Alexander The Great's Sex Life
The Ancients
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The Christmas Story of Alexander the Great
During the reign of Philip II, there is no settled succession. So you see this rival factions emerging at court. You see Olympias, Alexander's mother playing a prominent role. When he marries his seventh and final wife, Cleopatra, another Cleopatra who is from Macedonian noble family. They're at the wedding feast where they're celebrating the marriage of Philip to Cleopatra. The story behind that is Palsanias, according to the sources, he's a royal page,. He had been the lover, the beloved of Philip II but later decided to take another male lover also called Palsania. That's Palsanius too.
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