Sit44

June 2012

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re: Alexander II "the Great"

As stated, he became known to history in the Western world as "the Great" - he conquered a very large (aka great) empire, even if the vast majority of it was the Achaemenid Persian empire, was "great" due to his military genius, and due to the Alexander myth about his so-called unity of all men, the appendage "great" was given to him. You are correct that in light of modern scholarship, a bloodthirsty megalomaniac who conquered and destroyed for sheer plunder and self-aggrandizement, who damaged Asian civilization in many areas, who caused untold misery and death to huge numbers of people, whose ideas of Greek superiority were absurd and set up no constructive, viable government in the areas he conquered which led to further bloodshed in the wars of his successors would not pass as "great." But if the article is written properly from Reliable Sources, the reader should be able to see the 'good' and 'bad' traits of Alexander and his empire.HammerFilmFan (talk) 15:56, 1 November 2012 (UTC)