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Otto
11-28-2005, 10:09 PM
Alexander had started out as a crusader, to avenge the invasion and the destruction of the precious buildings of Greece, but later had as his goal the extension of Hellenic ways of life throughout his empire. In this he succeeded. Greek democratic liberty-freedom to think and to speak, and the duty of the individual to take his share in the government of his city was instituted wherever he became master.

Alexander the Great: Results of his conquests (http://www.hackneys.com/alex_web/alexfram.htm)

akritas
06-06-2006, 02:25 PM
Πλούταρχος, "Περί Αλεξάνδρου Τύχης ή Αρετής", Αρετής Λόγος Α' 12:
Plutarch, Alexander's Merits,SpeechA,12

"Αλέξανδρος δε, Φιλοξένου του της παραλίας υπάρχου γράψαντος, ότι παίς εν Ιωνία γέγονεν οίος ουκ άλλος ώραν και είδος, και πυνθανομένου δια των γραμμάτων ει αναπέμψη, πικρώς αντέγραψεν ω κάκιστ' ανθρώπων, τι μοι πώποτε τοιούτο συνέγνως, ίνα τοιαύταις με κολακεύσης ηδοναίς;"

[Alexandros, when Filoxenos wrote to him, the consul (governor) of the coast(beach), that it exists in Ionia a young person (pajs) where, similar in his beauty never born before, and asked to was informed with letter, if wanted to send to him, Alexandros wrote answering strictly (bitterly): "Villain from all the persons, you learned that I have been mixed never with such thinks, in order to adulate me with such type vicarious pleasures ?].

These quote is the only written source by ancient writer for the supposing Homosexuality. All the others are arbitrary interpretations