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To: Criminal Number 18F
Cyrus the Great, huh?

Yet, they want to relegate Alexander to "Not So Great"... More historical revisionism... Yawn...

the infowarrior

11 posted on 09/14/2005 1:57:03 AM PDT by infowarrior (TANSTAAFL)
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To: infowarrior

The title of "the Great" wasn't applied to Alexander until long after his death. In his lifetime Greeks knew him as "Alexander son of Philip." The Athenians and many other Greeks had a pretty negative opinion of him. (Among other things he razed the city of Thebes.)


24 posted on 09/14/2005 9:19:12 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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