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About boring thing
Kimmo Huosionmaa
When we are making analyzes of the some Alexander the Great's national politics in the antique world, somebody thinks that is boring. But when we are concentrating on the military politics of ancient Macedonia, will that give us the key, how the conflicts were creating in that time. In this kind of situation, we must realize, that this great military leader was looking for his enemies far away, but he should look them inside his palace.
I don't know how many true battles has this iconic creature ever win, and how much of his glory has been made by other leaders and their poets and historians. The things what happened in the battles are only one thing about the life of this man, who died of poisoning at the age of 33 at Babylon.
In that time the truth about the battles was, what the writers or their payroll payers wanted, and if some writer had different opinions about those leaders, their head would cut off by the sword. So in the real life, the real Alexander the Great had very little connection between the person, who was as the main character of the books, what were written about him. When we are thinking about life and death of this war leader, we must say, that this man had very good preparations for his mission.
The priests were told him that he was the choice of the gods, and of course, there were many things, what gave Alexander the self-esteem to accomplish his mission. But when this man came back from his war, he has faced the situation, that his enemies were conquered his palace. One reason, why this man was probably murdered, was his way to use alcohol.
When he was drunk, this man was violent and could use his sword against his friends. That feeds the anger against Alexander. While he was young, this man saw very much violence, when his father killed one family member. And his way to drink caused the situation, where Alexander lost his memory. The guards might also kill his friends, and claimed that Alexander was guilty about those things, by giving orders to make those things or taking the sword by himself and striking his friends.
And that made him unstable against his friends, and agitators used those killings against his personality. There were many more people in those parties, and maybe Alexander and his friends were violent against them. And maybe somebody invented that the chef will be the next one who would be sacrificed and this man gave lethal poison to the king. So were the parties the reason, why that man was killed by poisonous vegetable like ricin. What is painless and very lethal poison, what will find in the plant, what has the same name than that poison. This poison denies the work of mitochondria, and it might cause death in very small doses.
Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_the_Great
Picture 1
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/AlexanderTheGreat_Bust.jpg/300px-AlexanderTheGreat_Bust.jpg
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