
Comeuppance, Conquest and Terror
The Victor Davis Hanson Show
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The Killer of the Hellenistic Empire
Sammy: When you read arian or diadores or plutarch or courteous rufus those are the four main sources courteous as i said alexander plutarch and arian you get very different views of him. He went there to loot that kingdom and to get phagus he rich with a bunch of about 20 000 hardcore aristocratic uh macedonians when he died they wanted to know what to do with it all so Alexander told them, "go kill people" So after he burned down a babylon he looted it and he burned down percephalus and it's in the many hundreds of thousands if not millions of people who
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