Alexander the Great
In Our Time
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Aristotle's the Last Ruler of the Persian Empire
There is almost no evidence, apart from roman historians, in effect. But i thinkwat what we're seeing with these stories of increasingly drunken rages or eccentric abarine behaviour,. if they're true, we're seeing instances that alexander was turning into something other than a macedonian ruler. And this starts to become increasingly evident when we see stories like the one you just mentioned of clitus. Clitus has been with him all the way through the campaigns. He's somebody from the old country who believes that he needs to give alexander a word or two to tell him where he's going wrong. Unfortunately, he chooses a banquet at which a lot of drink has
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