak. Which am I, Hephaistion? Weak or Devine? All I know is I trust only you in this world, I’ve missed you. I need you. It is you I love, Hephaistion, no other.
+ You’re everything I care for…and by the sweet breath of Aphrodite, I am so jealous of losing you to this world you want so badly.
- You’ll never lose me, Hephaistion, I will be with you always, untill the end.
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A historical commission for a change: Alexander the Great. There’s a certain amount of artistic license taken here. My client preferred the blond-and-blue-eyed version of the medieval romances, and this is nowhere in particular, despite the ziggurat.
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Alexander, The Servant & The Water of Life Chapter 5.02 (January 31 2022)
Horses! Chariots! Chaos!
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Alexander, The Servant & The Water of Life Chapter 5.01 (January 11 2022)
The race is about to start! And Alexander makes a few changes to the story.
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Alexander, The Servant & The Water of Life Chapter 4.01 (November 23 2021)
Alexander hates sport, so he makes another wager with his dad to join the Olympics… OR DOES HE???
We’re getting to the really interesting part of the comic now. ;)
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Alexander, The Servant & The Water of Life Chapter 3.05 (November 9 2021)
Alexander, Hephaestion and Bucephalus ride off into the sunset.
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THIS IS THE END OF THE CHAPTER!!! Chapter 4 will launch in the next update!
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Alexander, The Servant & The Water of Life Chapter 7.03 (May 31 2022)
For some days and nights, our travellers two
Set up camp in the woods, thus beginning
A wondrous contraption made out of wood,
Bit by bit, thanks to the Servant’s genius.
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Alexander, The Servant & The Water of Life Chapter 7.02 (May 10 2022)
Alexander devises a devilish plot involving his new pet griffins.
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Alexander, The Servant & The Water of Life Chapter 6.03 (April 12 2022)
Alexander and the Servant finally begin their journey.
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News! We’re almost at the last chapter! I’m slowly putting in the work to crowdfund the PRINT EDITION of Book 1. If you don’t want to miss getting a copy, keep your eyes peeled on the newsletter or here on Tumblr in the summer.
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Alexander, The Servant & The Water of Life Chapter 6.01 (March 29/30 2022)
Alexander learns more about the Water of Life and is given a gift.
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Alexander, The Servant & The Water of Life Chapter 6.01 (March 17 2022)
Alexander and the Servant seek shelter in the home of a mysterious lady
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Alexander, The Servant & The Water of Life Chapter 5.04 (March 1 2022)
Alexander is celebrated as king of the world… but even that prestige can’t make up for the silence that eats within…
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Alexander, The Servant & The Water of Life Chapter 5.03 (February 15 2022)
Alexander and Hephaestion jostle their way to victory!!
That’s the end of the Ancient Greek pottery portion of the story! I had a lot of fun working in this style, even if it was painful sometimes… but the aesthetic results are worth it.
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What was Sparta up to during Alexander the Great’s Conquests?
During Alexander the Great’s conquest of what was then the known world, the Spartan’s contributed nothing to the conquest. Rather, when Alexander the Great marched off to war, the Spartan’s refused to participate unless they were leaders of the army. So what was Sparta up to all the while Alexander was conquering the world?
According to legend Alexander’s father, King Philip II sent the following message to Sparta, “You are advised to submit without delay, for if I bring my army on your land, I will destroy your farms, slay your people and raze your city.”
The Spartan’s responded with a single word, “If”.Most likely this exchange didn’t happen, if it did then the Spartan’s were extremely naïve and stupid. Sparta during the times of Alexander was not the same Sparta as was during the Persian Wars or the Peloponnesian Wars. Spartan weapons and tactics had become outdated and quaint. A number of military defeats followed by a few slave revolts had sapped Sparta of it’s power, leaving Sparta a secondary power at best whose glory days were far behind. The Macedonians could have easily conquered Sparta, however, there were many members of the Corinthian League who hated Sparta, thus it was decided it was best to leave Sparta out of the league because of politics.
In 338 BC Agis III became King of the Spartans, and his number one goal was to make Sparta great again. In 333, with Persian military and financial support, Agis was able to raise a 20,000 man army and defeat a small Macedonian army in Greece. Agis and his men then sailed to Crete with the intention of capturing the island and adding it to Spartan territory. With Alexander the Great’s attention focused on conquering the Persian Empire, Agis and his army was easily able to overrun the island and lay siege to it’s largest city, Megalopolis, in 331. Finally the Spartan’s had become enough of a thorn in Alexander’s side that something needed to be done about them. Alexander sent his trusted general Antipater with a force of 40,000 men to deal with the Spartans. The two armies met outside of Megalopolis for a brief battle. The Macedonian’s outnumbered the Spartans 2 to 1, and in the subsequent battle they were easily able to break Spartan lines and send the Spartan army into full retreat, killing around 5,300 Spartans in the process. Agis III died in battle, supposedly staying behind to fight to the death in order to buy his army time to escape.
After the disastrous Battle of Megalopolis, the Spartans were forced to surrender to Macedonia and join the Corinthian League, lest the Macedonians send an army to destroy Sparta. The conquest of Crete was Sparta’s last hurrah, and from here Sparta would continue to decline until conquered by the Romans in 146 BC.
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Alexander the Great (356 - 323BC ), king of Macedonia from 336 BC), Brooklyn Museum © Gavin Ashworth NYC.
[image description: two photos of a fragmentary marble sculpture of alexander the great. only the right side of his chest, his right shoulder, and his head are preserved. he has long, curly hair and he looks upward.]
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Don’t you love when the rules of your own lore instantly KOs you?
Every Rogers has a Doo. Alexander has a Doo, Alexander is a Rogers.
I MADE THESE RULES NOW I HAVE TO DIE ON THIS HILL
