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Alexander the Great’s letter to “King” Darius III
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Date: July 25th, 2021 11:52 PM Author: amethyst center Your ancestors invaded Macedonia and the rest of Greece and did us harm although we had not done you any previous injury. I have been appointed commander-in-chief of the Greeks and it is with the aim of punishing the Persians that I have crossed into Asia, since you are the aggressors.….Now I have defeated in battle first your generals and satraps, and now you in person and your army, and by the grace of the gods I control the country. All those who fought on your side and did not die in battle but came over to me, I hold myself responsible for them; they are not on my sided under duress but are taking part in the expedition at their own free will.
Approach me therefore as the lord of all Asia. If you are afraid of suffering harm at my hands by coming in person, send some of your friends to receive proper assurances. Come to me to ask and receive your mother, your children and anything else you wish. Whatever you can persuade me to give shall be yours.
In future whenever you communicate with me, send to me as king of Asia; do not write to me as an equal, but state your demands to the master of all your possessions. If not, I shall deal with you as a wrongdoer. If you wish to lay claim to the title of king, then stand your ground and fight for it; you do not take to flight, as I shall pursue you wherever you may be.
****** if i have a son, there’s a 100% chance i’m naming him Alexander. holy shit this nigga was a savage. |
Date: July 26th, 2021 12:10 AM Author: Razzmatazz box office Shortly after the battle of Issus, a messenger arrived, delivering a letter from king Darius, who offered a huge ransom for his mother, wife and children. Alexander refused. In the next months, there were several diplomatic exchanges, which culminated in Darius' offer of all countries west of the Euphrates to Alexander.
"I would accept it," said Parmenion after reading the proposal, "if I were Alexander."
"So would I," replied Alexander, "if I were Parmenion." |
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Date: July 26th, 2021 12:11 AM Author: tripping son of senegal rehab Pretty amazing that he could ride a horse with balls that big. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4885696&forum_id=2#42842011) |
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Date: July 26th, 2021 12:13 AM Author: mind-boggling theatre pistol Reminds me of when Diogenes pwned Alexander, was this before or after that? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4885696&forum_id=2#42842028) |
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Date: July 26th, 2021 12:14 AM Author: Razzmatazz box office After, Alexander never went back to Greece after crossing the Hellespont ----
Alexander went in person to see him, and he found him lying in the sun. Diogenes raised himself up a little when he saw so many people coming towards him, and fixed his eyes upon Alexander. And when that monarch addressed him with greetings, and asked if he wanted anything, "Yes," said Diogenes, "stand a little out of my sun."[7] It is said that Alexander was so struck by this, and admired so much the haughtiness and grandeur of the man who had nothing but scorn for him, that he said to his followers, who were laughing and jesting about the philosopher as they went away, "But truly, if I were not Alexander, I wish I were Diogenes." |
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Date: July 26th, 2021 12:17 AM Author: mind-boggling theatre pistol But Diogenes reply: “If I were not Diogenes I would also wish to be Diogenes.” is what reminded me of the original quote (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4885696&forum_id=2#42842047) |
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Date: July 26th, 2021 12:23 AM Author: amethyst center !!!
all of this feels like total propaganda, but it’s still wildly entertaining |
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Date: July 26th, 2021 12:26 AM Author: Razzmatazz box office Arrian and Plutarch were using contemporary accounts by his generals like Ptolemy etc. These accounts are considered pretty reliable by historians (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4885696&forum_id=2#42842093) |
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Date: July 26th, 2021 12:10 AM Author: Razzmatazz box office When Alexander was a boy of ten or twelve, a man offered to sell a large black stallion to Alexander's father, Phillip, the king of Macedonia. The horse was wild and no one could mount him. The story goes that Alexander commented derisively on the grooms' skill, to which his father challenged him to do better if he could. Apparently Alexander had noticed the stallion shy from his own shadow, so turning the horse to face the sun, Alexander leapt onto his back. The great steed bolted off into the distance, carrying the prince with him. A short time later, Alexander rode back on the exhausted charger.
Phillip, proud, and perhaps a bit fearful, of his son's prowess, is said to have declared: "My son, seek thee out a kingdom equal to thyself; Macedonia has not room for thee." |
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Date: July 26th, 2021 12:12 AM Author: Razzmatazz box office Sogdian Rock was a natural mountain fortress climbing thousands of feet into the sky. A Bactrian leader named Oxyartes, believing the fortress invulnerable, brought his wife, his daughters and many of his people to its safety. With sheer cliff faces on all sides, supplies to withstand a two-year siege, and ample snowfall to provide water, it was widely considered to be unassailable. Curtius describes Alexander's ambition to conquer the fortress as a desire to "bring even nature to her knees."(1)
Alexander, ever the pragmatist, first requested that the garrison surrender on generous terms.(2) They responded that Alexander should find some soldiers with wings, as no other soldiers would cause them any concern. Their reply steeled Alexander's desire to conquer the fortress. To encourage his men, he said to them, "Nature has set nothing so high that it cannot be surmounted by courage. It is by using methods of which others have despaired that we have Asia in our power."(3)
Alexander asked for volunteers experienced in mountaineering and offered the huge sum of 12 talents to the first man to the top of the cliffs. Three hundred men answered the call. They gathered iron tent spikes and rope, and stripped of their armor, climbed at night in order to remain hidden from the enemy. The night climb up sheer frozen rock face proved treacherous, and thirty men fell to their deaths. Before dawn, the surviving men reached the summit and mounted a crag overlooking the fort. There they raised flags to signal Alexander below, who, greatly heartened at the sight, called up to the enemy garrison. He quipped that the Bactrians should look over their shoulders as he had found soldiers with wings. At the sight of the Macedonians on the summit, and with the belief that they were more numerous and fully armed, Oxyartes capitulated. Curtius observes, "It was this which (like so many other events in war of no significance or import) prompted the barbarians to surrender, for in their terror they could not get an impression of how few the men to their rear actually were." |
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Date: July 26th, 2021 12:13 AM Author: Razzmatazz box office The Phrygians were without a king, but an oracle at Telmissus (the ancient capital of Lycia) decreed that the next man to enter the city driving an ox-cart should become their king. A peasant farmer named Gordias drove into town on an ox-cart and was immediately declared king.[a] Out of gratitude, his son Midas dedicated the ox-cart[1] to the Phrygian god Sabazios (whom the Greeks identified with Zeus) and tied it to a post with an intricate knot of cornel bark (Cornus mas). The knot was later described by Roman historian Quintus Curtius Rufus as comprising "several knots all so tightly entangled that it was impossible to see how they were fastened".[2]
The ox-cart still stood in the palace of the former kings of Phrygia at Gordium in the fourth century BC when Alexander the Great arrived, at which point Phrygia had been reduced to a satrapy, or province, of the Persian Empire. An oracle had declared that any man who could unravel its elaborate knots was destined to become ruler of all of Asia.[2] Alexander the Great wanted to untie the knot but struggled to do so. He then reasoned that it would make no difference how the knot was loosed, so he drew his sword and sliced it in half with a single stroke. |
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Date: July 26th, 2021 12:16 AM Author: Razzmatazz box office “Alexander wept when he heard Anaxarchus discourse about an infinite number of worlds, and when his friends inquired what ailed him, ‘Is it not worthy of tears,’ he said, ‘that, when the number of worlds is infinite, we have not yet become lords of a single one?'” (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4885696&forum_id=2#42842044) |
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Date: July 26th, 2021 12:18 AM Author: Razzmatazz box office "And now, wishing to consult the god concerning the expedition against Asia, he went to Delphi; and since he chanced to come on one of the inauspicious days, when it is not lawful to deliver oracles, in the first place he sent a summons to the prophetess. And when she refused to perform her office and cited the law in her excuse, he went up himself and tried to drag her to the temple, whereupon, as if overcome by his ardour, she said: 'Thou are invincible, my son!' On hearing this, Alexander said he desired no further prophecy, but had from her the oracle which he wanted." (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4885696&forum_id=2#42842050) |
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Date: July 26th, 2021 12:22 AM Author: Mahogany pervert boiling water (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4885696&forum_id=2#42842076) |