What do you k ow about Alexander The Great and what do you think of him
They say he was the greatest general to ever live , The Macedonian king . I have to say from seeing how vast he made his short lived empire I have to agree
I know he had a giant Mastiff named Peritas as a pet dog. Supposedly Peritas changed history by biting an elephant! Peritas also fought lions!
Alexander the Great rode ONE horse throughout all of his campaigns. The horse was named Bucephalas. Alexander the great was a young boy when he first acquired him. His father, Phillip the 2nd, is the one who first spotted the horse.
"Bucephalus stood out among the horses, causing Phillip II to inquire about the horse; the horse dealer quoted an enormous price for the horse. Phillip directed his men to mount the horse.
Each attendant failed; Bucephalus would spin, buck, and dodge when anyone attempted to mount him. Phillip ordered the horse removed and began to walk away when his son Alexander requested the horse. He told his father he could ride Bucephalus.
King Phillips attendants were experienced horsemen and knew how to handle them. King Phillip believed his young son was foolish to suggest that he could ride Bucephalus when his men failed.
Alexander persisted and even offered to pay for the horse if he failed to tame him. He reluctantly agreed to allow Alexander a chance to ride the horse.
Alexander understood horses were prey animals and some feared shadows, so he walked around the horse and gently placed his hands on the horse, whispering calmly and letting the horse see his shadow.
Once he felt the horse was comfortable, he turned him to the sun so he didn’t see his shadow and then gently eased into the saddle. Bucephalus stood erect and waited for instructions from his confident rider.
Alexander worked the horse from a walk to a trot, then moved into a gallop and full run. Alexander rode the horse for nearly twenty years until Bucephalus’s death from wounds he suffered in Alexander’s last battle in 326 BC.
During Alexander’s reign, he captured and renamed more than 60 cities, all after himself except one; he named after his horse Bucephalus."
I have done some readings in Medieval Latin, and I have discovered that during the Middle Ages, Alexander the Great was a legendary figure in a lot of stories. Scholars refer to the "Alexandran Romance."
There are all sort of fantastical stories about him.
In one, which details his exploits in India, he and his soldiers discover precious gems growing on vines, and houses made of gold.
In another, he wants to learn what kind of creatures dwell on the bottom of the sea. So he enters what we might call a bathosphere, and his men on the shore drag it with ropes, while he is pulled along the sea bottom. What does he discover down there? Lions and tigers, and other animals just like those on the earths' surface, are walking around on the bottom of the ocean!
In that same story, he builds a flying device with wings so he can soar above the earth and survey the land.
He became much "larger than life" in Medieval literature.
@DrWatson Cute! Medieval monks may have been extremely bored...🤣. When I was reading about his dog, Peritas, they said that every amazing exploit of every dog from Ancient times has been attributed to Peritas! 🤣
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I don’t k ow anything about him and I wouldn’t do him
@DrWatson Didn’t Alexander sack the libraries in Persia and steal what they wanted and burn the rest of the library down? I think that’s how they got so much credited to the Greeks.
He and his army sacked Tyre, which was the headquarters of the Phoenicians, a Caananite group that got wealthy as sea traders on the Mediterranean. Didn’t destroy them though, they just moved their boats and headquarters up to where present-day Venice is.
Iron Maiden made a song about him. Says everything you need to know about him. Kinda a little history lesson set to metal [media=][media=https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1oTEQf1d9Iw]
