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Originally posted by Aelia Jusa:
And Macedonia, because Philip and Alexander were such amazing men, and achieved so much. I always wonder if Philip hadn't been assassinated, what he could have done in Asia.
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He probably wouldn't have been an obsessive compulsive waraholic like his son, and may have known when to stop invading, and start consolidating.
Sorry, I just don't believe Alexander the destroyer should be called "The Great". He destroyed a nation that took generations to build, and his own replacement 'Empire' did not last after his short life. Homer, Plato, Pericles, and even Philip, all contributed to human culture. Alexander was a destroyer of culture.