Alexander: Creator or Destroyer?

[Alita]

True, Greeks never liked playing Follow the Leader, even if that leader is Alexander.

[Alita]

Originally Posted by Kuniska

Πιστεύω ότι αν είχε πάρει Ελληνίδα γυναίκα και δε Λακεδαίμονα θα μπορούσε να τον συγκρατήσει

Poly wraio ayto!

[akritas_gs]

Originally Posted by Alita

True, Greeks never liked playing Follow the Leader, even if that leader is Alexander.

Greeks never follow the leader, even when they do in the end they just stop.

[Alita]

San auto to Sabbatokyriako, 2,362 years ago, eggenh8h apanw sth gh mas o Megas Alexandros.

Opoios apo sas yiortazei ta genne8lia tou/ths auto to Sabbatokyriako, eiste se poly kalh parea. Xronia polla!

[Mygdonia]

If ALexander returned to Greece in health he would have no doubt conquered the West as well.. his great great great great grand neice Cleopatra almost did it.
The wealth the Hellenistic empire accumulated was phenomenal.

[Lyssius]

Not much of it wen't back to greece though, he kept alot of it in susa and babylon... in addition, I think people are forgetting he didn't keep the greeks around for long, just after the Granikos he sent them home again

[Ehetlaios]

Originally Posted by Lyssius

Not much of it wen't back to greece though, he kept alot of it in susa and babylon... in addition, I think people are forgetting he didn't keep the greeks around for long, just after the Granikos he sent them home again

[Alita]

Lyssius, care to tell us some more about yourself? Some of your points are on the enigmatic side, to say the least. Where are you from?

[Lyssius]

Oh, i'm only really qualified to speak as somone who's studied alexander for some time. I just think he's somtimes over-glorified, while his very human nature goes unnoticed.

[Paulos Melas]

Alexander completed and perfected Hellenism. From scattered city-states and two archaic greek kingdoms-macedonia, and epirus- he created a nation: The greek nation.
Alexander gave the opportunity to Hellenism to radiate.
Such was the strenth of what was created from Alexander that when the romans conquered the east nothing stopped. We never spoken for roman civilisation but we speak for graeco-roman civilisation.
The Alexander world assimilated the Romans as well, the greek remained the lingua franca of the east for a millenium.
And when the western lands that never received the benefits of alexandrian influence couldn t follow the development of the east Constantine the great created constatinople, the new rome, and as such the greek empire of late antiquity and middle ages, the Byzantine empire was born
So Alexander s legacy gave birth to Byzantium, the radiant greek empire who offered so much to christianity to art and letters and to hellenism.
And thanks to byzantium the greeks we survived the dark ages of the barbarian turkish occupation, and after 400 years of slavery we reborn our state upon our birth lands.
Without Alexander the greeks we would have followed the doom of egyptians, babylonians, and romans: the extinction through the ages.
Nonetheless what alexander did for us is to create this necessary frame and intitiate all those evolvements so that the greeks to constitute today the oldest nation surviving intact in Europe.