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“No man, and only one hero, had been called invincible before him, and then only by a poet, but the hero was Heracles, ancestor of the Macedonian kings.”

Robin Lane Fox

Source: Alexander the Great, 1973, p.71

“It was the Delphi of the Greek East and as a Hellene, not as Pharaoh, Alexander would be curious…”

Robin Lane Fox

Source: Alexander the Great, 1973, p.204

“To his ancestors (to a Persian's ancestors) Macedonians were only known as 'yona takabara', the 'Greeks who wear shields on their heads', an allusion to their broad-brimmed hats.”

Robin Lane Fox

Source: Alexander the Great, 1973, p.104

“Olympia's royal ancestry traced back to the hero Achilles, and the blood of Helen of Troy was believed to run on her father's side.”

Robin Lane Fox

Source: Alexander the Great, 1973, p.44

“Alexander was recognized as a son of Zeus after his visit.”

Robin Lane Fox

Source: Alexander the Great, 1973, p.201

“As for the hired Greeks in Persian service, thousands of the dead were to be buried, but the prisoners were bound in fetters and sent to hard labour in Macedonia, 'because they had fought as Greeks against Greeks, on behalf of barbarians, contrary to the common decrees of the Greek allies.”

Robin Lane Fox

Source: Alexander the Great, 1973, p.123

Robin Lane Fox Quotes about God

“He was still in a world of Greek gods and sacrifices, of Greek plays and Greek language, though the natives might speak Greek with a northern accent which hardened 'ch' into 'g','th' into 'd' and pronounced King Philip as Bilip.”

Robin Lane Fox

Source: Alexander the Great, 1973, p.30

“Alexander was not the first Greek to be honoured as a god for political favour…”

Robin Lane Fox

Source: Alexander the Great, 1973, p.131

“The occasion was not lost on Alexander: at Susa, he sacrificed to Greek gods and held Greek gymnastic games…”

Robin Lane Fox

Source: Alexander the Great, 1973, p.253

Robin Lane Fox Quotes

“Philip's mother had been a Lyncestian noblewoman" - "rebellious kings of Lyncestis who traced their origins to the notorious Bacchiad kings of Greek Corinth.”

Robin Lane Fox

Source: Alexander the Great, 1973, p.32

“War", Philip had announced, "was being declared against the Persians on behalf of the Greeks, to punish the barbarians for their lawless treatment of the old Greek temples.”

Robin Lane Fox

Source: Alexander the Great, 1973, p.92

“In spirit, Alexander made a gesture to the Lydians' sensitivities, though his Greek crusade owed them nothing as they were not Greeks.”

Robin Lane Fox

Source: Alexander the Great, 1973, p.128

“Among the conservative Greek opinion there would be no regrets that Alexander the Greek leader was invading the barbarians.”

Robin Lane Fox

Source: Alexander the Great, 1973, p.101

“Alexander son of Philip and the Greeks, except the Spartans…, as Sparta did not consider it to be her fathers' practice to follow, but to lead.”

Robin Lane Fox

Source: Alexander the Great, 1973, p.123

“In return he left behind Darius's mother, daughters and the son whom he had captured at Issus, and appointed teachers to teach them the Greek language.”

Robin Lane Fox

Source: Alexander the Great, 1973, p.254

“But Alexander was stressing his link with Achilles… Achilles was also a stirring Greek hero, useful for a Macedonian king whose Greek ancestry did not stop Greeks from calling him a barbarian.”

Robin Lane Fox

Source: Alexander the Great, 1973, p.60

“Supported the belief that he was the Greek gos Zeus's son.”

Robin Lane Fox

Source: Alexander the Great, 1973, p.214

“Alexander was still the Greek avenger of Persian sacrilege who told his troops, it was said 'that Persepolis was the most hateful city in the world'. On the road there, he met with the families of Greeks who had deported to Persia by previous kings, and true to his slogan, he honoured them conspicuously, giving them money, five changes of clothing, farm animals, corn, a free passage home, and exemption from taxes and bureaucratic harassments.”

Robin Lane Fox

Source: Alexander the Great, 1973, p.256

“The Macedonian kings, who maintained that their Greek ancestry traced back to Zeus, had long given homes and patronage to Greece's most distinguished artists.”

Robin Lane Fox

Source: Alexander the Great, 1973, p.48

“When his Macedonians mutinied at the end of their marching, they were said to have ridiculed him and told him to 'go fight alone with his father', meaning Zeus, not Philip.”

Robin Lane Fox

Source: Alexander the Great, 1973, p.216

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